Museums in the Mother Lode

Angels Camp Museum

Calaveras Historical Museum

Gateway Museum

Heritage Museum

Murphys Old Timers Museum

New Melones Lake Visitors Center

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park

Sierra Nevada Logging Museum

Sonora Fire Museum

Tuolumne City Memorial Museum

Tuolumne County Museum & History Center

Veterans Memorial Hall & Military Museum

Yosemite National Park Museums

Angels Camp Museum
Three Acres of artifacts including a Pelton water wheel, mining equipment and an intricate working model of a stamp mill. The extensive collection carriages, carts, and wagons will remind you of when horses helped to carry almost everything.

Calaveras Historical Museum
Calaveras County Historical Museum The Calaveras County Historical Museum encompases three seperate places. The downtown Museum...

Gateway Museum
Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum / Library Before heading into Yosemite make a stop in Groveland to see the Groveland Yosemite Gateway Museum. They have displays and 1/20th scale models of the people and places that shaped life in the Motherlode over the last two centuries.

Heritage Museum

Heritage Museum

Hours: 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m. daily

With a few exhibits of early California Gold Rush History this is the place to check out when you are at Ironstone vineyard for one of their many lovely events.

You can't miss the huge Alhambra Theater Pipe organ. Even more impressive is the astounding crystalline gold leaf specimen. It is the largest of its kind in the world, all forty-four pounds of it!

Murphys Old Timers Museum
Murphys Old Timers Museum on Main Street has mining displays from the Gold Rush.......

New Melones Lake Visitors Center
New Melones Lake Visitors Center & Museum New Melones Lake Visitor Center and Museum were completed as a part of the New Melones project in 1992. The modern displays and exhibits are about

Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park More than a Museum railtown it is an experience! While riding the train is lovely in the summer the guided tour of the Park's working railroad roundhouse is enriching.

Sierra Nevada Logging Museum

The Sierra Nevada Logging Museum tells the history of loggers and logging-related industries in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California – from the discovery of gold in 1848 to the present day.

The 2400-square foot building has working models of sawmills and logging camps, historic logging photos, dioramas illustrating the evolution of logging from the 1850s to the present day, and a large collection of logging tools. The museum also has a library/research room that is available for those seeking more information about our lumbering heritage.

Sonora Fire Museum
Sonora Fire Museum This Museum has wonderful displays of some historic fire fighting equipment. In the Goldrush days water was vital...

Tuolumne City Memorial Museum
Here you will find five galleries featuring antique objects and clothing. There is the "Spirit of the Pioneer Gallery" and the "Kitchen & Laundry Gallery". The most memorable is...

Tuolumne County Museum & History Center
Tuolumne County Museum & History Center Tuolumne County Museum and History Center is housed in the historic 1857 Tuolumne County Jail. It brings to life the history of Tuolumne County's six geographical regions and tells the story of arduous treks across the Sierra Nevada both prior to and shortly after the Gold Rush.

Veterans Memorial Hall & Military Museum
Veterans Memorial Hall & Military Museum "Biggest Little Museum on War for the purpose of Promoting Peace" This museum has the usual antique guns and uniforms...

Yosemite National Park Museums
Yosemite National Park Museums The Yosemite Valley Visitor Center has a new exhibit hall, where you can learn how Yosemite’s spectacular landscape was formed...