Complete List of California Themeparks for the 2025 Season

175 Themeparks Found in California

Ableza’s Native American Virtual Cultural Center

San Jose

Through web-casting, cultures of the Western Hemisphere's Indigenous Peoples comes alive. The site's contents are produced by, for, and about the rich and diverse heritages of Native American Peoples. Ableza is a Native American Arts & Film Institute. One of its many programs is the Native American Virtual Cultural Center. The"Center"was launched October 12 (Indigenous People's Day,) 1998.

Agua Caliente Cultural Museum

Palm Spring

The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum inspires people to learn about the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and other Native cultures. We keep the spirit alive through exhibitions, collections, research, and educational programs.

American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts

Napa

Opening 2001--a new museum and cultural center under construction in Napa, CA. Exploring wine and food as an expression of American culture, through the arts and humanities.

American Military Museum

South El Monte

The American Society of Military History is dedicated to preserving the rich history provided by the vehicles that the military has used. The museum is located in the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in South El Monte, CA. The museum has been preserving the history provided by vehicles since 1962 as a California Non-Profit Educational Organization. The museum holds an important...

American Museums’ Representational Art Exhibitions

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Angels Attic

Santa Monica

Welcome to Angels Attic Museum, founded in 1984. Our Queen Anne Victorian was built in 1895, and has been restored to the period. In rescuing one of the two last Victorians in Santa Monica, we have preserved an important part of our heritage, put the building to new use, added to the cultural advantages of the city and up-graded the...

Antelope Valley Indian Museum

Lancaster

The artifacts represented in the Antelope Valley Indian Museum's electronic catalog show the avid if sometimes idiosyncratic interests of the original collectors. Many of the objects were acquired in the early twentieth century by enthusiasts rather than scholars and before current standards of archaeological provenance and record keeping were established. Most of the objects in the Antelope Valley Indian Museum...

Arnisto Gallery

Oakland

Contemporary artist Arnold Chao offers fine art original oil paintings andoriginal art reproductions for emerging art collectors in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in corporate art rentals and company art consultation. Based in his Northern California art studio, he's exhibited his abstract paintings and contemporary artwork throughout California in fine art museums and art galleries for over 12 years and has...

Autry Museum of Western Heritage

Los Angeles

The Autry is an intercultural history center dedicated to exploring and sharing the stories, experiences, and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West. Located in Griffith Park, the Autry’s collection of over 500,000 pieces of art and artifacts, which includes the collection of the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, is one of the largest and most significant...

Bay Area Discovery Museum

Sausalito

The Bay Area Discovery Museum is a one-of-a-kind indoor and outdoor children's museum at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, serving over 300,000 visitors per year on its 7.5 acre Sausalito campus. The Museum is the only children’s museum in the U.S. to be located in a national park, and its exhibits are admired and emulated by other children’s...

Bay Area Museum of Broadcast Arts

Berkeley

Celebrating the rich history of radio and television broadcasting in the San Francisco Bay Area in words, pictures and sound. More than 100 years of audio recordings, photographs and documents from Bay Area broadcasting stations, including many of the region's legendary performers.

Beall Center for Art and Technology

Irvine

The mission of the Beall Center is to support research and exhibitions that explore new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, and thus, promote new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies. The Beall Center aspires to redefine the museum/gallery experience, both in content and form, formulating answers to the questions of how technology can be used effectively,...

Bear Flag Museum

Sacramento

The Bear Flag Museum is the inspiration of William J. (“Bill”) Trinkle, a California attorney and member of the North American Vexillological Association (“NAVA”) since 1994. NAVA is a group devoted to the serious study of flags from a multidisciplinary view.

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive

Berkeley

The mission of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is to inspire the imagination and ignite critical dialogue through art and film. The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley. Through art and film programs, collections and research resources, we aspire to be locally connected and...

Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad Company

Los Gatos

The BJWRR is known world wide - its story appearing in many magazines and newspapers. A record company recorded the sounds of "Old Number 2" and a song "The Ballad of Billy Jones" was written and sung by young people of Los Gatos. Most important, however, is the joy that this railroad continues to give to the young and young...

Bolinas Museum

Bolinas

From the beginning, the Bolinas Museum has been nurtured by generous supporters and the volunteers who contribute their time, money and diverse skills to make this Museum such a success. Families and individuals donate historic material to be preserved for posterity and invited artists have contributed exceptional works. Donations, whether as major donors, single memberships or a dollar in the...

Bonita Museum & Cultural Center

Bonita

The Museum was established as a 1987 Bonitafest event and was originally located in a storefront along Bonita Road. In 1992, through the generosity of the Bonita-Sunnyside Fire Protection District, the Museum moved into the old fire house located at 4035 Bonita Road. In 2006, thanks to the County of San Diego and the Bonita community, the Museum moved to it’s permanent location at...

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art

Santa Ana

Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of California's finest and Orange County's largest museums. In 1986, the museum closed its doors for a period of self-study. In response to community needs and input, it reopened in 1992 as a new cultural center, and expanded...

Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia

Burlingame

We hope you enjoy your visit to the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia. If you are traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area, we invite you to visit! We are located just ten minutes south from the San Francisco International Airport.

California Academy of Sciences

San Francisco

Welcome to the Academy – the only place on the planet with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof. It’s a stunning architectural achievement with hundreds of unique exhibits and nearly 40,000 live animals.

California African-American Museum

Los Angeles

The California African American Museum began formal operation in 1989 housed in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry. The current facility in Exposition Park was built with State and private funds for $5 million. Designed by African American architects, Jack Haywood and the late Vince Proby, the Museum facility opened its doors tot the public during...

California Hall of Fame

Sacramento

The California Museum, along with former First Lady Maria Shriver, created the California Hall of Fame to recognize legendary Californians who have influenced the state, the nation and the world.

California Heritage Museum

Santa Monica

The building that houses the California Heritage Museum’s exhibits is as interesting and unique as the exhibits themselves. In the late nineteenth century the renowned architect Sumner P. Hunt built the home for Roy Jones, son of the founder of Santa Monica, Senator John Percival Jones. City Trustees granted Jones a permit to dig a cesspool on April 16, 1894, marking...

California Museum of Photography

Riverside

UCR/California Museum of Photography provides a cultural presence, educational resource, community center and intellectual meeting ground for the university and the general public. The museum's explorations of photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. To serve an audience that is multicultural, young and old,...

California Science Center

Los Angeles

The California Science Center, named by Forbes.com as the most popular museum destination in Southern California, has received more than 18 million visitors since opening in February 1998. The Science Center provides a rare model for science learning by combining exhibits with an on-site Science Center School andAmgen Center for Science Learning as well as a teacher professional development program.

California Surf Museum

Oceanside

The California Surf Museum was founded in February 1986 when architect/surfer Stuart Resor appeared in a local newspaper article inviting interested people to found a museum to honor the history of surfing.Thirteen various folks showed up, formed a board of directors, and went to work! Looking for a place to call home, CSM was first based in an Encinitas restaurant...

California Views Historical Photo Collection

Monterey

California Views was established November 29, 1970 and is located in historic Monterey, on the California Central Coast, this unique photo archive is the most comprehensive Historical Photo Collection of the Monterey Bay area. Many of the images we have are one of a kind rare and unique images that we have the original glass or film negatives that will insure the...

Capitola Historical Museum

Capitola

The Capitola Historical Museum maintains extensive collections of photographs and artifacts related to Capitola's history, and offers changing exhibits on the history and art of the area, as well as on special seasonal and topical themes. Museum grounds now include a reconstructed cottage from the era of the early 20th century beach resort, and a wash house.

Captain Kazooz Kazoo Museum

San Jose

CAPTAIN KAZOOZ KAZOO MUSEUM IS A VIRTUAL REALITY MUSEUM. The MUSEUM is now displaying 20+ GALLERIES, KAZOO pix & links and numerous KAZOO related items. The exhibits have been painstakingly designed and executed to bring you a full measure of the VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE. I am hoping, that in choosing to visit the museum, you have set aside some time to relax and enjoy...

Carole and Barry Kaye Museum of Miniatures

Los Angeles

Opened originally in August 1992 as the Petite Elite Miniature Museum and rededicated in June 1994 at a new location on bustling Wilshire Boulevard, the Carole and Barry Kaye Museum of Miniatures delighted visitors for nearly two decades. In its day, it was "the premier miniature museum on the West Coast'' and, perhaps, in the world. Housed there were collections of...

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

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Charles M. Schulz Museum

Santa Rosa

For many years, though thousands flocked to exhibits in the United States and around the world to see the work of Charles M. Schulz, his original comic strips had never had a proper home in Sonoma County, the place Schulz called home for almost forty years.

Children’s Discovery Museum

San Jose

The striking 52,000 square foot purple building, designed by Mexico City-based architect Ricardo Legorreta, signals the purpose of Children's Discovery Museum to serve the needs of children, families and schools as a center for learning and discovery.

Computer History Museum

Mountain View

Spend a day at the Computer History Museum. Find out why computer history is 2000 years old. Learn about computer history’s game-changers in our multimedia exhibitions. Play a game of Pong or Spacewar! Listen to computer pioneers tell their story from their own perspective. Discover the roots of today’s Internet and mobile devices. See over 1,100 historic artifacts, including some...

Computer Museum of America

La Mesa

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CuriOdyssey

San Mateo

CuriOdyssey brings children and families up close with the natural world. Our mission is to educate and inspire people to take care of the earth wisely. We offer the tools to question and explore our world: interactive science exhibits, hands-on and explorative school and public programs, and up close encounters with native California animals.

de Young

San Francisco

Make your family's next visit to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco one to remember! Whether you are interested in seeing art or making it, your family will take away more than just memories from the Museums. There is so much to do and see for kids of all ages, from taking a kid-friendly tour through the galleries to...

