Free First Sunday at the Ag: Scientific Arts & Crafts
January 5, 2020 • 12—2PM
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What happens when you mix science with art? Join us at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula on Sunday, January 5, 2020 from 12—2PM for Free First Sunday and participate in family friendly, interactive science and art activities! Hands-on programming will be led by museum educators from 12—2PM. Visitors will create their very own colorful sand pendulum, examine the form and function of local plants and leaves through hands-on crafts, learn the crucial role that bees have in our ecosystem while creating their very own bee using every day household items, and more.
Arrive early to explore the Agriculture Museum and see “Unbridled with the Compton Cowboys” before it closes on January 19, 2020. As always, admission is free on the first Sunday of every month at both the Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula. Gather the entire family and join us at the Museum!
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Saticoy’s Prisoner
of War Camp
The latest MVC Then Blog is now available!
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Ortwin Holdt and his fellow workers stood on stools and peered over a fence in Saticoy to watch high school boys playing a strange team sport. It was American football, not the soccer that the 20-year-old Luftwaffe radar operator knew. But what was a German soldier doing in Saticoy in 1945?
Holdt was captured by American forces invading Nazi-held positions near Marseille, France in 1944. He was one of 425,871 prisoners of war, mostly from Germany and Italy, who were kept in 511 POW camps in the United States. Many of the prisoners worked as farm laborers. Saticoy was home to a farm labor camp for about a year from May 1945 until… continue reading
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Call for Volunteers!
January 24—26, 2020
We are excited for the upcoming Albinger Archaeological Museum’s 40th Anniversary event scheduled for Friday, January 24th — Sunday, January 26, 2020. Come celebrate our county’s history and become a part of our museum family and volunteer! We need volunteers to make this an incredible event and there are plenty of opportunities to do so. If you are interested please contact our Volunteer Coordinator Liisa Pynnonen at LP ynnonen@venturamuseum.org or call (805) 653-0323 x 310. We are always looking to make connections in our community and one of the ways that happens is through the people that volunteer. We are so appreciative of our volunteers; we couldn’t exist without them.
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Are you a member of the Museum of Ventura County? Explore, discover and celebrate at the Museum everyday for free!
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Become a member today and enjoy benefits that include free or discounted admission to events, lectures, and classes, advanced notice of all events and exhibits, invitation to annual Member events, and more!
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Poetry Reading and Book Signing by Friday Gretchen
Saturday, January 11 2020 @ 3—4:30 PM Friday Gretchen and guests will read from her inaugural book of poetry, “Unkindnesses”. Admission is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and refreshments will be served.
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Free First Sunday: Scientific Art Crafts (AG)
Sunday, January 5, 2020 @ 12—2PM Participate in family-friendly, interactive science and art activities at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula! Hands-on programming will be led by museum educators. Admission to the museum and activity is FREE!
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Camerata Pacifica: Beethoven, Nielsen & Dvorak
Sunday, January 12, 2020 @ 3—5PM Tickets are on-sale now! Join Camerata Pacifica at the Museum for an afternoon of Beethoven, Nielsen & Dvorak.
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California Cool Lecture Series & Documentary Screening
Saturday, January 25, 2020 @ 2—4PM Join us for an insightful panel discussion and documentary screening about modernist design, fine arts and crafts, and the creative individuals who made a lasting impact in design history.
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Dig Into History 3-Day Celebration
Friday, January 24, 2020—Sunday, January 26, 2020 @ 11AM—4PM Celebrate 3,500 years of cultural diversity with music, dance, crafts, and storytelling to honor the diversity of the cultures who have lived here and left their mark on history.
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Jr. Livestock Nutrition Seminar (AG)
Friday, January 31, 2020 @ 4—6PM CALLING ALL students interested in learning more about livestock feed management and selection — You are invited to join us at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula for the Jr. Livestock Nutrition Seminar.
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Author Talk, Musical Performance and Crafts
Sunday, February 9, 2020 @ 1—3PM Join us for a special afternoon with author Toni Jannotta. Following Toni Jannotta’s talk on her book, “My Little Heart, Ruthie”, there will be a musical performance and a craft for visitors to participate in.
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VC Master Gardeners: Grow Your Town Tomatoes (AG)
Thurday, February 20, 2020 @ 12—2PM Join in on the fun at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula with a new gardening topic each month presented by Ventura County’s top Master Gardeners. Advanced registration advised.
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La Conchita: A Different Kind of Paradise Author Talk
Saturday, February 22, 2020 @ 3—4PM Join us at the Museum of Ventura County for an author talk with Dr. Bonnie G. Kelm, Ph.D, who will be discussing his book La Conchita: A Different Kind of Paradise. Admission is free for members, $5 for nonmembers.
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The Journal of
Ventura County
Roll Over The Ranchos
The Museum of Ventura County is pleased to announce that copies of the Journal of Ventura County’s newest edition, Volume 61 containing “Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884”, are now available for sale in the Museum’s store!
Originally published in 1955, these stories have been updated with additional photographs and both “A Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884” have been enhanced with updated footnotes, including biographical information and additional footnotes to help the reader place the geographic references and the people in that long ago time. The Journal is made possible by the generosity of Jim Holden, Linda Hadlen, Grace Brandt, and Mary Stewart.
The journal is available for purchase for $10 in the museum store and the e-book version is available for purchase exclusively through Amazon.
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Friday-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.!
The Albinger Archaeological Museum is located next to Mission San Buenaventura and was once the home to 5 different cultures spanning 3,500 years of history. Learn about the Chumash Indians, Chinese immigrants and others who resided on the site by viewing displays, and archaeological digs uncovered in 1974.
Displays of stone bowls, shell beads, arrowheads, bone whistles, crucifixes, bottles, buttons and pottery inside the exhibit building are complimented outside by excavations of the foundations of the lost mission church, Native American barracks, a tomol (plank canoe reproduction), a well and the oldest standing structure in Ventura County – the mission water filtration building.
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California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast
Step back in time to a cooler and more sophisticated era of design. This new exhibit explores the popular design movement in interior & graphic design, architecture, and urban development from 1945 to 1965.
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Virgencitas at the Ag
Virgencitas showcases a select group of artistic interpretations of Mary in a variety of mediums from artists in and around Ventura County. Those artists include Xavier Montes, Ray Cirerol, Syliva Raz, Gayel Childress, Heriberto Luna and more.
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Unbridled with the Compton Cowboys at the Ag
CLOSING JANUARY 19, 2020! The latest exhibit to ride into the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula is Compton Cowboys, a photo series documenting the work and mentorship of modern-day urban cowboys counseling at-risk youth in South Central Los Angeles.
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Woven Earth
Woven Earth is now open! Displaying a wide range of hand-woven baskets from the Museum’s extensive collection, this new exhibit focuses on California’s native communities and the traditions involved in making these baskets.
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Good Earth: Tilling the Soil at the Ag
The exhibit displays tilling equipment hand-picked from the Museum of Ventura County’s farm implements collection, on display in the Ag Museum’s beautiful native gardens. Good Earth: Tilling the Soil has been extended to April 5, 2020!
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Throwing Shade at the Ag
Throwing Shade provides a simple, focused examination of the coast live oak tree and its woodland community of plants and animals. Discover how the oak survives wildfire, drought (hot and dry periods), and how it reproduces.
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Major funding for these programs is made possible by the City of
San Buenaventura, the County of Ventura and private and community donors.
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Museum of Ventura County • 100 East Main St. Ventura, CA 93001 • 805.653.0323
Agriculture Museum • 926 Railroad Ave. Santa Paula, CA 93060 • 805.525.3100
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