(925) 837-3750
Located at the corner of Railroad and Prospect Avenues in Downtown Danville
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Upcoming Exhibits and Walking Tours
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2012 Exhibits
May 8 – July 14: Gold Rush Exhibit
On January 24, 1848 the American River resounded to the cry “Gold! Gold!” Thousands headed to California from the Midwest and Eastern parts of America. They came from Canada, China, Hawaii, Mexico and places across the globe. Most prospectors made their fortune however large and soon turned to what they knew best, their businesses, farms, and professions. California and the San Ramon Valley changed forever.
This exhibit tells that story from the first electric moment until it played out in our own San Ramon Valley with the arrival of miners searching for attractive home sites. Pioneer San Ramon Valley families became established and there are trail diaries, rifles that protected them on the trek over the endless prairies and mountains, and more to prove it.
The Museum will support the formal exhibit with tools used in placer mining: gold pans, a sluice box, gold molds, a miner’s poke, sizing forks, etc. When the easy placer gold was gone, hard rock mine tunnels were dug and actual hand drills, miner’s candles, a can that held black blasting powder, mercury to pull the gold from the ore and many other artifacts will be displayed. Finally the devastating hydraulic mining practice that radically transformed the Sierra landscape relied on hydraulic hoses and nozzles to blast out the gold. Actual documents will tell many stories in print.July 24 – August 18: Trains
August 23 - November 3: Native American Baskets Exhibit; Gatekeepers Museum, Tahoe City
September 14 – November 3: Indian Life Exhibit & Program
November 13 – December 29: Christmas Memories Exhibit
2013 Exhibits
January 22 - April 20: Rock, Paper, Scissors: History of Paper
May 4 - June 29: Treasures From Our Trunk
July 3 - August 17: Trains
August 22 - September 29: Quilts
October 4 - November 9: Indian Life
November 14 - December 29: Christmas Memories
Alamo Historic Cemetery Tours
The next tour of the cemetery will be in April 2012.
Open to the
public, no reservation required.
Meet at the Alamo Cemetery at the designated time.
Call or email Museum to confirm the dates.
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