Discovery Science Center

Santa Ana

The idea of Discovery Science Center began in 1984 when the boards of the Exploratory Learning Center and the Experience Center joined and formed the Discovery Museum of Orange County (DMOC). Simply stated, their goals were to teach kids what life was like at the turn of the century in Orange County in an interactive manner AND to build a...

Ecology Hall of Fame

Santa Cruz

Dedicated to heroes of the American environmental movement.

Emigrant Trail Museum

Truckee

Located in the beautiful Sierra Nevada, Donner Memorial State Park offers the summer vacationer opportunities for camping, picnicking, boating, fishing, water-skiing, and hiking. In winter, visitors can cross-country ski and snowshoe on trails and enjoy the season's beauty. Visitors are welcome year-round at the Emigrant Trail Museum and at the Pioneer Monument, built to commemorate those who emigrated to California...

Exploratorium

San Francisco

The Exploratorium isn’t just a museum; it’s an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception—a vast collection of online interactives, web features, activities, programs, and events that feed your curiosity.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

San Francisco

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprised of the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in San Francisco The de Young showcases American art from the 17th through the 21st centuries, international contemporary art, textiles and costumes, and art from the Americas, the Pacific, and Africa....

Firehouse Museum

San Diego

A museum of firefighting history in San Diego. The museum is housed in former San Diego Fire Station 6 and highlights many retired San Diego fire apparatus.

Fresno Art Museum

Fresno

The Fresno Art Museum welcomes, inspires and educates through significant exhibitions, thought-provoking programs and meaningful interactions with artists and the creative process. Unique educational programs include Summer Art Academy for Kids, Art Link, Family Day, ArtSmart Professional Development and After School Program as well as a Docent Program. Exciting activities and special events are also held throughout the year.

Fresno Metropolitan Museum

Fresno

The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science was a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate and American Alliance of Museums accredited museum located in downtown Fresno, California, in the San Joaquin Valley. The Museum was established in 1984 and was one of the largest museum between San Francisco and Los Angeles. “The Met” was housed in the historic 1922 Fresno Bee Building. In...

Fullerton Railway Plaza Association

Fullerton

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Getty Museum

Los Angeles

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu opened on January 28, 2006, after the completion of a major renovation project. As a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of...

Golden State Museum

Sacramento

Originally called the Golden State Museum, The California Museum opened in June 1998 as a unique public/private partnership. It was developed under the Secretary of State’s office with ste bond funding for the facility and the opening exhibits. However, the Museum’s long-term management and financial support are the responsibility of a nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation, no direct funding from the...

Great Valley Museum of Natural History

Modesto

The Great Valley Museum is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt foundation dedicated to providing science and natural history information to adults and children of all ages through classes, programs, and exhibits. The Museum is funded through memberships, admissions, grants, and donations.

Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Creeks

Oakland

This is the online version of a long-term project of the Museum's to promote neighborhood betterment in the Bay Area through preservation, restoration, and appreciation of our network of creeks. The foundation of the project is the publication of 15 creek and watershed maps. The maps locate former and existing stream courses in their neighborhoods. You can follow a stream's...

Gull Wings Children’s Museum

Oxnard

Gull Wings, the only Children’s Museum in Ventura County, has been in existence for over 25 years! Yes… 25 years!!! It is a truly hands on museum for children aged 2 – 12. We feature weekly story, art, music and science programs. Our exhibits range from marine animal touch tanks, to a model train display. Be a doctor or a...

Hearst Art Gallery

Moraga

The art collection originated in the early part of the 20th century, with the first gallery opening in 1934. The Hearst Art Gallery was built in 1977 with a grant from the Hearst Foundation. The newly expanded Saint Mary's College Museum of Art (formerly the Hearst Art Gallery) was completed in October of 2011. The Museum serves both the Saint...

Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument

San Simeon

Discover this legendary estate’s history, and learn more about its twenty five thousand artifacts, before seeing it in person. Hearst Castle’s history begins in 1865, when George Hearst purchased 40,000 acres of ranchland. In 1919, William Randolph Hearst inherited what had grown to more than 250,000 acres, and was dreaming of ways to transform it into a retreat he called La...

Herb Lane Museum

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Heritage of San Clemente & Visitor Center

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Hiller Aviation Museum

San Carlos

The Hiller Aviation Institute & Museum was founded by helicopter pioneer Stanley Hiller Jr. in June 1998. The museum can trace its origins to the 1970's. A group of eclectic aircraft, collected by Stanley Hiller, Jr., was gathered within a warehouse in Redwood City but only accessible to the general public by special appointment. The growing collection consisted of unique early...

History Museum of Santa Cruz County

Santa Cruz

This is our community. This is your museum. The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History at the McPherson Center (the “MAH”) is located at 705 Front Street in downtown Santa Cruz. We are open Tuesday-Sunday, 11-5, and open until 9pm on Fridays. We host large-scale community events on the First and Third Fridays of the month in the evening, as...

