California
Sunnyvale
Lace Museum
552 South Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale CA 94086
Phone 408 730-4695
Web Site http://www.thelacemuseum.org/
Description dedicated to keeping lacemaking alive
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Collection G-M Lace
New or Updated: 06/14/2003
California
Travis AFB
Travis AFB Heritage Center
Burgan Boulevard
Travis AFB 94535
Phone 707 424-5605
Web Site
https://www.travis.af.mil/museum
E-mail mailto:Gary.leiser@travis.af.mil
Description 28 aircraft outdoors, five additional aircraft and other exhibits indoors -- call ahead for security rules
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Aviation
Industry /Profession Air Force
Research /Reading Library
Tustin
Marconi
Automotive Museum
1302
Industrial Drive
Tustin
CA
92780
Phone
714 258-3001
Web Site
http://www.marconimuseum.org/
Description
Ferraris, race cars, motorcycles
Type of
Resource
Specialty
Museum
Primary
Focus
Automotive
New or
Updated:
6/21/2007
California
Van Nuys
Constellation Historical Society
7702 Woodley Avenue
Van Nuys CA 91406
Phone 805 484-1403
Web Site http://members.tripod.com/~N73544/
E-mail
mailto:aerocon@earthlink.net
Description maintains and flies one of last five flyable Constellation aircraft
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Aviation
California
Victorville
Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum
15650 Seneca Road
Victorville CA 92392
Phone 760 243-4547
Web Site www.royrogers.com
Description memorabilia of movie and TV cowboy husband and wife, best known for stuffed horse, Trigger
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Famous People
Field of Study/Science Facility Old West
Industry /Profession Movies
California
Vista
Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum
2040 N Santa Fe Ave
Vista CA 92083
Phone 760 941-1791
Web Site www.ziggyworks.com/~museum
Description agricultural machinery
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Industrial
Collection A-F Engines
Collection G-M Machinery
CA
Walnut Creek
Museum
of Vintage Fashion
10 Lacassie Court
Walnut Creek
CA
Phone
925 944-1896
Alt
Phone
925 938-3810
Web Site
http://www.museumofvintagefashion.org/
Description
36000 pieces of wearing apparel, by appointment
only
Type
of Resource
Specialty Museum
Industry
/Profession
Textiles
Collection A-F
Costume
New or Updated: 1/14/2004
CA
West Hollywood
MAK Center for Art
& Architecture
835 North Kings Road
West Hollywood CA
90069
Phone
323 651-1510
Web Site
http://www.makcenter.org/
Description
home & studio of architect Rudolf Schindler
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus
Building
Field of
Study/Science Facility
Architecture
Era 1922
New or Updated:
4/7/2006
California
Whittier
Whittier College Library
13406 Philadelphia Street
Whittier CA 90601
Phone 562 907-4200
Web Site www.whittier.edu
Description Nixon Room holds a large collection of his memorabilia, including the bulk of gifts he received from foreign governments
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government
Field of Study/Science Facility Politics
California
Wilmington
Drum Barracks Civil War Museum
1052 Banning Boulevard
Wilmington CA 90744
Phone 310 548-7509
Web Site http://www.drumbarracks.org/
Description last remaining wooden building of Union
Civil War fort, staging ground for Union activities in the Southwest
Type of Resource Specialty Museum
Primary Focus Military
Collection A-F Arms
Collection N-Z Model
Era 1861-1871
New or Updated: 06/18/2003
California
Woodland
Hays Antique Truck Museum
622 1st St
Box 391
Woodland CA 99574
Phone 907 424-6665
Web Site www.truckmuseum.org/index.html
E-mail
mailto:cdvmsm@ptialalaska.net
Description Local History focusing on Copper river & Northwestern Railroad
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Collection A-F Fishing
Owner/Operator: Cordova Historical Society, City of Cordova
California
Yorba Linda
Richard M Nixon Library and Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda CA 92686
Phone 714 993-3393
Web Site www.nixonfoundation.org
Description grounds include Nixon's birthplace, where he lived until he was 9, library, museum with 22 galleries, grave
Type of Resource
Specialty Museum
Primary Focus President
Nature of Group or Site Government
Field of Study/Science Facility Politics
Research /Reading Library |
