Museums

Sonoma State Historic Park is the site of the northernmost Franciscan Mission in California and birthplace of the California State Bear Flag. Unlike most parks with a single plot of land and a…

The Jesse Peter Multicultural Museum has an impressive collection of more than 5000 cataloged items, including art objects and archival materials such as photographs. Traditional Native American art…

General Vallejo's first home, La Casa Grande, was one of the most imposing, and well-furnished private residences in California. It stood in the middle of the block with its wide second-story balcony…

View the largest collection of original Peanuts art work in the world at the Charles M Schulz Museum. Visitors can laugh at Schulz’s original comic strips, learn about the art of cartooning and…

A historic display of all 21 California missions, built to scale in 1939 for the California Pacific Exhibition. The building was designed and constructed specifically to house these models. Each year,…

Rancho Obi-Wan is a 9,000-square-foot non-profit museum located on the outskirts of wine country in Petaluma, California. Officially recognized by Guinness World Records in 2014, it houses the world’s…

Part of the Sonoma State Historic Park, this two-story, wood-frame house was the estate of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Military Commander and Director of Colonization of the Northern Frontier.…

Fort Ross, one of the main tourist attractions between Bodega Bay and Fort Bragg, is a California State Historic Park showcasing a historic Russian-era fort compound that has been designated National…

Located in the heart of Wine Country, the Depot Park Museum has displays on the History of Sonoma Valley from pre-contact of Native Americans to post American Statehood; exhibits of Victorian pre-1900…

The former library now houses Petaluma poultry, dairy, and Miwok Indian history exhibits from the 1850s. The cornerstone for this stately Carnegie Library was laid in 1904. The building, designed by…