History Museums of San Jose

San Jose

History Park is located at the south end of Kelley Park at the corner of Senter Road and Phelan Avenue, and is accessible by VTA line 73. With 27 original and reproduction homes, businesses and landmarks, History Park highlights Santa Clara Valley’s past. Complete with paved streets, running trolleys and a café, this 14-acre site has the charm and ambiance...

Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

San Marino

Welcome to The Huntington, one of the world’s great cultural, research, and educational centers. A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington, an exceptional businessman who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate holdings in Southern California. Huntington was also a man of vision – with a special interest in books,...

ICR Museum of Creation & Earth History

Santee

In 1992, the Institute for Creation Research founded the Museum of Creation and Earth History in Santee, California. ICR developed the exhibits with a mission to equip believers with evidence of the Bible's accuracy and authority through scientific research, educational programs, and media presentations, all conducted within a thoroughly biblical framework. Upon ICR's move to Texas in 2008, the museum was...

Intel Museum

Santa Clara

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International Art Museum of America

San Francisco

Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco, the International Art Museum of America (IAMA) is a non-profit art museum that opened in October 2011. The museum showcases an array of artwork, including works by Chinese masters, Yun sculptures, and classic 18th to 20th century European portraits and landscapes. The IAMA embraces the excellence and individuality of the different worlds of...

International Children’s Art Museum

San Francisco

Located within the World Trade Center section of San Francisco's landmark Ferry Building, the International Children's Art Museum features art from children around the world. Its purpose is to help viewers broaden their perspective of art and cultures by displaying, comparing, and contrasting the many ways in which youth the world over interpret life. Given its own international heritage, the nearly...

Irvine Museum

Irvine

Dedicated to the preservation and display of California art of the Impressionist Period (1890-1930), The Irvine Museum is embracing a principal role in the education and furtherance of this beautiful and important regional variant of American Impressionism that has come to be associated with California and its remarkable landscape. The Irvine Museum invites you to share this experience and to...

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles

The Getty Center in Los Angeles presents the Getty's collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views.

Japanese American Museum of San Jose

San Jose

Established in November of 1987, JAMsj grew out of a 1984-86 research project on Japanese American farmers in the Santa Clara Valley. The farming project collected family histories, historical photographs, private memoirs and other unpublished documents and led to the development of a curriculum package on Japanese American history, which was adopted for use by the San Jose Unified and...

Jewish-American Hall of Fame (Division of Magnes Museum)

Berkeley

The Jewish-American Hall of Fame was founded by Mel Wacks in 1969 at the Magnes Museum, and became a division of the American Jewish Historical Society in 2001 and the web site came under the auspices of the American Numismatic Society in 2012. Over a million visitors a year take the virtual tour through 500 years of Jewish-American history --...

Judah L. Magnes Museum

Berkeley

The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life was established in 2010 at The Bancroft Library after the transfer of the Judah L. Magnes Museum to the University of California, Berkeley. Its remarkably diverse archive, library and museum holdings include art, objects, texts, music, and historical documents about the Jews in the Global Diaspora and the American West. As one of the world's...

Kenneth G. Fiske Museum of Musical Instruments

Claremont

About 450 musical instruments of most types are displayed in three rooms. These include the earliest documented Grand piano (ca. 1850) by Chickering & Sons, Boston; the only triple-manual reed organ by Mason & Hamlin (ca. 1889); Boston in a major U.S. public museum; the earliest dated (1866) American-made Boehm-system flute by Alfred G. Badger, New York; a very flute by...

Kern County Museum

Bakersfield

The Kern County Museum provides interpretive experiences through historical objects to tell significant stories about Kern County life to its visitors. As a result, the museum provides a meaningful learning environment for people of all ages and showcases the unique importance of the region in shaping the history of California and the nation in ways that enrich lives and shape...

Kern Valley Museum

Kernville

With its modest beginning in 1967, the Kern River Valley Historical Society has continually grown in membership and responsibility as caretakers of Kern River Valley culture and heritage. The KRVHS is a non profit group of caring members and dedicated volunteers who devote hundreds of hours to collecting, preserving and presenting the areas precious treasures through time. Among the many properties...

Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Center

Los Angeles

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L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition Museum

Los Angeles

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Laserium

Los Angeles

Laserium, and indeed the laser light show itself, was born in the late 60's and early 1970's. Ivan Dryer, then a film maker, was treated to a lab demonstration of a new multi-colored laser at Cal Tech. He was so taken by the purity and intensity of the colors that he decided to make a film and set the beautiful...

Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture

Los Angeles

The Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture is the first museum in the United States dedicated to presenting the contributions of Latino culture. It sponsors several exhibitions each year and actively acquires artwork and publications related to its mission. Recent acquisitions include six drawings produced by Chicana artist Judithe Hernandez between 1974 and 1982, two prints by Mexican artist...

