| Name |
Town/City |
Type |
Summary |
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| Arden Modjeska Historic Home & Garden | Lake Forest | Historic house | Open by appointment, home of Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska |
| Astor Classics Event Center | Anaheim | Multiple | website, automobile museum and communications & radio museum |
| Balboa Island Museum | Balboa Island | Local history | website, operated by the Balboa Island Historical Society |
| Bowers Museum | Santa Ana | Multiple | Orange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history |
| Bradford House | Placentia | Historic house | Operated by the Placentia Founders Society, furnished in 1900-1920s style |
| Beall Center for Art + Technology | Irvine | Art | website, part of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine, exhibitions that explore new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering including digital technologies |
| Brea Museum and Heritage Center | Brea | Local history | website, operated by the Brea Historical Society |
| Casa Romantica | San Clemente | Art | Cultural center and gardens with art exhibits |
| Children's Museum at La Habra | La Habra | Children's | website |
| Costa Mesa Historical Society Museum | Costa Mesa | Local history | website |
| CSUF Grand Central Art Center | Santa Ana | Art | Contemporary art center with a theatre |
| Diego Sepúlveda Adobe | Costa Mesa | Historic house | Operated by the Costa Mesa Historical Society, early 19th-century adobe house with rooms reflecting the Indian, Mission, Spanish and Victorian periods |
| Discovery Cube Orange County | Santa Ana | Science | |
| Dr. Willella Howe-Waffle House and Medical Museum | Santa Ana | Historic house | Operated by the Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society, late 19th century home of a female physician |
| ExplorOcean | Newport Beach | Maritime | website, formerly the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum, marine aquariums and touch tanks, ship models, life on the ocean floor |
| Fullerton Arboretum | Fullerton | Multiple | Includes the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, and Heritage House, an 1890s Victorian house museum |
| Fullerton Museum | Fullerton | Multiple | website, history, cultural and fine arts, and sciences |
| George Key Ranch Historic Park | Placentia | Historic house | 1898 historic house and collection of dry farming and citrus farming equipment and tools |
| Heritage Hill Historic Park | Lake Forest | Open air | Includes the Jose Serrano Adobe, 1863; El Toro Grammar School, 1890; St. George's Episcopal Mission, 1891; Harvey Bennett Ranch House, 1908 |
| Heritage Museum of Orange County | Santa Ana | Historic house | website, Victorian-era Hiram Kellogg House, exhibits of local history, formerly the Centennial Heritage Museum |
| International Surfing Museum | Huntington Beach | Sports | History of the surfing culture throughout the world |
| Irvine Fine Arts Center | Irvine | Art | website, municipal fine arts center |
| Irvine Historical Museum | Irvine | Historic house | website, operated by the Irvine Historical Society, mid 19th-century ranch house |
| Irvine Museum | Irvine | Art | website, California art of the impressionist period 1890-1930 |
| Laguna Art Museum | Laguna Beach | Art | California art |
| Los Alamitos Museum | Los Alamitos | Local history | website |
| Lyon Air Museum | Santa Ana | Aerospace | Located at John Wayne Airport, features military aircraft, rare automobiles, military vehicles and motorcycles, related memorabilia, with an emphasis World War II |
| Marconi Automotive Museum | Tustin | Automotive | website, historical, exotic, and classic cars including super bikes, open wheel racing cars, American muscle cars, vintage racing and high performance exotics |
| Mission San Juan Capistrano | San Juan Capistrano | History | Remains of the historic Spanish mission and church |
| Mother Colony House | Anaheim | Historic house | website, mid 19th-century house |
| Muckenthaler Cultural Center | Fullerton | Art | Cultural arts center with exhibit gallery |
| Murphy-Smith Bungalow | Laguna Beach | Local history | website, operated by the Laguna Beach Historical Society, 1920's beach cottage with local history displays |
| Museum of Teaching and Learning | Fullerton | Multiple | website, educational artifacts and traveling exhibitions about topics related to education |
| Muzeo | Anaheim | Multiple | Changing exhibitions about the arts, knowledge, entertainment, culture and local history |
| Newland House | Huntington Beach | Historic house | website, oldest residence in city of Huntington Beach, operated by the Huntington Beach Historical Society |
| Ocean Institute | Dana Point | Maritime | Open to the public on weekends, features marine life aquariums, marine science exhibits and programs, tours of Pilgrim, a replica museum brig ship |
| Old Orange County Courthouse | Santa Ana | Local history | Contains the Orange County History Center |
| Orange County Center for Contemporary Art | Santa Ana | Art | website |
| Orange County Museum of Art | Newport Beach | Art | Modern and contemporary art |
| Pretend City Children's Museum | Irvine | Children's | |
| Ralph B. Clark Regional Park Interpretive Center | Buena Park | Natural history | Features an ice age fossil and local geology exhibits |
| Ramon Peralta Adobe | Anaheim | Historic house | website, mid 19th-century adobe house, exhibits on the history of the Santa Ana Canyon area, open for special events and by appointment |
| Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum | Yorba Linda | Biographical | Life of President Richard Nixon, includes his birthplace home |
| Santa Ana Fire Department Museum | Santa Ana | Firefighting | website |
| Stanley Ranch Museum | Garden Grove | Open air | Operated by the Garden Grove Historical Society, includes several historic buildings from the 1880s to early 1900s[1] |
| Surfing Heritage and Culture Center | San Clemente | Sports | website |
| Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum and Botanic Garden | Yorba Linda | Local history | information, operated by the Yorba Linda Heritage Museum and Historical Society |
| Tustin Area Museum | Tustin | Local history | website, operated by the Tustin Area Historical Society |
| University of California, Irvine University Art Galleries | Irvine | Art | website, 3 galleries on campus |
| Westminster Museum | Westminster | Open air | website, operated by the Westminster Historical Society in Blakey Historical Park |
| Whitaker-Jaynes House | Buena Park | Historic house | website, turn of the 20th-century Victorian period house, operated by the Buena Park Historical Society, also the late 19th-century Bacon House, home of a miner's family |
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