List of museums in the Shasta Cascade

The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, including far northern parts of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The area is centered on Mount Shasta in the California Cascade Range, near the Trinity Alps. Counties included in the Shasta Cascade region include Butte, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity.

This is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Museums

Name	Town/City	County	Type	Summary
Bangor Church	Bangor	Butte	Local history	Operated by the Butte County Historical Society[1]
Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park	Chico	Butte	Historic house	26-room Victorian mansion
Big Valley Museum	Bieber	Lassen	Local history	[2]
Bolt's Antique Tool Museum	Oroville	Butte	Commodity	website, hundreds of hand tools
Butte County Historical Society Museum	Oroville	Butte	Local history	[1]
Butte County Pioneer History Museum	Oroville	Butte	Local history	website, includes household and decorative items, tools, furnishings, quilts, photos, Native American and Chinese artifacts
Butte Valley Museum	Dorris	Siskiyou	Local history	Operated by the Butte Valley Museum & Historical Society[3]
C.F. Lott Home	Oroville	Butte	Historic house	website, Victorian cottage with decorative arts typical of Oroville's pioneer families
Cherokee Museum	Cherokee	Butte	Open air
Chester-Lake Almanor Museum	Chester	Plumas	Local history	[4]
Chico Air Museum	Chico	Butte	Aviation	website, historic aircraft and local aviation history artifacts
Chico Creek Nature Center	Chico	Butte	Natural history	Area natural history, live animals, located in Bidwell Park
Chico Museum	Chico	Butte	Local history	website, Chico and Butte County history, includes Chinese Taoist Temple, Chico timeline
Collins Pine Museum	Chester	Plumas	Industry	website, area lumbering and forestry industry
Colman Museum	Chico	Butte	Local history	Facebook site, includes Civil War memorabilia, gold mining equipment, Maidu artifacts, tools, clothing, cooking utensils, school items, Chinese artifacts
Corning Museum	Corning	Tehama	Local history	[5]
Dunsmuir Museum	Dunsmuir	Siskiyou	Local history	Operated by the Dunsmuir Railroad Depot Historical Society, local and railroad history
Etna Museum	Etna	Siskiyou	Local history	website, operated by the Native Daughters of the Golden West
Fort Crook Museum	Fall River Mills	Shasta	Open air	website, information, operated by the Fort Crook Historical Society
Fort Jones Museum	Fort Jones	Siskiyou	Local history	website, exhibits of area's inhabitants, including Native Americans, fur trappers, gold miners, pioneers, cowboys and soldiers
Frank C. Reilly Museum	La Porte	Plumas	Local history	Area gold mining and ski racing history[4]
Gateway Science Museum	Chico	Butte	Multiple	website, part of California State University, Chico, science and natural history
Gaumer's Jewelry & Museum	Red Bluff	Tehama	Natural history	website, minerals and mining museum inside the jewelry store
Gold Nugget Museum	Paradise	Butte	Open air	website, includes Maidu Indian artifacts, a blacksmith shop, gold sluices and a miner's cabin, a schoolhouse and a covered bridge
Gold Trade[6] r Flat & Yuba-Feather Historical Museum	Forbestown	Butte	Open air	Life-size replica 1870s-period mining town adjacent to the Yuba-Feather Historical Museum with exhibits of Maidu artifacts, pioneers, mining, Chinese workers[7][8]
Gray Lodge Wildlife Area	Gridley	Butte	Natural history	website, 9,100-acre (37 km^2) protected wildlife viewing park with natural history museum, trails, wildlife observation hides
Greenville Cy Hall Memorial Museum	Greenville	Plumas	Local history	[4]
Gridley Museum	Gridley	Butte	Local history	website, early families, farming, businesses
Heritage Junction Museum	McCloud	Siskiyou	Local history	[9][10]
Indian Valley Museum	Taylorsville	Plumas	Local history	website, Maidu artifacts, pioneer items, gems and minerals, exhibits of early logging, farming, blacksmithing tools and equipment
Jake Jackson Memorial Museum	Weaverville	Trinity	Local history	website, firearms, mining, farming and ranching, transportation, Native Americans and local Chinese history, operated by the Trinity County Historical Society
Janet Turner Print Museum	Chico	Butte	Art	website, part of California State University, Chico, fine art prints spanning six centuries
Jim Beckwourth Museum	Portola	Plumas	Biographical	Life of African American pioneer James Beckwourth[4]
Kelly-Griggs House Museum	Red Bluff	Tehama	Historic house	Facebook site, Victorian period house
Klamath National Forest Interpretive Museum	Yreka	Siskiyou	Natural history	Located at the Supervisor's Office of the Klamath National Forest
Lassen Historical Museum	Susanville	Lassen	Local history	Includes Roop's Fort, operated by the Lassen County Historical Society[11][12]
Lassen Volcanic National Park	Shasta	Shasta	Natural history	Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center has interpretive exhibits and displays about the park, located
Loomis Museum	Shasta	Shasta	Natural history	Located at Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park
Manton Museum	Manton	Tehama	Local history	[13]
Military Museum of Butte County	Oroville	Butte	Military	website, 20th-century military history, art, weapons, vehicles and memorabilia