Lawrence Hall of Science

Berkeley

Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958) invented the prototype of the cyclotron in 1930, barely two years after arriving at the University of California. He was called the “Atom Smasher”—the man who “held the key” to atomic energy. The invention that rocketed him to international fame started out as a sketch on a scrap of paper. Lawrence had found a method for...

Lindsay Wildlife Museum

Walnut Creek

Lindsay Wildlife Museum is a unique natural history and environmental education center where live, wild animals are just inches away. Visitors can listen to the cry of a red tailed hawk, go eye-to-eye with a gray fox and watch a bald eagle eat lunch. More than 50 species of live, non-releasable, native California animals are on exhibit. Tens of thousands of...

Long Beach Museum of Art

Long Beach

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles

With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors...

Luther Burbank Home & Gardens

Santa Rosa

Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1849. In California, his birthday is celebrated as Arbor Day and trees are planted in his memory. The famed horticulturist made his home in Santa Rosa for more than 50 years, and it was here that he conducted plant-breeding experiments that brought him world fame. One of Burbank’s goals was to...

March Field Air Museum

Riverside

Over 70 historic aircraft are on display both in and outside of the main museum building. Many famous record breaking planes such as the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" are represented as well as the strategic bombers and fighters of the Cold War Period. World War II is well represented by planes such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-25 Mitchell bomber,...

Mariposa Museum and History Center

Mariposa

Founded in 1957, the Mariposa Museum & History Center is administered as a non-profit corporation and is truly a labor of love for the dedicated volunteers who, over the years, have helped to create the museum you see today. We have been dubbed “The Best Little Museum of Its Size West of the Mississippi” by the Smithsonian Institution – high...

McCune Rare Book and Art Collection

Vallejo

The McCune Room at JFK Library houses a superb collection of rare and unique books, printing equipment and binding tools left as a bequest to the City of Vallejo by Dr. Donovan J. McCune. The particular strengths of this Collection are in: Fine Printing and Binding, Californiana, and Latin & Greek texts, including incunabula. We also have a fine collection...

MCRD Command Museum

San Diego

MCRD's distinctive Spanish Colonial Revival architecture was master-planned by noted Architect, Bertrand Goodhue. Goodhue also designed many of the buildings in San Diego's Balboa Park, as well as the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. MCRD is significant not only for its architecture, but also for its long history. Opening in 1923 as Marine Base San Diego, the...

Mexican Textiles

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Mingei International Museum

San Diego

Art of the World. Art of the People. Mingei International Museum preserves and exhibits folk art, craft and design from all eras and cultures of the world. Mingei celebrates human creativity, and the belief that everyday object and materials that often serve a useful purpose can also be objects of beauty. Art can happen anywhere… in any culture, in any place,...

Miniature Craftsmanship Museum

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Mission San Juan Capistrano

San Juan Capistrano

Mission San Juan Capistrano, historic landmark and museum is the Birthplace of Orange County, was founded more than two hundred years ago as the 7th of 21 missions statewide, and one with a chapel still standing where Fr. Serra once celebrated Mass. Today it is a monument to California's multi-cultural history, embracing its Native American, Spanish, Mexican and European heritage. Originally...

Modern Fresco Gallery

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Mojave River Valley Museum

Barstow

The Mojave River Valley Museum is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the scientific, historical and cultural heritage of the Mojave River Valley. Through the efforts of a group of interested residents, the Museum was founded in 1964 and established as a nonprofit corporation in 1973. Donations of money, time and labor have resulted in the present Museum facility located...

Motts Miniatures Museum

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Museum of American Heritage

Palo Alto

MOAH presents special exhibits throughout the year, highlighting significant subjects employing 19th and 20th century technologies. Selected items from the MOAH collection are presented in the Collection Corner, also on a rotating basis. Permanent exhibits emphasize the early 20th century, including the General Store, 1920s Kitchen and Dr. William's Office. And the Williams House, built in 1907, creates a special...

Museum of Contemporary Art

La Jolla

With two locations, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is the region’s foremost forum devoted to the exploration and presentation of the art of our time, presenting works across all media created since 1950. Located in the heart of downtown San Diego and in the coastal community of La Jolla, MCASD provides an unprecedented variety of exhibition spaces...

Museum of Craft and Folk Art

San Francisco

The Museum of Craft and Folk Art provides innovative exhibitions and educational programs that are designed to connect with and inspire diverse communities. As the only folk art museum in Northern California, the museum is known for a rich offering of focused and unique exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art and craft from around the world — demonstrating how...

Museum of Flying

Santa Monica

Originally established in 1974 as the Douglas Museum and Library, the Museum first opened in 1979 at 3200 Airport Avenue. The Museum was founded by Donald Douglas Jr, the second President of the Douglas Aircraft Company. The collection consisted primarily artifacts the ephemera of Donald Wills Douglas, the Founder and President of the Douglas Aircraft Company, however the collection did...

