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Experiences in CA

Curated local experience providers on the ASTRO Network — tours, charters, museums, food, the arts, and events worth remembering.

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Los Altos History Museum
Los Altos, CA
The Los Altos History Museum explores local history through dynamic exhibits. Visitors can explore a permanent exhibition and step back into the past at the J. Gilbert Smith House. The museum features award-winning exhibits designed to inform, engage, and inspire.
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Hamilton Field History Museum
Novato, CA
Explore the history of Hamilton Field Air Base at the Hamilton Field History Museum in Novato. Discover artifacts, exhibits, and local stories of this historic aviation site.
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Roseville Utility Exploration Center
Roseville, CA
The Utility Exploration Center is a recently remodeled learning center and museum in Roseville. It provides an inside look at the utility systems that serve the city. Visitors can explore cutting-edge and traditional exhibits for an interactive learning experience on topics such as saving energy and water, reducing waste, and protecting the watershed.
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San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
The San Diego Museum of Art is the region’s largest and most-visited art museum, located in the heart of Balboa Park. It houses an internationally renowned collection of over 32,000 works dating from 3000 BC to the present day. Visitors can explore major exhibitions, cultural experiences, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, which features photography exhibitions and film festivals. The museum also offers daily guided tours and includes Panama 66, a restaurant with views of the sculpture garden.
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Chinese Historical Society of America
San Francisco, CA
The Chinese Historical Society of America Museum in San Francisco is open to the public. It promotes the history, culture, and legacy of Chinese in America. Visitors can explore its exhibits and learn about its collection of nearly 22,000 historical artifacts. The museum also offers tours, events, and has a gift shop.
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Ripley's Believe it or Not
San Francisco, CA
Ripley's Believe it or Not features a 3D mirror maze and diverse exhibits showcasing oddities and curiosities. Staff provide friendly and helpful visitor service, and the mirror maze is included with admission. The experience offers interactive entertainment and discovery for visitors of all ages.
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Marin Museum of the American Indian
Novato, CA
The Marin Museum of the American Indian is a museum in Novato, California, situated on Coast Miwok territory. It works to uplift, support, and make visible the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. The museum provides authentic educational programs and cultural resources for Marin and the greater Bay Area.
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Go For Broke National Education Center
Los Angeles, CA
The Go For Broke National Education Center is a museum in Los Angeles, CA, dedicated to educating and inspiring through the valor of WWII American veterans of Japanese ancestry. Located in downtown Los Angeles' Little Tokyo historic district, it features the Go For Broke Monument, engraved with over 16,000 names of Japanese American WWII service members. Visitors can also explore the Defining Courage Exhibition, which examines courage through the lives of these veterans.
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First San Diego Courthouse
San Diego, CA
The First San Diego Courthouse is a reconstructed brick building, originally built in 1847 by the Mormon Battalion as San Diego's first fired-brick structure. This 16'x27' building served as a town hall, then as the city and county courthouse from 1850 to 1869. It also functioned as a meeting place, church, school, and polling place. The First San Diego Courthouse Association reconstructed the building in 1992 after the original was destroyed in an 1872 fire.
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Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society
Fallbrook, CA
Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society is a nonprofit organization founded in 1957 in Fallbrook, CA. It operates a free museum and gift shop, focusing on gems, minerals, jewelry, geology, paleontology, and lapidary arts. The society is located near productive gem mining areas in the United States, offering visitors a chance to explore these earth sciences.
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Milton Gottardi Museum Historic Catholic Church
Loyalton, CA
The Milton Gottardi Museum is located in Loyalton’s City Center. It features artifacts and exhibits, including its world-famous O-scale train layout. This layout depicts Loyalton’s logging and ranching history. The museum is co-located with Loyalton City Hall and the Senior Center thrift store.
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Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum
Samoa, CA
The Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum houses over 20,000 digitally scanned photographs, art, and paper mediums. Its collection includes decades of donated artifacts such as shipwreck items, a 4th order fresnel lens, and small skiffs. The museum also owns the restored 1910 motor vessel Madaket, certified to carry passengers, and the 1917 fishing vessel Stephanie, which is currently undergoing restoration.
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Dixon Historical Society
Dixon, CA
The Dixon Historical Society & Museum offers exhibits and activities throughout the year. Visitors can see a mural depicting Dixon's history and cultural groups. The museum also features exhibits on the Bracero program and the iconic Milk Farm, including an original sign.
