Fourteen hours on the published clock
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo holds Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026 in Halls C-D-E at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland. The organiser's FAQ gives one clock for both days. Doors open at 10 a.m. They close at 5 p.m. That is seven hours a day and 14 hours across the weekend.
The organiser's schedule page reads 40 cities across the US, Canada and Australia for 2026. Portland takes one weekend of that calendar. The convention center lists the booking as a ticketed public event.
The only published crowd number is a safety threshold
Neither published page carries an attendance forecast. The venue event page carries the dates, the halls and the hours. The organiser's site carries the tour calendar, the ticket terms and the class schedule. A projected turnout appears on none of them.
The nearest published number is a staffing trigger, and the venue owns it. The Oregon Convention Center stations an Emergency Medical Technician on site during events with attendance over 1,000, or when the venue deems the presence appropriate for attendee safety. A planner can hold that figure as the only stated crowd threshold on the weekend.
Whether the organiser expects Portland to clear 1,000 is unpublished. The expo prints no forecast. The venue page prints none either.
What the ticket says about the crowd
Door tickets cost $20. The organiser accepts cash and credit at the door, and advance purchase is optional. A ticket stays valid until it is scanned. It works on either day and will not work on both, so a visitor who wants the full weekend buys twice.
Children 12 and under enter free and need no ticket. Paid scans therefore land below the head count. One adult arriving with two children produces one $20 sale and three people in the hall. A demand read taken from ticket scans alone misses that gap, and the venue's 1,000 figure counts the people.
Re-entry runs on a hand stamp. Bags are searched every time a visitor comes back through the door. Each return repeats a bag check.
Classes price separately. The organiser states that a class ticket includes admission to the expo, so a class sale carries a hall entry with it.
The classes hold people inside the building
The organiser's class page lists six formats for the 2026 US and Canada tour. The Opossum Taxidermy class and the Raccoon Taxidermy class each run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Sunset Moth Entomology class and the Octopus & Tentacle Globe Wet Specimen class run 10 a.m. to noon. The Scorpion Habitat Entomology class and the Ratalope Coffin Taxidermy class run 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The organiser states that class options vary by city and day. Portland's own class list is not on any page read here, and class sizes are unpublished.
Those bookings behave differently from a day ticket. A taxidermy student sits in the building for six of the seven public hours. A morning entomology student holds a hall ticket for the first two hours of the day.
Classes meet in different places. The organiser states that some meet inside the hall and some meet in a meeting room near it, and asks students to arrive at least 15 minutes before the start. Morning class traffic reaches the door before the 10 a.m. open.
Three halls and a flat price
The organiser runs an all-ages show and admits children 12 and under free. Door price is the same $20 for every adult. The organiser books curated vendors within a dark, strange and odd theme, and states that it accepts no direct-sale or franchise companies. The venue's event page describes the merchandise as taxidermy, preserved specimens, original artwork, horror and Halloween pieces, antiques, handcrafted oddities, clothing, jewelry, skulls, bones and funeral collectibles, all legal to own and sustainably sourced.
The published pricing offers one line to work with, which is the 12-and-under entry. A single $20 rate carries no early-bird tier and no weekend pass.
Two numbers to carry
The 14 open hours and the 1,000-attendance EMT trigger are the two published figures that read on this weekend. Both come from a source a planner can cite. The expo's own projected turnout and its class capacity stay unpublished, so a demand model built on this weekend carries both gaps in the open.