The Shasta Cascade region of California is 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 Image Town/City County Type Summary Bangor Church Bangor Butte Local history Operated by the Butte County Historical Society Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park Chico Butte Historic house 26-room Victorian mansion Big Valley Museum Bieber Lassen Local history Bolt's Antique Tool Museum Oroville Butte Commodity website, hundreds of hand tools Butte County Historical Society Museum Oroville Butte Local history Butte County Pioneer Memorial 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 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 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, California Corning Tehama Local history 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 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 Trader 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 Gray Lodge Wildlife Area Gridley Butte Natural history website, protected wildlife viewing park with natural history museum, trails, wildlife observation hides Greenville Cy Hall Memorial Museum Greenville Plumas Local history Gridley Museum Gridley Butte Local history website, early families, farming, businesses Heritage Junction Museum McCloud Siskiyou Local history 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 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 Lassen Volcanic National Park Shasta County Shasta Natural history Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center has interpretive exhibits and displays about the park Loomis Museum Shasta County Shasta Natural history Located at Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park Manton Museum Manton Tehama Local history McCloud Heritage Junction Museum McCloud Siskiyou Local history Facebook site 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 Museum of Northern California Art Chico Butte Arts website, promoting awareness of northern California artists through collections, exhibitions, and educational programs 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 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 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 Tehama County Museum Tehama Tehama Natural history website Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair Museum of Local History Tulelake Siskiyou Local history website, 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 Westwood Museum Westwood Lassen Local history Facebook site 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
Defunct museums South Shasta Model Railroad, Gerber
References
External links
California State Association of Counties (CSAC)