The clock both days share
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo holds its Portland stop on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026. Halls C-D-E at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, carry the show. The organiser's FAQ prints one weekend clock: doors open at 10 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. on both days. Seven hours sit in each day and fourteen in the weekend.
The venue's event page carries the dates, the three halls and the street address, and prints no door time. Ask the venue to confirm the hour before a group builds a day around it.
One ticket buys one day
A ticket covers a single day. The FAQ prints the rule: the ticket is valid until scanned, it works on either day, and it will not work on both. A visitor who wants both days buys two tickets.
Day-of admission is $20 at the door. The door takes cash and credit. Children aged 12 and under enter free and need no ticket.
The class menu runs on the circuit
Six classes run on the USA and Canada circuit in 2026. Two are taxidermy and fill the day from opening to four in the afternoon: an opossum class and a raccoon class. Two run the morning, 10 a.m. to noon: a sunset moth class and an octopus and tentacle globe wet specimen class. Two run the afternoon, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: a scorpion habitat class and a ratalope coffin taxidermy class.
Each class price carries admission to the expo floor for the day of the class. A student holds one class ticket and no separate entry ticket.
The organiser states that class options vary by city and by day, and that each city's ticket page lists which classes run. No page assigns a class to a Portland day. Treat the six-class menu as the circuit menu, and read the Portland ticket listing for the day split.
Two age rules bound the class list. Students under 13 are barred from the taxidermy workshops. A student under 16 needs a guardian to buy a ticket and sit alongside, and the organiser requires emailed approval from the instructor before that ticket is bought. An unapproved student is turned away at the door with no refund.
Students arrive 15 minutes before the start. For a 10 a.m. class that places arrival at 9:45, a quarter of an hour ahead of the published door time. The organiser states that late students lose the time and that class tickets do not refund, because hides and supplies are prepared in advance.
Day one as a class day
A full-day taxidermy class takes six of the seven show hours. The floor stays open from 4 p.m. to the 5 p.m. close, which leaves one hour.
A morning class costs two hours and returns five hours on the floor, from noon to 5 p.m. An afternoon class splits the day. Three and a half hours run from the 10 a.m. door to the 1:30 start, and ninety minutes sit between the 3:30 finish and the close.
Day two at full length
Both days carry the same seven-hour window, so a general admission ticket gives the floor from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The venue's event description lists the hall contents as hand-selected vendors, artists and small businesses: taxidermy, preserved specimens, original artwork, horror and Halloween pieces, antiques, handcrafted oddities, clothing, jewellery, skulls and bones, and funeral collectibles.
Pace the second day against the first. A visitor whose class falls on the opening day starts the second with the full seven hours on the floor.
The re-entry stamp and the bag search
The door issues a hand stamp on arrival, and the stamp allows re-entry during show hours. Bags are searched on every entry, so a mid-day exit and return brings two searches. Large bags are allowed and searched before entry. Costumes are welcome, with a bag or quick costume search at the door and no realistic weapons.
Where dinner fits
The seven-hour window holds no published meal break. Dinner sits after the 5 p.m. close on both days.
Food and drink concessions run inside the hall for purchase. A visitor who wants to eat within the window buys from a stand and keeps the floor time. A visitor who wants a sit-down meal leaves on the stamp, returns before the 5 p.m. close and takes the bag search on the way back in.
On the class day the 4 p.m. finish leaves one hour on the floor, so book dinner from 5 p.m.
The two-day bill
Two days at the door cost $40 for one adult. A class ticket folds that day's admission into the class price, so a class day plus a second floor day carries the class price plus one $20 ticket. Children aged 12 and under add nothing on either day.
Class prices sit with the city ticket listing. The class page and the FAQ print the clocks, the age rules and the includes-admission line, and print no price.
Four things to settle before the weekend. Confirm which class runs on which Portland day. Buy the second day's ticket at the door for $20. Set a 9:45 arrival against a 10 a.m. class. Book dinner for after 5 p.m.