Museums in:

Ventura, California

A.J. Comstock Fire Museum

Ventura, California

Historic House

A.J. Comstock Fire Museum in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Albinger Archeological Museum

Ventura, California

Natural History

Albinger Archeological Museum in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Carnegie Art Museum

Oxnard, California

Art, Culture, History, Library

This unique "Greek Temple" hosts special changing exhibits from international art collections and Museum's permanent collection of California Impressionism and Hollywood photography.

Gull Wings Children's Museum

Oxnard, California

Children's

Dedicated to providing a place for children and their families to explore and discover together the wonders of the world around us, Gull Wings features over 15 hands-on exhibits or, we like to say, imagination stations. Gull Wings is the only children's museum in Ventura County.

Historic Dudley House

Ventura, California

Historic House

San Buenaventura Heritage, Inc. (SBH) is a non-profit educational and charitable corporation founded in 1978 active in historic preservation in the City of San Buenaventura (Ventura), California. The primary focus of SBH is the preservation of the Dudley House, an 1892 Victorian farm house.

Olivas Adobe Historic Park

Ventura, California

Park

This Historic museum focuses on the rancho period of California history.

San Buenaventura Mission

Ventura, California

Anthropology, Archaeology, Church, Culture, History, Historic House

The founding of San Buenaventura Mission was foreshadowed well over two centuries ago on the Spanish isle of Mallorca, when a devout Franciscan priest, who was a brilliant scholar and professor of theology, earnestly prayed that he might be permitted to forsake his comfortable circumstances to take up the Lord’s work among the aborigines in the New World. The hoped-for answer to his prayers came on Palm Sunday, March 30, 1749.

Art

Ventura County Museum, History & Art in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Channel Islands National Park

Ventura, California

Park

The Visitors Center features a museum, a bookstore, a display of marine aquatic life and exhibits featuring the unique character of each park island. Visitors will enjoy the 25-minute movie, "A Treasure in the Sea", throughout the whole day.

Heritage Square

Oxnard, California

Children's, Culture, General, History, Historic House, Historical Society

Scheduled group tours are offered seven days a week by the Friends of Heritage Square in an outdoor museum of architecture and elegance. Heritage Square’s outdoor Main Plaza capture’s the beauty of the Victorian mansions and surrounding gardens. This spacious, open-air plaza is an ideal setting for luncheons. Tour packages can include catered teas and box lunches before or after your scheduled tour.

Nature Centers

California State Parks announced May 13, 2011 a plan to close 70 of its 278 parks due to budget cuts. These cuts are mandated by AB 95, which was passed by the Legislature and signed into Law by the Governor. These closures are through the years 2011 – 13. This facility is one of the 70 closures.

Ortega Adobe

Ventura, California

Historic House

Ortega Adobe in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

Historic House

San Buenaventura Mission Museum in Ventura, CA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find an exciting museum to visit where you live or vacation today.

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MUSEUM CONFERENCES

October 13 - October 14, 2025

2025 Annual Florida Association of Museums Conference & Expo titled: Preserving Paradise

Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort

Daytona Beach, Florida

We are excited to INVITE you to join us for the FAM Expo, October 13-14, in Daytona Beach. Join your colleagues and welcome the FAM attendees as we all talk about and share our strategies to keep Florida a Paradise.

For more information, please call !!!.

October 13 - October 15, 2025

2025 Michigan Museum Association Conference: The Future is NOW

Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center

East Lansing, Michigan

The conference Keynote Speakers will address the conference theme of The Future is Now.

Four sets of concurrent sessions provide the opportunity for members of the Michigan museum community to share their expertise and resource

The Museum Cafe is a general session that provides the opportunity for participants to explore a variety of topics in short, small-group discussions

Returning this year is the newly named Slide Sprint Session, a set of PechaKucha-style presentations which will give five conference attendees the chance to reflect on the conference theme using 20 slides shown in 20 second intervals.

Monday and Wednesday Drop-In Activities and Workshop

All conference attendees are invited to show your conference name badge to visit area museums and explore Greater Lansing during the block sessions on Monday morning and afternoon, and on Wednesday afternoon. All of these drop-in activities are included in your conference registration.

Participants are also invited to sign up for small-group workshops. Advance registration is required and an additional fees range from $15 to $50 to cover expenses.

For more information, please call !!!.

October 1 - October 4, 2025

Western Museums Association’s (WMA) 2025 Annual Meeting

TBA

Reno, Nevada

Save the Date for WMA 202

As we celebrate our 90th anniversary, join us to build relationships and soar higher than ever before. With the theme of ELEVATE, WMA 2025 will explore ways to lift up the experiences of cultural professionals and the communities they serve.

In Reno, Nevada, 4,400 feet above sea level, we will forward the progress of museums by looking to the future.

September 10 - September 13, 2025

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

TBD

Cincinnati, Ohio

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email info@aaslh.org.

September 5 - September 8, 2025

Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) 2025 Conrference

Moscone Center

San Francisco, California

ASTC 2025 Annual Conference September 5–8, 2025 San Francisco Bay Area ASTC 2025 will be held primarily at the Moscone Center in the SoMa/Yerba Buena neighborhood of San Francisco with other events throughout the area. The ASTC Annual Conference is one of the premier annual events for science-engagement professionals and leaders in science and technology centers and museums as well as allied organizations across North America and around the world. ASTC 2025 is being hosted by a consortium of ASTC members in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each year, this event brings together more than 1,600 professionals working in science and technology centers and museums and allied organizations. This includes not only experts and practitioners in informal science education, but also science communication, STEM learning, public engagement, and the broader intersections between science, technology, and society.

For more information, please call 202-783-7200 or email conference@astc.org.