On June 26, 2009, ex-Tektronix employees Stan Griffiths and Ed Sinclair incorporated vintageTEK as a 501(c)(3) charitable, educational, and scientific museum. Their mission: to commemorate the early history of Tektronix, Inc. and its extraordinary role in spawning approximately 300 high-technology companies in the Silicon Forest — the four-county, two-state metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon.
Today the museum holds thousands of pieces of historic equipment dating back to 1946, along with an estimated 3.9 million pages of documentation including user manuals, service materials, and microfiche archives. Our volunteer engineers continue to restore classic instruments for future display, and we even loan equipment for short-term educational use.
In January 2017, thanks to the generosity of Tektronix, the museum relocated to Building 13 on the Beaverton campus — the former site of the Ceramics operation — giving us the space to properly showcase this remarkable technological heritage.