List of museums in Orange County, California

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
Main article: List of museums in California
Name Town/City Type Summary
Arden Modjeska Historic Home & GardenLake ForestHistoric houseOpen by appointment, home of Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska
Astor Classics Event CenterAnaheimMultipleautomobile museum and communications & radio museum
Balboa Island MuseumBalboa IslandLocal historyoperated by the Balboa Island Historical Society
Bowers MuseumSanta AnaMultipleOrange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history
Bradford HousePlacentiaHistoric houseOperated by the Placentia Founders Society, furnished in 1900-1920s style
Beall Center for Art + TechnologyIrvineArtpart 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 CenterBreaLocal historyoperated by the Brea Historical Society
Casa RomanticaSan ClementeArtCultural arts institution and botanical gardens with international art exhibits in historic Ole Hanson home
Children's Museum at La HabraLa HabraChildren's
Costa Mesa Historical Society MuseumCosta MesaLocal history
CSUF Grand Central Art CenterSanta AnaArtContemporary art center with a theatre
Diego Sepúlveda AdobeCosta MesaHistoric 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 CountySanta AnaScience
Dr. Willella Howe-Waffle House and Medical MuseumSanta AnaHistoric houseOperated by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society, late 19th century home of a female physician
ExplorOceanNewport BeachMaritimeformerly the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, marine aquariums and touch tanks, ship models, life on the ocean floor
Fullerton ArboretumFullertonMultipleIncludes the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, and Heritage House, an 1890s Victorian house museum
Fullerton MuseumFullertonMultiplehistory, cultural and fine arts, and sciences
George Key Ranch Historic ParkPlacentiaHistoric house1898 historic house and collection of dry farming and citrus farming equipment and tools
Heritage Hill Historic ParkLake ForestOpen 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 Orange Art collection 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 MuseumHuntington BeachSportsHistory 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
Irvine MuseumIrvineArtCalifornia art of the impressionist period 1890–1930
Kawasaki MuseumLake ForestMotorcycles
Laguna Art MuseumLaguna BeachArtCalifornia art
Los Alamitos MuseumLos AlamitosLocal history
Lyon Air MuseumSanta AnaAerospaceLocated at John Wayne Airport, features military aircraft, rare automobiles, military vehicles and motorcycles, related memorabilia, with an emphasis World War II
Marconi Automotive MuseumTustinAutomotivehistorical, exotic, and classic cars including super bikes, open wheel racing cars, American muscle cars, vintage racing and high performance exotics
Mission San Juan CapistranoSan Juan CapistranoHistoryRemains of the historic Spanish mission and church
Mother Colony HouseAnaheimHistoric housemid 19th-century house
Muckenthaler Cultural CenterFullertonArtCultural arts center with exhibit gallery
Murphy-Smith BungalowLaguna BeachLocal 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 VietnamWestminsterMilitary HistoryHistory of the Republic of Vietnam and its Military
MuzeoAnaheimMultipleChanging exhibitions about the arts, knowledge, entertainment, culture and local history
Newland HouseHuntington BeachHistoric houseoldest residence in city of Huntington Beach, operated by the Huntington Beach Historical Society
Ocean InstituteDana PointMaritimeOpen 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 CourthouseSanta AnaLocal historyContains the Orange County History Center
Orange County Center for Contemporary ArtSanta AnaArt
Orange County Museum of ArtSanta AnaArtModern and contemporary art
Pretend City Children's MuseumIrvineChildren's
Ralph B. Clark Regional Park Interpretive CenterBuena ParkNatural 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 MuseumYorba LindaBiographicalLife of President Richard Nixon, includes his birthplace home
Santa Ana Fire Department MuseumSanta AnaFirefighting
Stanley Ranch MuseumGarden GroveOpen airOperated by the Garden Grove Historical Society, includes several historic buildings from the 1880s to early 1900s[1]
Surfing Heritage and Culture CenterSan ClementeSports
Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum and Botanic GardenYorba LindaLocal historyoperated by the Yorba Linda Heritage Museum and Historical Society
Tustin Area MuseumTustinLocal historyoperated by the Tustin Area Historical Society
University of California, Irvine University Art GalleriesIrvineArt3 galleries on campus
Westminster MuseumWestminsterOpen airoperated by the Westminster Historical Society in Blakey Historical Park
Whitaker-Jaynes HouseBuena ParkHistoric 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

See also

Defunct museums

References
  1. "The Garden Grove Historical Society". Garden Grove, California. Archived from the original on November 12, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  2. "The Cunningham Museum". Briggs Cunningham. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
  3. "Briggs Cunningham Auto Museum Closed". LA Times. January 1, 1987. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
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