List of museums in Orange County, California

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This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Museums

NameTown/CityTypeSummary
Arden Modjeska Historic Home & Garden Lake Forest Historic houseOpen by appointment, home of Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska
Astor Classics Event Center Anaheim Multipleautomobile museum and communications & radio museum
Balboa Island Museum Balboa Island Local historyoperated by the Balboa Island Historical Society
Bowers Museum Santa Ana MultipleOrange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history
Bradford House Placentia Historic houseOperated by the Placentia Founders Society, furnished in 1900-1920s style
Beall Center for Art + Technology Irvine Artpart of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine, exhibitions that explore new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering including digital technologies
Brea Museum and Heritage Center Brea Local historyoperated by the Brea Historical Society
Casa Romantica San Clemente ArtCultural arts institution and botanical gardens with international art exhibits in historic Ole Hanson home
Children's Museum at La Habra La Habra Children's
Costa Mesa Historical Society Museum Costa Mesa Local history
CSUF Grand Central Art Center Santa AnaArtContemporary art center with a theatre
Diego Sepúlveda Adobe Costa Mesa Historic houseOperated by the Costa Mesa Historical Society, early 19th-century adobe house with rooms reflecting the Indian, Mission, Spanish and Victorian periods
Discovery Cube Orange County Santa AnaScience
Dr. Willella Howe-Waffle House and Medical Museum Santa AnaHistoric houseOperated by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society, late 19th century home of a female physician
ExplorOcean Newport Beach Maritimeformerly the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, marine aquariums and touch tanks, ship models, life on the ocean floor
Fullerton Arboretum Fullerton MultipleIncludes the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, and Heritage House, an 1890s Victorian house museum
Fullerton Museum Fullerton Multiplehistory, cultural and fine arts, and sciences
George Key Ranch Historic Park Placentia Historic house1898 historic house and collection of dry farming and citrus farming equipment and tools
Heritage Hill Historic Park Lake Forest Open airIncludes the Jose Serrano Adobe, 1863; El Toro Grammar School, 1890; St. George's Episcopal Mission, 1891; Harvey Bennett Ranch House, 1908
Heritage Museum of Orange CountySanta AnaHistoric houseVictorian-era Hiram Kellogg House, exhibits of local history, formerly the Centennial Heritage Museum
Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University OrangeArtcollection focuses on the California Scene Painting movement of roughly the 1920s through the 1970s and has a Disney Production Art gallery, as well as exhibitions of American illustrations and contemporary California scene painting.
International Surfing Museum Huntington Beach SportsHistory of the surfing culture throughout the world
Irvine Fine Arts CenterIrvineArtmunicipal fine arts center
Irvine Historical MuseumIrvineHistoric houseoperated by the Irvine Historical Society, mid 19th-century ranch house
Jack & Shanaz Langson Institute & Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA)IrvineArtCalifornia art from the impressionist period 1890–1930 to contemporary works. Major collections are the Irvine Museum collection and the Buck Collection
Kawasaki MuseumLake ForestMotorcycles
Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach ArtCalifornia art
Los Alamitos Museum Los Alamitos Local history
Lyon Air Museum Santa AnaAerospaceLocated at John Wayne Airport, features military aircraft, rare automobiles, military vehicles and motorcycles, related memorabilia, with an emphasis World War II
Marconi Automotive Museum Tustin Automotivehistorical, exotic, and classic cars including super bikes, open wheel racing cars, American muscle cars, vintage racing and high performance exotics
Mission San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano HistoryRemains of the historic Spanish mission and church
Mother Colony House AnaheimHistoric houseGeorge Hansen, superintendent of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society, built the house in 1857, one of the first buildings constructed in Anaheim, and the oldest remaining wood-framed building in Orange County. [1] [2]
Muckenthaler Cultural Center Fullerton ArtCultural arts center with exhibit gallery
Murphy-Smith Bungalow Laguna Beach Local historyoperated by the Laguna Beach Historical Society, 1920's beach cottage with local history displays
Museum of Teaching and LearningFullertonMultipleeducational artifacts and traveling exhibitions about topics related to education
Museum of The Republic of Vietnam WestminsterMilitary HistoryHistory of the Republic of Vietnam and its Military
Muzeo AnaheimMultipleChanging exhibitions about the arts, knowledge, entertainment, culture and local history
Newland House Huntington Beach Historic houseOldest residence in the city of Huntington Beach, operated by the Huntington Beach Historical Society
Ocean Institute Dana Point MaritimeOpen to the public seven days a week, features marine life aquariums, marine science exhibits and programs, tours of Pilgrim, a replica museum brig ship
Old Orange County Courthouse Santa AnaLocal historyContains the Orange County History Center
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art Santa AnaArt
Orange County Museum of Art Santa Ana ArtModern and contemporary art
Pretend City Children's Museum IrvineChildren's
Ralph B. Clark Regional Park Interpretive Center Buena Park Natural historyFeatures an ice age fossil and local geology exhibits
Ramon Peralta AdobeAnaheimHistoric housemid 19th-century adobe house, exhibits on the history of the Santa Ana Canyon area, open for special events and by appointment
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Yorba Linda BiographicalLife of President Richard Nixon, includes his birthplace home
Santa Ana Fire Department MuseumSanta AnaFirefighting
Stanley Ranch Museum Garden Grove Open airOperated by the Garden Grove Historical Society, includes several historic buildings from the 1880s to early 1900s [3]
Surfing Heritage and Culture Center San Clemente Sports [4]
Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum and Botanic Garden Yorba Linda Local historyoperated by the Yorba Linda Heritage Museum and Historical Society
Tustin Area Museum Tustin Local historyoperated by the Tustin Area Historical Society
University of California, Irvine University Art GalleriesIrvineArt3 galleries on campus
Westminster Museum Westminster Open airoperated by the Westminster Historical Society in Blakey Historical Park
Whitaker-Jaynes House Buena Park Historic houseturn of the 20th-century Victorian period house, operated by the Buena Park Historical Society, also the late 19th-century Bacon House, home of a miner's family

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References

  1. ↑ "Founders' Park". Anaheim.net. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Mother Colony House". Anaheim.net. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  3. ↑ "The Garden Grove Historical Society". Garden Grove, California. Archived from the original on November 12, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Mission". Surfing Heritage and Culture Center . March 13, 2020. Retrieved May 11, 2022.
  5. ↑ "The Cunningham Museum". Briggs Cunningham. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Briggs Cunningham Auto Museum Closed". LA Times. January 1, 1987. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
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