Erin | May 15, 2013
Sierra College’s Natural History Museum http://www.sierracollege.edu/about-us/beyond-the-classroom/nat-hist-museum/index.php Admission: free So, Sierra College has a totally free natural history museum that I had no clue about until I started looking for things to review for this website. And you what? It’s pretty damn NIFTY. They are very big on the drawings outside. I’m not even going to [...]
Erin | April 7, 2013
Gibson House http://www.gibsonhouse.org/ The Gibson House is a Historical Museum in Woodland that used to be a rather large and impressive farm in the early days of Yolo County. No open to the public a few days a month, the Gibson House consists of 11 rooms, a root cellar, a dairy room, a barn a [...]
Erin | January 13, 2013
http://www.aerospaceca.org/ Admission: $8 Opened in 2007 at the former McClellan Airforce Base, the Aerospace Museum of California boasts a large collect of planes, engines, motion simulators, and other flight memoribilia. I am suddenly very happy that I didn’t bring the niece. We’d be spending all day playing on that, admittedly, awesome looking playground. It’s a [...]
Erin | December 24, 2012
http://www.thediscovery.org Ahh, nostaglia. I, not so vividly, remember going to the Discovery Museum and Science Center as a tiny person. Originally founded in 1951 as the California Junior Museum, the Discovery Center has entertain and educated kids for generations. I have to admit, my main reason for going (especially as The Niece could not attend [...]
Erin | September 29, 2012
http://www.thetech.org/ 201 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 Price: $15.00 The Tech Museum of Innovation (otherwise know as the San Jose Tech Museum or just The Tech) is in a three story building on South Market St in San Jose. Originally opened in 1990 at the San Jose Convention Center, it was moved to [...]
Erin | September 23, 2012
http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/ 1660 Park Avenue San Jose CA 95191 Opened in 1966, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum has one of the largest collections of Egyptian artifacts in western North America.
Erin | July 1, 2012
http://calautomuseum.org/ 2220 Front St. Sacramento, CA 95818 Admission: $8 Opened in 1987 as the Towe Ford Auto Museum after a combination of efforts of a group of Sacramento volunteers and Edward Towe, a Montana Banker with a rather large collection of Fords that was in dangerous of losing it’s spot in Deer Lodge, Montana. In [...]
Erin | April 8, 2012
http://www.californiamuseum.org/ 1020 O Street Sacramento, CA 95814 The California Museum (formerly known as The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts, which I can’t say I blame them for, it’s quite a mouthful) is housed in the State Archives Building and currently features exhibits on the California Indians, California’s Remarkable Women, the Japanese internment [...]
Erin | January 29, 2012
http://www.calacademy.org 55 Music Concourse Drive Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 94118 Museum Hours Monday – Saturday 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Sunday 11:00 am – 5:00 pm General Adult Admission: $29.95 Check the website for various other prices Originally opened as the The California Academy of Natural Sciences in 1853, the California Academy of [...]
Erin | January 25, 2012
Maidu Indian Museum 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive Roseville, California 95661 http://www.roseville.ca.us/parks/parks_n_facilities/facilities/maidu_indian_museum/default.asp Admission: $4.50/Adult $4.00/Child or Senior $16/Family of Four Free entrance on Third Saturday Evenings Until the 1850s the Southern Maidu(otherwise known as Nisenan) inhabited what is know pretty much the Placer County area (check out this map to see who was where). The Maidu [...]
