Turns out the Portland Art Museum can party.

One sculpture was broken and someone set off smoke alarms from vaping in the bathroom at the museum’s grand reopening celebration, a four-day, free-admission extravaganza that welcomed 30,000 guests to the newly renovated downtown campus.

The party fouls caused two evacuations of the museum.

“These incidents did cause minor and brief disruptions to the opening weekend, and the museum is taking measures to prevent similar issues in the future,” said museum spokesman Ian Gillingham in a statement. “We’re grateful to our visitors for their patience and understanding.”

The vaping incident occurred the evening of Nov. 20 in a first-floor restroom. That’s the day PAM first welcomed guests back to the museum after a $111 million project that adde

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