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The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, [ a] is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and Arabella Huntington in San Marino, California. In addition to the library, the institution houses an extensive art collection with a focus on 18th and 19th ...
Oakland Museum of California. / 37.7986; -122.2636. The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located at 1000 Oak Street in Oakland, California. The museum contains more than 1.8 million objects dedicated to "telling the ...
Timothy Potts. Website. www .getty .edu /museum /. The J. Paul Getty Museum, commonly referred to as the Getty, is an art museum in Los Angeles, California housed on two campuses: the Getty Center and Getty Villa. [ 1] It is operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's wealthiest art institution.
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.
The Haggin Museum is an art museum and local history museum in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, located in the city's Victory Park.The museum opened in 1931. Its art collection includes works by European painters Jean Béraud, Rosa Bonheur, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, landscapes by French artists of the Barbizon school, and sculptures by ...
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [ 6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
Greater Los Angeles Area. Historic house. 1929 home decorated with Malibu Potteries tile, tour includes adjoining Malibu Lagoon Museum in the former garage, with exhibits of local history. Adobe de Palomares. Pomona. San Gabriel Valley. Historic house. 1850s adobe ranch home, operated by the Historical Society of Pomona Valley.
This is a list of state prisons in California operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). [ 1] CDCR operates 34 adult prisons in California, with a design capacity of 85,083 incarcerated people. CDCR both owns and operates 34 of the state prisons; it additionally operates California City Correctional Facility ...