Best Heritage Museum Downey Near Me

4worldlovers: Heritage Square Museum is a family-friendly museum of historic architectural buildings that explores the settlement and development of Southern California from the late 1800s to early 1900s, offering guests of all ages the ability to explore the everyday lives of Southern Californians during the Victorian era of Los Angeles.

We offer many ways to enjoy the grounds – including general outdoor admission, guided tours of the buildings, movie nights, haunted ghost tours, holiday events, and more!

We acknowledge that the land we are on is the home and traditional land belonging to the Gabrielino-Tongva Nation.

We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants ─ past, present, and emerging ─ as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters.

4worldlovers:
SAT JUNE 17 and SUN 18 for the Jazz Festival at the Bowl


Admission: Hollywood Heritage Members - Free (Join at the door or online)

4worldlovers: Stop by the Gilb Museum between October 2023 and January 2024 to decorate your own red envelope! Decorated red envelopes will be featured in a Lunar New Year exhibit in February 2024!

Enjoy some museum fun with new activities that encourage exploration, teamwork, and imagination. Every Friday from 10-11am.

Join the Museum staff in a series of workshops and demonstrations on how you can preserve your personal and family history. Learn preservation methods used by museum professionals and see examples from the Gilb Museum collection. RSVP required.

To register for the Genealogy Preservation Workshop on Saturday, December 16, click HERE

4worldlovers: Quilt artist Alice Beasley has been producing astounding textile work since 1988. Now more important than ever, her artwork often displays a rare look into the world of social justice and politics and their affects upon the Black community. The artist’s work adresses social issues that are reflective of her experiences: Born Tuskegee, Alabama in 1954, her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where Alice grew up. She attended Marygrove College where she received a degree in Journalism. In 1970, she moved to California, and in 1975 she received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley — with an emphasis in Civil Rights and Consitutional Law. She then worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund specializing in Civil Rights legislation. In the late 1980s Ms. Beasley became an attorney by day and a quilt artist by night. She remembers fondly that many of the women in her family created beautiful works of art with their hands, thus, she carried on the tradition. Fabric is her chosen medium of expression through which she creates realistic portraits of people and objects. She finds color, light, shadow, line and value in the pattern of ordinary household fabrics. Beasley never uses solid colored fabrics, prefering prints that are pieced together to present images that convey her feelings on specific topics from African American woman’s point of view.

100% heavy-weight water color paper, acid free. hand torn deckle edge, a Giclee print. Very rare, small edition. Mark Mahoney is a Boston born tattoo artist, considered the "founding father" of "Black and Grey" art with a single needle.

Internationally renowned photographer. The artist is deceased and is considered a "National Treasure of Mexico". Signed, numbered and titled by artist. 100% acid-free rag paper.

Two sheets of acid-free paper. Bottom sheet is handmade rice paper and the top sheet is a collaged image of a Japanese newspaper also on a 100% rag. The bulk of the print is done by silkscreen.