Modoc County Historical Museum	Alturas	Modoc	Local history	Includes Native American and pioneer artifacts, household and business items
Mt. Shasta Sisson Museum	Mount Shasta	Siskiyou	Local history	website, includes exhibits on caving, sport angling, minerals, mountaineering, railroad and local history; located on the grounds of the fish hatchery
National Yo-Yo Museum	Chico	Butte	Sports	website, world's largest display of yo-yos, hosts annual national contest
Oregon City School	Oregon City	Butte	Education	Historic school, operated by the Butte County Historical Society[1]
Oroville Chinese Temple	Oroville	Butte	Ethnic	1863 temple complex with rooms for Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, tapestries, art, folk art, puppets and gardens
Paradise Depot Museum	Paradise	Butte	Industry	website, railroad and logging museum
Patrick Ranch Museum	Durham	Butte	Agriculture	website, 19th-century ranch house with public farm and ranching activities
Plumas County Museum	Quincy	Plumas	Local history	website, website, exhibits include Maidu baskets, railroad, gold mining and timber industries, art, dolls, natural history and Chinese influence collections
Plumas-Eureka State Park	Blairsden	Plumas	Mining	Gold mining buildings
Scott Museum	Trinity Center	Trinity	Local history	Includes Native American artifacts, models of transportation[14]
Shasta State Historic Park	Shasta	Shasta	Open air	Historic ghost town, courthouse museum with local history exhibits
Siskiyou Arts Museum	Dunsmuir	Siskiyou	Art	website, works of noted regional and national artists
Siskiyou County Museum	Yreka	Siskiyou	Local history	website, operated by the Siskiyou County Historical Society, exhibits include Native Americans, trappers, gold mining, Chinese, pioneers, timber, weapons, period rooms
Stansbury House	Chico	Butte	Historic house	website, Victorian period house
Stirling City Museum	Stirling City	Butte	Local history	website, operated by the Stirling City Historical Society
Susanville Railroad Depot	Susanville	Lassen	Local history	Operated by the Lassen Land & Trails Trust, area railroad, logging and local history[15][16]
Tehama County Museum	Tehama	Tehama	Natural history	website
Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair Museum of Local History	Tulelake	Siskiyou	Local history	website, information, located at the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds
Turtle Bay Exploration Park	Redding	Shasta	Multiple	Botanical garden, museum with exhibits about local natural history, cultural history, science and art
Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology	Chico	Butte	Anthropology	website, part of California State University, Chico
Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park	Weaverville	Trinity	Religious	1874 Taoist temple and Chinese artifacts
Weed Historic Lumber Town Museum	Weed	Siskiyou	Local history	website, household artifacts, tools, antique transportation and machines
Western Pacific Railroad Museum	Portola	Plumas	Railroad	Over 35 locomotives and 80 railroad cars
William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park	Red Bluff	Tehama	Historic house	Mid 19th century adobe house, replica blacksmith shop and ranch outbuildings
Williams House Museum	Portola	Plumas	Local history	1931 log home, exhibits on local family history, area lumber, mining and railroad industries[4]

Defunct museums

• South Shasta Model Railroad, Gerber^[17]

References

1. "Visit Us". Butte County Historical Society. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
2. "Lassen Museums". Society for California Archaeology. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
3. "Facebook site". Butte Valley Museum & Historical Society. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
4. "Things to See and Do - Museums". Plumas County. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
5. "Visitors: Attractions". Corning Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
6. "Heritage Junction Museum, Hours of Operation". McCloud Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
7. "Yuba Feather Museum and Gold Trader Flat". Sierra Nevada GeoTourism. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
8. "Gold Trader Flat & Yuba-Feather Historical Museum". Experience Butte County. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
9. "Heritage Junction Museum of McCloud". McCloud Rails. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
10. "Facebook site". McCloud Heritage Junction Museum. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
11. "Lassen Historical Museum and Roop's Fort". Sierra Nevada GeoTourism. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
12. "Lassen Historical Museum". City of Susanville. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
13. "Places of Interest". Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
14. "Attractions". Trinity County Online. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
15. "Historic Susanville Railroad Depot". Sierra Nevada GeoTourism. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
16. "Official site". Lassen Land and Trails Trust. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
17. "Godfrey Humann's shop in Gerber, CA". Retrieved 8 January 2014.

External links

• California State Association of Counties (CSAC)