Riverside, California

Historic House

S. C. Evans' Early Home in Riverside, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Rancho Cordova, California

Children's, Science, Specialized

We are a non-profit children's museum with all hands-on exhibits for children 0-8 years old. Our goal is to create a community that values and instills in children independence, confidence, and the love for learning in a hands-on environment where childhood is respected, nurtured, and celebrated. We want to help children understand and enjoy the world around them in which they live.

Williams, California

History, Historical Society

Sacramento Valley Museum in Williams, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Lake Forest, California

Historical Society

Salinas, California

Art

Salinas Community Center in Salinas, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Red Bluff, California

San Anselmo, California

History

San Anselmo Historical Museum in San Anselmo, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Hollister, California

History

San Benito Co. Hist. Soc. Museum in San Juan Bautista, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Apple Valley, California

Anthropology, Archaeology, Children's, Culture, History, Historical Society, Natural History, Nature Centers, Science

The Victor Valley Museum is a branch of the San Bernardino County Museum and maintains and develops unique cultural and natural science collections related to the High Desert.

Ventura, California

Historic House

San Buenaventura Mission Museum in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

San Pedro, California

History, Military

The SS Lane Victory was built during WWII to transport cargo. There were 534 Victory ships built, and this is the only one on display in the world.

Red Bluff, California

Children's, Natural History, Nature Centers

The Red Bluff Recreation Area and the Sacramento River Discovery Center are the best kept secrets around. The 488 acre area is located on the banks of the Sacramento River by the Red Bluff Diversion Dam just south of Red Bluff, CA. Our mission is to promote stewardship of the Sacramento River watershed which has been identified as one of the 200 most diverse ecosystems in the world that must be preserved. We are housed in a temporary building, and are developing a capitol campaign to build a straw bale permanent building which contains all recycled materials to demonstrate our commitment to a sustainable future where our use of natural resources doesn't deny these resources for future generations.

Sacramento, California

Zoo

Sacramento Zoo in Sacramento, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Moraga, California

Art, Culture, Library, University

The Hearst Art Galley is known for diverse, museum-quality exhibitions, publications and educational programs. The Gallery has over 2000 works in its permanent collection. Temporary exhibitions of contemporary, ethnographic and international subjects.

La Jolla, California

Science

Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Samoa, California

History, Historic House

Every large or small logging or mill operation in the redwood country had a cookhouse. It was the hub of life in the temporary community, if it was in the woods. If it was located in a substantial settlement, it served as a "community center". If the cookhouse was set up to serve fifteen or twenty men in a shingle bolt camp, often a woman and her husband, with a helper or two called bullcooks, flunkeys or cookees, handled the cooking and serving. If the boarders numbered in the hundreds, a staff of dozens of men and women carried the demands of the task. "Come and get it!" was a familiar cry heard by millmen and brawney-armed longshoremen at the Hammond Lumber Company cookhouse - now the Louisiana-Pacific Samoa Cookhouse - at the beginning of the century.

Hollister, California

Art

San Benito Co. Arts. Comm. in Hollister, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Redlands, California

Anthropology, Culture, General, History, Natural History

The largest museum in inland Southern California, the San Bernardino County Museum has three floors of exhibits where visitors experience the natural and cultural history of inland Southern California: archaeology and anthropology, minerals, fossils, history, and the natural sciences, including North American mammals and an outstanding collection of birds and eggs. Changing exhibits focus on specimens and artifacts from museum collections and exciting new discoveries about the cultural and scientific heritage of our southwest. The Exploration Station live animal gallery is a favorite of children and families. Outdoor exhibits include native plant and cactus gardens, a steam locomotive and caboose, mining and lumbering equipment, heritage orange groves, and sculpture.

Ventura, California

Anthropology, Archaeology, Church, Culture, History, Historic House

The founding of San Buenaventura Mission was foreshadowed well over two centuries ago on the Spanish isle of Mallorca, when a devout Franciscan priest, who was a brilliant scholar and professor of theology, earnestly prayed that he might be permitted to forsake his comfortable circumstances to take up the Lord’s work among the aborigines in the New World. The hoped-for answer to his prayers came on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1749.

San Diego, California

General, History, Library, Military, Science, Specialized

The San Diego Aerospace Museum was the first aviation museum to be accredited by the American Association of Museums and is considered one of the top five aviation and space museums in the nation.
Its mission - celebrate, educate, and inspire - guides the Museum in its goal to encourage involvement in aerospace by discovering the history of achievements in this field. The Museum's 100+ aircraft and spacecraft, thousands of artifacts, world-class archives, and nationaly-acclaimed education programs