Museum of Fred

Los Angeles

In 1982, Frederick R. Weisman purchased the Los Angeles estate to serve as a showcase for his personal collection of 20th-century art. He and his wife Billie Milam Weisman, an art conservator and curator, worked together to create a unique environment located within the Mediterranean-style villa. The villa was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann in the late 1920s and exhibits...

Museum of Jurassic Technology

Culver City

The public museum as understood today, is a collection of specimens and other objects of interest to the scholar, the man of science as well as the more casual visitor, arranged and displayed in accordance with the scientific method. In its original sense, the term "museum" meant a spot dedicated to the muses - "a place where man's mind could...

Museum of Latin American Art

Long Beach

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) was founded in 1996 in Long Beach, California and serves the greater Los Angeles area. MOLAA is the only museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American art. Since its inception, MOLAA has doubled its size, added a 15,000 sq. ft. sculpture garden and expanded its permanent collection, ranging...

Museum of Making Music

Carlsbad

Founded in 1998 by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), the Museum of Making Music was developed to showcase and celebrate the music products industry. Soon thereafter, in March 2000, the Museum was opened to the public. For over ten years, the Museum has provided opportunities for cultural enrichment while preserving our musical heritage through special exhibitions, innovative concerts...

Museum of Paleontology, University of California

Berkeley

The University of California Museum of Paleontology houses not only fossils, but a sizable collection of printed material, images, and memorabilia. These are important both for paleontological research and for documenting the history of the Museum and of paleontology in general.

Museum of Photographic Arts

San Diego

The mission of the Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, educate and engage the broadest possible audience through the presentation, collection, and preservation of photography, film, and video.

Museum of the City of San Francisco

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Museum of the San Ramon Valley

Danville

What possesses us to accumulate objects? Is it because of a personal connection? Is it because of the objects' particular beauty? Or is it because of a more deep seated need to collect? Come and explore the history of early collections and the beginnings of museums while investigating our very own Curiosity Cabinet. Our museum will exhibit a distinctive and...

Museum of Tolerance

Los Angeles

MOT stands for Museum of Tolerance, the only museum of its kind in the world. It is the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an internationally renowned human rights organization dedicated to promoting respect and mutual understanding, through education, community partnerships , and civic engagement. Established in 1993, the MOT has welcomed over five million visitors, mostly middle and high...

Museum of Web Art

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The Museum of Web Art was founded for the simple reason that excellence and innovation in this new, electronic medium must be made accessible to those who seek it, and displayed in an environment suited to its content. MOWA aspires to be a place not only of galleries and exhibits, but of education and enrichment; where people from all over can...

Museum, California Center for the Arts

Escondido

The Museum features three galleries, a sculpture court, secure collections storage and receiving areas, and administrative offices. and a Museum Store. The Museum’s indoor exhibition space totals 9,000 square feet. Each gallery has varying ceiling configurations and heights ranging from 19 to 35 feet, skylights with controlled access for natural light, and 24-hour computerized environmental and security controls.

National Bicycle History Archive of America

BOX 787 DAVIS, CALIFORNIA 95617

An extensive historical bicycle archive containing over 30,000 original books, catalogues, photographs of bicycles ranging from 1860s-1960s. We provide restoration advice and historical information and focus primarily on American made bicycles, with special emphasis on Classic Bicycles of 1920-1965. The Archive also has access to the curator's collection of over 1,000 old bicycles.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Los Angeles

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is situated on land that served as an agricultural fairground from 1872 until 1910. In the 1890s, a local attorney and Sunday school teacher, William Miller Bowen, became increasingly alarmed by the growing numbers of saloons, gambling events, and other vices that existed in the park. In 1909, he led the fight...

New Americans Museum

San Diego

For centuries, the United States has beckoned to immigrants the world over. As a result, contemporary America is a diverse mosaic of cultures and traditions. One in five Americans today was either born in a foreign country or has a parent who was born abroad. In fact, children of immigrant families is the fastest growing population group in the U.S....

Niles Canyon Railway Museum

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Niles Depot

Fremont

The Niles Depot Museum's primary focus is early railroads of Fremont, Newark, and Union City with an emphasis on the Niles District of Fremont - mainly the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads. Present-day railroads such as Union Pacific and Amtrak are also featured, as well as earlier railroads of the area such as the South Pacific Coast.

Norton Simon

Pasadena

Approximately 1,000 works from the permanent collection of 12,000 objects are on view in the Norton Simon Museum’s galleries and sculpture garden throughout the year. There are two temporary exhibition spaces within the Museum; the curatorial department mounts three to five exhibitions centered on the collection, and one special masterpiece loan, per year. To extend the impact of these exhibitions...

Oakland Museum of California

Oakland

Situated between serene Lake Merritt and busy downtown Oakland, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is one of the most significant architectural examples of mid-century modernism in the United States. When it opened in 1969, OMCA's design by Pritzker prize–winning architect Kevin Roche was acclaimed for its bold and innovative premise: a museum that also serves as a vibrant urban...

