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Oregon high culture

Yes, there is some. Check out the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where you can see five plays in a summer weekend; the Oregon Bach Festival in July in Eugene, bringing German Bach choral interpreter Helmuth Rilling to the city's Hult Center; and check out the Portland Art Museum year round for a variety of contemporary and historical exhibits.

Check out some of the state's other museums. One of the best is the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem.

Oregon has a lot of artists, whose work can be seen in galleries in Portland and Eugene. And there are lots of books and movies about the state. A little known fact is that poet Richard Brautigan grew up in Eugene.

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