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Ferndale Museum

About Ferndale Museum

The nonprofit Ferndale Museum, located in Ferndale, California, houses and exhibits artifacts, documents and papers from settlement during the California Gold Rush to the present including an active Bosch-Omori seismograph. The area of collection covers the lower Eel River Valley as far south as the Mattole River Valley and west to the Pacific Ocean. Collections include over 8,000 photographs, back issues of the Ferndale Enterprise newspaper, and family papers spanning 150 years.

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Photos of Ferndale Museum

  1. Ferndale Museum, Ferndale01FerndaleEllin Beltz · Public domain
  2. Blacksmithing Demonstration at Ferndale Museum02Blacksmithing Demonstration at Ferndale MuseumNytasi · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. Seth Louis Shaw03Seth Louis ShawEllin Beltz · Public domain
  4. Isabella Shaw by Stephen Shaw04Isabella Shaw by Stephen ShawStephen William Shaw · Public domain
  5. Ferndale, CA 95536, USA05Ferndale, CA , USARoman Eugeniusz · CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. Ferndale, CA 95536, USA06Ferndale, CA , USARoman Eugeniusz · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Nearby museums

Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 16 miles of Ferndale Museum; the closest, Redwoods Museum of Culture and Natural History, is about 7.2 miles away.