The Headen-Inman House includes a museum with photographs and artifacts related to the history of Santa Clara. Rotating exhibits by the Santa Clara Art Association are on display.

The Triton Museum of Art collects and exhibits contemporary and historical works with an emphasis on artists of the Greater Bay Area. The permanent collection includes 19th and 20th century American art of the Pacific Rim, Europe and beyond. Our goal is to use an...

The de Saisset Museum supports Santa Clara University's goal of educating the whole person through a diverse and accessible range of exhibitions, collections, and educational programs that highlight the art and history of the San Francisco Bay Area and the local...

The Harris - Lass House Museum is the last farm site in the city of Santa Clara and is named for the two families who owned and lived on the property for 125 years. The museum consists of the house, a classic California barn, summer kitchen, tank house and...

Since 1989, the SBHRS museum has accumulated a collection of railroad artifacts, some which date back to the 1870s and earlier. The museum concentrates on western railroads but does have a reasonable collection of Midwest and Eastern railroad hand lanterns and switch...

Santa Clara’s oldest adobe structure features documents, objects, and other artifacts from the era before California’s statehood in 1851. In the 1840s a simple adobe dwelling was built by Chrisóstómo Galindo approximately a mile west of Mission Santa Clara....

The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden (5.5 acres) is a rose garden located in San Jose, California. The garden was once a prune orchard, but was bought by San Jose in 1927 and is now exclusively devoted to roses. It features more than 3,500 rose shrubs representing 189...

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM), founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at AMORC's Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. The Rosicrucian Order continues to...

The Intel Museum has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general. The museum was started in the early 1980's as an internal project at Intel to record its history. It opened to the public in 1992, later being expanded in...

The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known California mansion that was under construction continuously for 38 years, and is reported to be haunted. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester, but is now...