Oceanside Museum of Art

Oceanside

OMA operates as a private, non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation and was originally founded by a core group of citizens who seized upon the vision of a museum and overcame all obstacles and skepticism to bring that vision to fruition after almost eight years of planning. OMA began providing exhibitions and public programs in 1995. With the support of the...

Online Archive of California

Oakland

The External linkOnline Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to primary sources—including manuscripts, photographs, artwork, scientific data and more—through more than 20,000 collection guides and 200,000 digitized images and documents. Analogous to catalog records for books, collection guides (also known as finding aids) are the descriptive records used to find, understand, and locate archival resources and unique materials. They...

Online Directory of International Sculpture Parks & Gardens

Vallejo

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Pacific Coast Air Museum

Santa Rosa

Founded in 1989, the Pacific Coast Air Museum (PCAM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the acquisition, restoration, safe operation and display of historic aircraft and provides an educational venue for students and the community.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

Pacific Grove

The Chautauqua (shuh-TAH-kwuh) Literary and Scientific Circle established its Pacific Coast branch in Pacific Grove in 1879. A two-week Chautauqua assembly was held here every summer, featuring lessons, exhibits, lectures, picnics, and concerts. Over the years several members felt the need to have a storeroom and exhibition site to house collections of nature’s wonders and to make them available for...

Palm Springs Air Museum

Palm Springs

The Palm Springs Air Museum is home to one of the world's largest collections of flyable WWII aircraft; and our air-conditioned hangars have no ropes to keep you from interacting with our exhibits. Our extensive library and our crew of trained volunteers can provide you details on the aircraft and a sense of the experience of flying them.

Pasadena Museum of California Art

Pasadena

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is dedicated to the exhibition of California art, architecture, and design from 1850 to the present. Informed by the state's rich mixture of cultures and inspired by its impressive geography, California art has long been defined by a spirit of freedom and experimentation. PMCA exhibitions and educational programs explore the cultural dynamics and...

Petaluma Museum

Petaluma

The former library now houses Petaluma poultry, dairy, and Miwok Indian history exhibits from the 1850s. The cornerstone for this stately Carnegie Library was laid in 1904. The building, designed by local architect Brainerd Jones and built from locally quarried stone, features the largest free-standing leaded glass dome in Northern California. The building is in the neo-classical style, featuring original...

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Berkeley

The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, formerly the Lowie Museum of Anthropology, was founded in 1901. Its major patron, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, supported systematic collecting efforts by both archaeologists and ethnographers to provide the University of California with the materials for a museum to support a department of anthropology. Hearst hoped that the anthropology program at the University of...

Portola Railroad Museum

Portola

The Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola is home to North America's largest and most complete collection dedicated to telling the story of one railroad. It is also one of the few places where you can experience rail history in a truly "hands-on" way. Come sit in the cab of the world's largest and mightiest diesel locomotive, climb aboard passenger...

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death

Los Angeles

Located within CCHR’s international headquarters in Hollywood, California, this state-of-the-art museum documents how psychiatry is an industry driven by profit, its pretended help often resulting in death. Thousands of lawmakers, doctors, human rights advocates, healthcare professionals and students, as well as private citizens have toured the museum and are using the information to take action in their own sphere and thereby...

Reagan Ranch Center

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Reale-Rydell Computer Museum

Los Angeles

The new computer museum is curious in that the whole picture is presented in a space of time defined by less than one lifetime, unlike museums of art, sculpture, or even the automobile. In addition, everything there is the result of a small number of revolutionary devices: the vacuum tube, transitor, integrated circuit, microprocessor (I am indebted to Alfred Chandler,...

Redding Museum of Art and History

Redding

RMAH is dedicated to fostering an awareness, appreciation and understanding of historical and contemporary art for audiences in the North State region, and to presenting the region's history in a context that will allow the public to unnderstand di9verse perspectives with the coming of the 21st century. The Museum achieves its mission through public exhibitions, educational programs, collections and publications. Ethnographic, historical...

Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center

San Diego

The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center features more than 100 interactive science exhibits in eight galleries, as well as major traveling exhibitions. Visitors can create colored shadows, design images with a sand pendulum, examine the vibration of guitar strings and get their hands on a variety of intriguing scientific phenomena.

Riverside Municipal Museum

Riverside

The Metropolitan Museum has, in its collections, a cast reproduction of an Allosaurus skeleton purchased in 1978 from an excavation site in central Utah. When we first assembled our website in 1996 the Allosaurus skeleton was described on one of our web pages. It became one of our most-visited pages even though the skeleton wasn't indigenous to our local area!

Robert A. Paselk Scientific Instrument Museum

Arcata

The Museum's collection consists primarily of scientific instruments and apparatus used at Humboldt State University, beginning around 1925. This web-site is intended to serve both as a stand-alone on-line museum, and as an information resource for physical displays.

