The California Museum

On Saturday, The California Museum had free admission thanks to Target. We've never actually been and it's just downtown so I figured we'd check it out. It was pretty crowded, due to the free admission I'm sure, but it was great to see what they had to offer.


This museum focuses mainly on women, history and art of California. They also have the "hall of fame" about successful people, men and women, of California.


This is an exhibit about Dave Brubeck, one of my favorite Jazz artists.


And my all time favorite author, Theodore Geisel aka Dr. Seuss, had a tiny room as part of his exhibit.


In the Dr. Seuss room there was some of his art work.


And head hangings of some of his characters.


Another section I enjoyed was this area on Dorthea Lange, a famous photographer. She took the famous Migrant Mother photo.


As a special part of the Target family day at the museum there were arts and crafts for the kids to do. That's where Carley enjoyed spending most of her time.


They made whales out of blue paper bags.


And decorated pictures of trout with sequins.


All in all I was pleasantly surprised with this museum that I've never been to before. I look forward to going back again, maybe without Carley who doesn't like to stay in one place long enough to read anything.


Just so all y'all don't think I have kids that behave perfectly through all of our family outings here is a picture that Josh took of me giving Carley a time out as we were trying to leave the museum. In fact I had to sit her back in time out several times because she wouldn't stay there. Fun.