Arts and Cultural Sites in UpState CA

Siskiyou County Museum

The museum features exhibits detailing Siskiyou County's colorful history from Indian cultures to 20th century themes.  The museum is an interpretive center which includes exhibits, programs, and a research library.

Tehama County Museum

The museum preserves and exhibits artifacts that represent the cultural heritage of Tehama County. Exhibits include early agriculture, Native American Indians - Yana and Nomlaki, and early transportation.

The Stansbury House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, this beautiful Victorian style home was built for Dr. Oscar Stansbury in 1883. Tours are available Wednesday through Sunday. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, this beautiful Victorian style home was built for Dr. Oscar Stansbury in 1883. Tours are available Saturday and Sunday at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm.

Tule Lake National Monument

The Tule Lake National Monument includes both the the Tule Lake Segregation Center, the largest and most controversial of the sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, and Camp Tulelake, which was first a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, then an additional facility to detain Japanese Americans, and finally a prisoner of war camp.

Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park

In July 1848 Major Pierson B. Reading found gold on a sandbar in the Trinity River, and the following gold rush duplicated those in other parts of California. Though a few Chinese had probably come to California in 1840, there were only 54 Chinese men and one Chinese woman here by early 1848. But several thousand, most from the province of Kwangtung, arrived with the thousands of other gold seekers who came to the region.…

Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum

Logging and town memorabilia including pictures and the jail are shown on a free tour of impressive interior and outside displays by a friendly docent. 

Westwood Museum

The Museum displays artifacts and pictures of the town as it was in 1913. Once the home of Red River Lumber Company, Westwood had the largest pine lumber mill in the world from 1913 to 1956.