The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, about 20 minutes west of downtown Portland. The Rice NW Museum is home to the "Alma Rose" Rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine in Alma, Colorado. The museum also boasts the largest opal-filled thunderegg in the world, crystalized gold bigger than your hand, dinosaur eggs and fossils, en extensive metorite collection, and hundreds of other attractions. The Rice Museum has become nationally recognized. It is the finest rocks and minerals museum in the Pacific Northwest, and one of the best in the nation.

        The museum facility (Richard and Helen Rice Residence) is listed on the National Historic Registry and recognized for its unique architectural style, as well as its use of natural stone on the interior and exterior, and the extraordinary woodwork throughout, all of native Oregon woods. The facility can be rented for private events such as weddings, birthday parties, banquets, and family reunions, as well as corporate meetings and business events. Schools throughout Oregon and Washington regularly include the Rice NW Museum in their annual field trip lineup, and parents are encouraged to come tour the faciity along with their children's school group.