Classified for credit

Museum at USC dedicated to Pacific Asian art and cultural history — covers Asian civilizations, trade history, and cross-cultural social studies.

General Mariano Vallejo's home in Sonoma — Mexican-California (Alta California) and Bear Flag Revolt history.

Vallejo museum covering the history of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard and California maritime heritage.

San Fernando Valley pop-culture and neon-sign museum preserving mid-20th-century California commercial history and Americana artifacts.

Maritime museum on the Ventura County coast covering regional naval and commercial seafaring history, navigation, and ship technology.

Veterans memorial military museum with artifact displays — covers U.S. military history from multiple conflicts for history and civics curriculum.

Museum preserving the military and civilian history of the Republic of Vietnam — covers Cold War history, the Vietnam War, and Southeast Asian refugee immigration.

Ornate 1887 Victorian mansion in San Diego interpreted as a historic house museum — covers Gilded Age architecture, decorative arts, and California history.

Warner Bros. transportation/picture-car museum — film history and the engineering of cinema vehicles.

California state park preserving a Miwuk ceremonial roundhouse — Native California history, indigenous culture, and pre-contact archaeology.

Railroad museum in Barstow with restored locomotives and rolling stock — covers the history of western US rail expansion and transportation.

Museum covering the history of westward migration and pioneer trails in California — supports U.S. expansion, frontier life, and Western history curriculum.

California State Parks-operated 19th-century general store preserved as a living-history site — covers Gold Rush-era commerce and early California settlement.

Two 19th-century family homesteads preserved as a living-history site covering California rancho, pioneer, and Victorian domestic history.

Regional museum focused on Native American cultures of Northern California — indigenous history, material culture, and tribal heritage.

Historic Sierra Club lodge inside Yosemite National Park documenting the early conservation movement — covers environmental history, land-use policy, and John Muir's legacy.

County museum covering Amador County's Gold Rush, mining, and pioneer settlement history in California's Mother Lode region.

Specialty museum documenting the role of mules in American agriculture and military history, with artifacts and exhibits.

Small museum documenting Anderson Valley's logging, ranching, and agricultural heritage — California local and rural social history curriculum.

Small community museum in Aptos documenting Santa Cruz County settlement and local agricultural history.

Atascadero Historical Museum covering the planned colony founding and early 20th-century California civic history — local and California history.

Archaeological museum holding Near Eastern artifacts from Pacific School of Religion excavations — supports ancient history and biblical archaeology curriculum.

Preserved California state capitol building from 1853–1854 — covers the history of California statehood and early legislative government.

Historic Big Four railroad building in Old Sacramento — Transcontinental Railroad history.