Behind the Exhibit A Gallery Talk with Jorge Corralejo

A live Zoom with renowned local photographer and activist Jorge Corralejo alongside Elena Brokaw, the Museum’s Barbara Barnard Smith Chief Executive Officer. Jorge’s…

Women’s Qualities

The Museum of Ventura County is excited to announce a new installation; Women’s Qualities by New York-based artist, Ghada Amer. Debuting on September…

Women’s Qualities

Ran Sep 17 2021 through Mar 31 2022

The Carnegie Library Of Oxnard

By Emilie Ritchen In this 1981 article the author gives a brief history of the Carnegie library. He recounts how the community came…

The House of the Angel

By Library Volunteer Andy Ludlum When two pirate ships appeared off the California coast in November 1818, it was a moment the governor…

Staging and Stations on the Santa Clara

Edited by Grant W. Heil This month’s Journal Flashback presents an account of taking a stagecoach from Ventura, through the Santa Clara Valley,…

Traffic On Ventura Avenue: Horse And Buggies To Rollerskates

By Eugene Foster Percy In this nugget, we get a glimpse of the social changes brought on by the automobile on Ventura Avenue….

Mechanization of Lima Bean Threshing

Joe Terry is interviewed by Wallace E. SmithEdited with additions from Alvin F. Aggen and others In this short article from 1980 Joe…

The Boom of 87

By John Montgomery The great Boom of the Eighties reached Ventura County late (in 1886) but peaked along with the rest of southern…

Arte Para la Gente

Ran Nov 11 2021 through May 31 2022

Rock Paper Scissors

Ran Jul 1 2021 through Oct 31 2021

The Weed Project – “Outlaws of the Super Bloom & Crimes We Commit in the Garden”

Ran Jun 12 2021 through Aug 29 2021