The Museum of Natural and Cultural History, tucked behind the University of Oregon Law School, receives a little over half its operating budget from the university.
As budget cuts swept across campus in the fall, the museum’s capacity and behind the scenes operations were more impacted than the public facing parts of the museum. The museum, which opened in its current iteration in 1935, gives students a wide variety of unique opportunities such as education and job training, Lexie Briggs, marketing director for the museum, said.
“We have thousands of students who come through and do all kinds of learning experiences,” Briggs said. “(For example,) you’re in a geology class, so you come to the museum and you look at the rocks and the history of the geological formations of Oregon and fill out some worksheets (for) intensive studies.”…