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

San Jose

Welcome to the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium. Architecturally inspired by the Temple of Amon at Karnak, it houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in western North America -- including objects from pre dynastic times through Egypt's early Islamic era

Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center

Hanford

The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture was formed to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and educate the public about works of fine art. While the arts of no country are excluded, the Center's primary focus will be the arts of Japan. Through these means it hopes to further understanding of the culture of Japan and foster friendship between Japan...

San Bernardino County Museum

Redlands

The San Bernardino County Museum maintains and develops unique cultural and natural science collections related to our region and the greater Southwest. Through responsible collection, preservation, exhibition, and education, we inspire the public to a deeper understanding of our cultural and natural history.

San Clemente Historical Society Museum

San Clemente

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San Diego Aerospace Museum

San Diego

San Diego has one of the richest aviation heritages of any city in the country. Convair, home of such famous aircraft as the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina, was founded here. Ryan Aeronautical, home of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, was located here, and North Island Naval Air Station is the home of naval aviation. Much of that knowledge...

San Diego Historical Society

San Diego

San Diego History Center (SDHC) was founded by George W. Marston in 1928, then as the San Diego Historical Society (SDHS). Marston stated that the objective of the Historical Society was "for the discovery, collection and preservation of books, pamphlets, maps, genealogies, portraits, paintings, relics, manuscripts, letters, journals, surveys, field books and any and all other books, articles or materials...

San Diego Maritime Museum

San Diego

The Maritime Museum of San Diego enjoys a worldwide reputation for excellence in restoring, maintaining and operating historic vessels. The museum has one of the world’s finest collections of historic ships, including the world’s oldest active ship the Star of India. The Museum displays permanent and temporary exhibits on maritime history, commerce and exploration and stages popular public events such as...

San Diego Model Railroad Museum

San Diego

At 27,000 sq. ft., the museum is one the largest indoor model railroad displays in the world and the only accredited railroad themed museum in USA. The individual HO and N scale layouts are among largest of their type. Construction of the model railroads is accomplished by volunteer club members.

San Diego Museum of Art

San Diego

The San Diego Museum of Art, the region’s oldest, largest and most visited art museum, provides a rich and diverse cultural experience for almost 250,000 visitors annually. Located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum’s nationally renowned permanent collection includes Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures.

San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego

Founded in 1874, the San Diego Society of Natural History is the oldest scientific institution in southern California, and the third oldest west of the Mississippi. In its initial years, the Society was the region's primary source of scientific culture, serving a small but growing community eager for information about its natural resources. Early society members established a weather station,...

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

San Francisco

The museum Object Collections number approximately 35,000 items. They run the gamut from large parts of sailing vessels rescued from an undignified demise, to fine art created for the documentation and admiration of such vessels. There are items from the everyday lives of people making their living at sea, relying on the sea for transportation, and of those who became...

San Jose Art Museum

San Jose

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San Jose Museum of Art

San Jose

The San Jose Museum of Art is a distinguished museum of modern and contemporary art and a lively center of arts activity in Silicon Valley. The leading institution in the area dedicated to the art of our time, SJMA is committed to providing access for its extraordinarily diverse populations and to pioneering new approaches to interpretation. Established in 1969, SJMA presents...

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

San Jose

The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to promote the art, craft, and history of quilts and textiles. The Museum advocates on behalf of quilts and textiles as a distinctly accessible and unifying visual, sculptural, and kinetic art form pioneered and practiced by people worldwide for thousands of years to create objects of beauty, use,...

San Juan Bautista Mission

San Juan Bautista

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Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

Santa Barbara

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) opened its doors in July 2000, inside the Santa Barbara Waterfront Center (formerly the Naval Reserve Building). Built in 1943 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, the building overlooks the Santa Barbara harbor, the 1916 Sea Mew David T. Nidever and the museum’s flagship, the 1917 sportfishing yacht Ranger.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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Silicon Valley Art Museum

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Sonoma County Museum

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Stowitts Museum and Library

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Sun Gallery

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Tehama County Museum

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The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts

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The Knotts Berry Farm Museum

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The Lace Museum

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The Southern California Medical Museum

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The Tech Museum

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The Wende Museum

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Three Rivers Historical Museum

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Timken Museum of Art

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UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

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USS Hornet Museum

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Ventura County Maritime Museum

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Ventura County Museum of History & Art

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Virtual Egyptian Museum – Padibastet’s Tomb

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Weaving Art Museum and Research Institute

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West Valley Museum

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Western Aerospace Museum

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Western America Railroad Museum

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Western Museum of Scouting

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Western Railway Museum

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Western Sonoma County Historical Society

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Women’s Museum

San Diego

Women's Museum mission is to educate and inspire present and future generations about the experiences and contributions of women by collecting, preserving and interpreting the evidence of that experience.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

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ZEUM

San Francisco

The Children’s Creativity Museum is an interactive art and technology museum for kids. Our mission is to nurture the 3C’s of 21st-century skills – Creativity, Collaboration and Communication – in all youth and families. We believe that the ability to think critically, collaborate broadly, communicate effectively and generate and prototype multiple solutions, is the core of a 21st-century education. We envision a world...