Stark´s Vacuum Cleaner Museum

97322 Portland, OR, United States of America (USA) (Oregon )

Stark’s Vacuum Museum (Mai 2019):
Proudly mounted on a wall of our downtown showroom, the Stark’s Vacuum Museum is a one of its kind! Renovated in 2017, the Museum boasts more than just old vacuums. We have built a vacuum history timeline so you can learn about the history of the vacuum cleaner! We have 25 of the most iconic and loved vacuums in history.

Come check out these fascinating machines that show the progression of the vacuum cleaner from the beginning. The museum is open during our regular store hours, and admission is free.

By Chelsea Cain
Stark’s Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service in downtown Portland sells sleek Dirt Devils and sturdy Hoovers, but the thing that will really suck you in is its vacuum museum.
The walls of a long, well-lit room are stacked with models of vacuums, from durable wooden devices made in the 1800s to chic, space-age cleaners from the 1960s. The gray industrial carpet is, of course, spotless.

The 300 vacuums in the collection were donated, traded in, or sent by people who had heard about Stark’s museum and just couldn’t bear to scrap their grandmother’s old Electrolux. Highlights include the two-person-operated Busy-Bee (he pumped, she vacuumed) and the Duntley Pneumatic. The salesman would attach it to the ceiling and do chin-ups from it to demonstrate its air-pump suction seal.

“Chin-ups is about all it was good for,” says shop manager Ted Burk.

Burk, who’s been at Stark’s since he took a “temporary” job repairing vacuums for the family-owned store 35 years ago, is happy to answer questions and play guide. “Today people go to Kmart, spend $60 on a vacuum, use it a few months, and then toss it,” he laments.

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