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The Broad Museum
Los Angeles, CA
The Broad is a contemporary art museum featuring works by renowned modern artists with free admission to all collections. The museum offers rotating special exhibitions throughout the year and curates works by acclaimed contemporary creators.
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Hargitt House Museum
Norwalk, CA
The Hargitt House Museum is a nationally registered landmark in Norwalk, built in 1891 by the D.D. Johnston family. This Eastlake Victorian style home features a two-story shiplap building with original exterior design, including "fish scale" shingles and decorative scrollwork. Visitors can take docent-led tours to see D.D. Johnston-Hargitt family heirlooms and memorabilia from Norwalk's past, along with an unaltered semi-attached water tower.
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ImagineU Children's Museum
Visalia, CA
ImagineU Children's Museum offers hands-on, screen-free exhibits designed for children ages 1–8. The museum aims to inspire imagination, exploration, and learning through play. Its exhibits spark curiosity, build confidence, and develop essential life skills in an engaging environment.
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Kidspace Children's Museum
Pasadena, CA
Kidspace Children's Museum is a nonprofit museum in Pasadena designed to engage children ages 1-10 through joyful, kid-driven experiences. Its 3.5-acre outdoor campus features dozens of hands-on exhibits where children can climb into a giant hawk’s nest, splash in water features, and interact with rockets. The museum also offers the S. Mark Taper Foundation Early Childhood Learning Center for babies and hosts a Sunset Music Series.
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Petersen Automotive Museum
Los Angeles, CA
The Petersen Automotive Museum showcases over 100 years of automotive history across 17 exhibitions. Visitors can explore rotating galleries featuring the world's most significant automobiles, including permanent exhibits like the Discovery Center and The Vault with its constant rotating vehicles. The museum also features Hollywood-famous vehicles and a Forza Horizon 6 Experience.
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Irvine Historical Society
Irvine, CA
The Irvine Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the Irvine Ranch, once one of the largest private ranches in the United States. Visitors can discover Irvine's history, which began when James Irvine I and two partners bought land grants in 1864. The society's files contain information about the area's transformation, from Native Americans to the rancho era and the Irish American family that shaped it.
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Morro Bay Maritime Museum
Morro Bay, CA
The Morro Bay Maritime Museum provides an easily accessible educational venue for maritime history, science, and technology. Visitors can climb aboard and explore real ships, uncovering ocean adventures. Its exhibits, which include lifeboats and submarines, are free for all ages.
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Foresthill Divide Museum
Foresthill, CA
The Foresthill Divide Museum is located in Memorial Park, Foresthill, CA. It offers many displays that give visitors a good idea of life on the Divide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Exhibits include Gold Rush artifacts, a logging exhibit with a scale model of the lumber mill, and educational displays on Native Americans, recreation, and transportation. The museum also features rotating exhibits and a computer-based slide show.
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Griffith Observatory
Los Angeles, CA
Griffith Observatory is southern California’s gateway to the cosmos, located on the south slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. Visitors can look through telescopes, explore 60 exhibits, and see live shows in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium. The planetarium offers presentations about the universe and microscopic building blocks of life. The observatory also provides spectacular views of Los Angeles and the Hollywood Sign.
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Twenty Mule Team Museum
Boron, CA
The Twenty Mule Team Museum in Boron, CA, documents local history and the history of borax mining in Death Valley and Boron. It features displays and archives for visitors and researchers. The museum showcases mining artifacts, antique machinery, unique artwork, and displays depicting Boron's early history. It officially opened to the public on August 4, 1984.
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WorldBeat Cultural Center
San Diego, CA
The WorldBeat Cultural Center is a nonprofit multi-cultural arts organization in San Diego's Balboa Park, dedicated to promoting and preserving African Diaspora and Indigenous cultures. Visitors can explore murals by local artists, multiple galleries, and a gallery of art and artifacts. The center also features a Healing Peace Garden, an urban oasis with rare edible and medicinal plants that serves as an Outdoor Classroom. This unique spot is a Certified Monarch Waystation and a Certified Wildlife Habitat.
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ASTRO Network Geography

Los Altos History Museum

Hamilton Field History Museum

Roseville Utility Exploration Center

San Diego Museum of Art

Chinese Historical Society of America

Ripley's Believe it or Not

Marin Museum of the American Indian

Go For Broke National Education Center

First San Diego Courthouse

Fallbrook Gem & Mineral Society

Milton Gottardi Museum Historic Catholic Church

Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum

Dixon Historical Society

The Broad Museum

Hargitt House Museum

ImagineU Children's Museum

Kidspace Children's Museum

Petersen Automotive Museum

Irvine Historical Society

Morro Bay Maritime Museum

Foresthill Divide Museum

Griffith Observatory

Twenty Mule Team Museum

WorldBeat Cultural Center