Los Angeles

Los Angeles Maritime Museum

The Los Angeles Maritime Museum creates an awareness and appreciation of the maritime history of coastal California, with an emphasis on the people and institutions of the port city of Los Angeles.

Travel Town Museum

The Travel Town Museum is in constant motion and offers many possibilities to contribute and share your existing skills, abilities, and knowledge. More importantly, as a Volunteer Participant, you will enjoy a myriad of opportunities to learn and grow personally and professionally, meet new and diverse people, and gain useful life skills.

Fort MacArthur Museum

he Fort MacArthur Museum is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history of Fort MacArthur, a U.S. Army post which guarded the Los Angeles harbor from 1914 to 1974. The Museum was established in 1985, and it is housed in the corridors and galleries of historic Battery Osgood-Farley. The Fort MacArthur Reservations hold an important collection of historical structures which were part of the U.S. Army's role in the defense of the American continental coastline from invasion.

Drum Barracks Civil War Museum

The Drum Barracks Civil War Museum is housed in the last remaining wooden building of Drum Barracks, named after Adjutant General Richard Coulter Drum, head of the Department of the Pacific. This facility served as the Union Army headquarters in the Southwest (Southern California and the Arizona Territory) from 1861 - 1871. Drum Barracks, which was first called Camp Drum, served as the main staging, training and supply base for military operations in the Southwest, and occupied approximately sixty acres of land with an additional thirty-seven acres near the harbor.

The General Phineas Banning Residence Museum

When General Phineas Banning charged me to preserve his legacy, neither of us realized how little the task would require. The General's accomplishments live on even today, and have entered the annals of history. But, due perhaps to my steady diet of carefully cured beef jerky, I have outlived my dear friend by more than a century. Consequently, I alone can bear witness to events which transpired those many years ago, and can offer insights which mere history cannot.

Autry National Center

The Autry National Center explores the experiences and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inform our shared future.