Resources

Arts and Culture

• Agua Caliente Cultural Museum The museum preserves, interprets, and provides access to unique pieces of the Agua Caliente history and culture.
• Antelope Valley Indian Museum The museum's collections emphasizes the Southwestern, California and Great Basin Indians, although it contains artifacts from a number of other geographic regions.
• Autry Museum of the American West The Autry is a museum dedicated to bringing together the stories of all peoples of the American West.
• Bowers Museum of Cultural Art This museum houses an extensive permanent collection of Native American art, stone and shell carvings, and spectacular basketry exhibiting use of plant fiber and feathers.
• California Indian Basketweavers Association CIBA’s goal is to preserve, promote, and perpetuate California Indian basket weaving traditions while providing a healthy physical, social, spiritual, and economic environment for basketweavers.
• California Indian Basketweavers Association (CIBA)
• California Indian Museum and Cultural Center Educating the public about the history, culture, and contemporary life of California Indians.
• California Indian Storytellers Association Support Native California Indian storytellers, honor our elders, pass on storytelling traditions and culture and work with groups sharing a common vision.
• California State Indian Museum Exhibits traditional items illustrating the varying cultures of the state's first inhabitants.
• Chumash Indian Museum Historical site and living history center dedicated to restoring and preserving Chumash historical, cultural, material and present-day influence as well as the natural environment and historical significance of this site.
• Clarke Historical Museum Dedicated to sharing and preserving the history of Humboldt county, includes beautiful basket collection exhibit.
• Cupa Cultural Center The Cupa Center is dedicated to supporting cultural preservation, traditional arts, and language of the Pala community.
• Eastern California Museum Collects, preserves, and interprets objects and information related to the cultural and natural history of Inyo County and the Eastern Sierra, from Death Valley to Mono Lake.
• Eiteljorg Museum Museum dedicated to the contemporary arts, cultures, and histories of the American West and the Indigenous peoples of North America.
• Forge Project Forge Project is a Native-led non-profit organization whose mandate is to cultivate and advance Indigenous leadership in arts and culture.
• Gorman Museum of Native American Art UC Davis Museum of contemporary Native Art.
• Goudi'ni Native American Arts Gallery Cal Poly Humboldt gallery honoring living culture through the presentation of contemporary and traditional Native American art.
• Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park Features a variety of exhibits and a vast collection of Sierra Nevada Indian artifacts.
• Ink People Center for the Arts The organization encourages people to exercise their humanity, build civic discourse, and engage their creative potential.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art Holds more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present.
• Maidu Museum & Historic Site Offers a unique cultural haven for families and individuals who want to experience the life ways and culture of the Nisenan Maidu who called this location home for thousands of years .
• Malki Museum Committed to preserving the cultural traditions and history of the Cahuilla Indians and other southern California Indian tribes.
• Maturango Museum Sponsors many programs and tours, including tours to the world-famous Coso petroglyphs.
• Mission Dolores Mission Dolores in San Francisco, led by two Ohlone curators, is making huge efforts to transform the Mission experience, while focusing on California Indian survival, perseverance, and continuity in spite of hardships of Spanish colonization.
• Miwok Archaeological Preserve of Marin MAPOM seeks to promote accurate knowledge of the Coast Miwok Indians, the first people of Marin and southern Sonoma counties.
• Museum of the American Indian Nestled within the heart of Miwok Park, the Living Cultural Center of the American Indian strives to honor the living traditions and contemporary contributions of Indigenous communities.
• National Museum of the American Indian NMAI has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.
• Northern Californian Indian Development Council Shop the work of over 40 Native artists, local and out-of-the-area.
• Oakland Museum of California The California Indian collections contain everyday and ceremonial objects, including thousands of baskets from hundreds of Native cultural groups across the state.
• Palm Springs Art Museum Features 19th, 20th, and 21st century works focusing on contemporary California art, classic western and Native American art.
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Gallery closed while staff prioritize repatriation under NAGPRA & CalNAGPRA. The Hearst is able to provide limited access to their collection for UC Berkeley research and teaching, as well as visits from tribal communities.
• Riverside Metropolitan Museum The Museum houses over 100,000 artitacts in its collections in the disciplines of Natural History, Anthropology, and History.
• San Bernardino County Museum Through the lens of the region’s dynamic cultural and natural history, the San Bernardino County Museum develops visitors’ appreciation of our diverse regional identity.
• San Diego Museum of Man Cultural anthropology museum that stewards cultural resources from a global population–representing over 200 Indigenous communities.
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History The collections contain more than three million artifacts and specimens in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, vertebrate and invertebrate biology, geology and paleontology, art, library, and archives.
• Santa Rosa Junior College Museum Traditional Native American art makes up the greatest portion of the collection, with all of the North American Indian culture areas represented. Art forms include ceramics, basketry, beadwork, sculpture, textiles, and jewelry.
• Sherman Indian Museum The museum manages archives, collects Native materials, and provides a training venue for Sherman Indian High School’s archives and museum programs.
• Tomo-Kahni State Park (Kawaiisu) Tomo-Kahni, or "Winter Village," was the site of a Kawaiisu (Nuwa) village.
• Turtle Bay Exploration Park Exhibits feature a mix of richly layered interpretative material, multimedia exhibits, science experiments, self-guided exploration, and play features.