Best Museum Ventura Near Me

4worldlovers: Thanks to the generosity of our community, the Museum of Ventura County can continue to offer free admission in 2023.

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This 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.

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The Museum will be closed on Thursday, June 8. It will reopen on Friday, June 9.

There’s always something new to learn from our permanent and temporary exhibitions. Our curator and creative minds are working around the clock in order to ensure that our visitors always find something new to discover at the Channel Islands Maritime Museum. Take a look at our current and upcoming exhibitions.


The Mission of the Channel Islands Maritime Museum is to preserve and share the wonders of our maritime heritage, highlight our complex interrelationships with the ecology of The Ocean, and showcase people’s creative expressions of everything related to the sea.

CIMM is a renowned institution dedicated to preserving and interpreting maritime arts and culture. We offer a wide variety of exhibitions, programs, and educational opportunities for visitors of all ages.

Help the Channel Islands Maritime Museum continue to grow and flourish. We are eternally grateful to all of our benefactors who contribute towards keeping us alive. All proceeds are directly reinvested into making the museum a better and more accessible place for you, your family, and the community.

4worldlovers: Become an Equipment Operator (EO). Visit us for a "Big Rig " day, where you can see trucks Seabees use. On the Second Saturday of every month, the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum will host our Junior Seabee program, designed for children ages 5-12. Each month we will explore one of the seven Seabee rates with different interactive projects and a Seabee guest.


Care to bake? Come in and see how a Construction Electrician (CE) can bake in a solar-powered oven. On the Second Saturday of every month, the U.S. Navy Seabee Museum will host our Junior Seabee program, designed for children ages 5-12. Each month we will explore one of the seven Seabee rates with different interactive projects and a Seabee guest.


1942 - The Battle of Midway begins. During that morning, after sending planes to attack the U.S. base at Midway, Japanese carriers are fatally damaged.