Santa Monica History Museum Opens October 24th

The Santa Monica History Museum will hold its grand opening on Sunday, October 24th from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at their new location at 1350 7th Street.  The new museum features a 5,300 square fot faciity located in the Santa Monica Main Library.

 

The central area of the museum features four different exhibits.  The Town In The Headlines exhibit features more than 500,000 images from Santa Monica's longtime newspaper, The Evening Outlook (no longer in business).  As a special attraction, museum visitors can superimpose their picture onto the front page of an issue of the Evening Outlook.

A Town At Work addresses the history of the McDonald Douglas Plant which used to operate at the Santa Monica airport.  The exhibit includes a DC-3 cockpit (one of the coolest airplanes of all times) and a series of artifacts from the era.

The third exhibition is entitled A Town At Play featuring a model roller coaster from the old Santa Monica Pier.  The final exhibit, A Town In The Arts allows visitors to view pictures from various locations around Santa Monica taken in the past and matched with photos taken in 2010.

For more information, visit their website at: http://www.santamonicahistory.org

OPEN:
Tuesday - Friday  10:00 - 4:30
2nd & 4th Sundays    1:00 - 4:00
Monday  closed

ADMISSION:
General                         $5
Members                      free
Seniors & Students      $2
Children 12 & under    free

Santa Monica Historical Society Museum
1539 Euclid Street
Santa Monica, CA  90404
Tel: (310) 395-2290

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