Museums & Galleries

Turtle Bay Exploration Park

Spanning the Sacramento River in Redding, and connected by the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay designed by Santiago Calatrava, Turtle Bay Exploration Park is a 300-acre campus containing educational and entertaining activities that interpret the relationship between humans and nature. The Park tells the stories of the region and its people through a museum and art gallery, wildlife exhibits, forest camp, a year-round aviary, amphitheater, and an arboretum & gardens. For seasonal programs, hours, and…

Turtle Bay Museum Store & Coffee Bar

The Museum Store offers a wide assortment of products, from locally crafted items to park memorabilia, Redding souvenirs, jewelry and books. Children's area features animal puppets and fun educational toys. Our Coffee Bar specializes in grab and go fare, beverages and specialty coffee drinks.

Bolt's Antique Tool Museum

The museum displays approximately 12,000 different items consisting of wrenches, blacksmith tools, tune-up related items, jacks, service station items, plumbing tools, soldering irons, electric tools, hand grinders and other misc. items. Over 2,000 brands dating back to the 1820's. Considered to be one of the most historical tool museums in the world. Open 7 days a week. Mon - Sat. 10 am -3:45pm, Sundays 11:45 -3:45 pm.

Gaumer's Jewelry & Museum

Gaumer's has beautiful jewelry and gift items. Known for fine quality and workmanship, excellent service, and very reasonable prices. Fascinating mineral and mining museum on premises (Free Admission).

Highland Art Center

Highland Art Center is temporarily closed following the COVID-19 guidelines. Gallery, gift shop and artist studios located on Main Street in Weaverville's historic district, in a beautiful 1893 Victorian home in a park like setting, with inspired gardens. Open year round and featuring a new show each month in the main gallery. Visit Facebook: Snyder Highland Foundation/Highland Art Center for upcoming shows and events. Call for current gallery hours.

Anderson Historical Society & Museum

Museums on site displaying and preserving items of local historical significance include the late 1890's Frisbie House, a local boarding house relocated and renovated for museum displays, and one-room Columbia Schoolhouse, authentically furnished early ca. 1900. Open Tues , Thurs. and first Saturday of each month 11 am - 3 pm.

Behrens-Eaton House Museum

Behrens-Eaton House Museum is temporarily closed due to COVID-19 guidelines. Restored home lived in by same family from 1898 - 2003. Historical research library on site. Open Tues & Weds. 10 am - 4 pm, Saturday 1-4 pm or by appointment.

C.F. Lott Home in Sank Park

The home of Judge C.F.Lott, a'49er and prominent figure, was built in 1856.  The home, filled with many original furnishings and artifacts, tells a story of unrequited love, and life long devotion.

Chester Museum/Library

Housed in a contemporary log structure designed to resemble the 1929 log cabin library building, this museum also features an off-site exhibit including the century-old steam locomotive known as "Dinky". 

Collins Pine Museum

Exhibits on lumber grades, forest stands, old photos and implements. Information is displayed on branch and cone identification, saw milling, lumber drying, power co-generation, sustainability and on how forest operations fit into the carbon cycle.A small theater, an interactive panel on wood species identification, a push-button audio unit with workers voices and books on local lumber companies, forestry, logging and environmental history. An outdoor display of trucks and equipment that was used by Collins in…

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