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Museum of Ventura County — There’s even more we have to give, for free!

by Community Contributor • December 22, 2021 • Comments Off

MVC Insider Season 3

Episode 1: Erle Stanley Gardner

Starting Friday, January 24, 2022 @ 10am

Fridays @ 10am on Facebook Live

We are officially back with Season 3 of “MVC Insider”! Join us on Facebook Live for the first episode of MVC Insider this Friday, December 24, 2022 at 10am! Mark your calendars and tune-in on Facebook Live for the next five Fridays at 10am.

Krystell Jimenez, Project Archivist, uncovers relics from the John C. Orr Collection pertaining to the prolific novelist and Ventura County native Erle Stanley Gardner who wrote the popular Perry Mason series.

Thanks to you, your Museum was able to provide connection and engagement during unprecedented times. In gratitude, we’re gifting our members commemorative magnets with a rare 1935 aerial photograph of Ventura County from the Research Library archive. Come pick up yours at the Museum of Ventura County or the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula during business hours while supplies last! Open Thursday-Sunday from 11am-5pm at both locations.

To become a member today and receive your own magnet, click here.

This year we are CLOSED on:

Christmas Day and New Years Day.

But we are OPEN on:

Christmas Eve and New Years Eve from 11AM TO 3PM.

Admission is free throughout 2022

for both The Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum.

Regular hours are Thursday-Sunday from 11am-5pm.

See you soon!

Now – Spring 2022

at the Museum of Ventura County

Arte Para la Gente explores artist Margaret Garcia’s vast body of work that captures and encapsulates culture, family, and urban life. Over the past four decades, Margaret Garcia has been a leader in the L.A. Chicano Art Movement, championing women, community, and those individuals who are marginalized by society. Her most recent works, many shown here for the first time, were painted in Ventura County.

Sponsored by

Lazer Media

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and The Port of Hueneme

Digital Jigsaw Puzzles

America’s Revolution

George Stuart Historical Figures®

Take a moment or two to relax with new online jigsaw puzzles with photography by Peter D’aprix of the stunning figures in George Stuart’s currently exhibit up at the Museum of Ventura County.

Brought to you in part by the

generous support of

Ellen Brokaw and

Al Lowe Construction

In the Moment

An interview with Margaret Garcia and The Barbara Barnard Smith Executive Director Elena Brokaw

This intimate interview and portraiture session took place in Margaret Garcia’s own studio on October 13, 2021. Delve deeper into the colorful world of Margaret Garcia as she paints

The Barbara Barnard Smith Executive Director Elena Brokaw.

The Carnegie Library of Oxnard, Part 2:

Post-War Growth and Outreach Programs

In this Journal Flashback we continue with the second part of Madeline Miedema’s article on the Oxnard Public Library, published in the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, Volume 37, No.2 (Winter 1992). Here Miedema details the continued commitment to children’s services and the challenges faced by the library following World War II. While the immediate post-war years saw a boom, the 1970s brought a dearth in funding. Despite that, the librarians continued to work on providing services to Oxnard’s diverse communities.

The Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula are open Thursday—Sunday from 11am to 5pm.

Admission to both Museums is now FREE.

Take a look at our current exhibits below!

Crossing Borders

at the Museum of Ventura County

Crossing Borders features select works from the Museum collection along with works by artists in the community who have immigrated to the US, sometimes as refugees in search of a safe haven, bringing their talent and creative

ideas with them.

America’s Revolution

George Stuart Historical Figures®

at the Museum of Ventura County

Through his intricately created Historical Figures, George Stuart captures the colorful personalities involved in America’s struggle for independence.

Funding provided by the

Fred W. Smith Gallery Fund

Tomols to Trains:

County Transportation

through the 1900s

at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula

Tomols to Trains explores how transportation played a role in Ventura County history. Visit the communities that struggled with the changes brought about by new modes of transportation.

See how towns and cities changed, how suburbs grew and how our farms and other industries became part of regional, national, and international economies.

Made possible by the

Heritage Fund at VCCF

Farm to Market

at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula

An interactive exhibit promoting healthy lifestyles through role-play, the Ag Market is an immersive environment where children and families identify healthy food choices in a market-like atmosphere.

Special thanks to

Santa Paula’s Mayor Carlos Juarez for volunteering his time and

talent in building our

fun-filled indoor market.