Contact Us
The Kern County Museum has a new phone number and email address. Our main telephone number is 868-8400. Our email address is: KCMuseum@KCMuseum.org

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The Kern County Museum was founded in 1941 and serves more than 85,000 people each year from its 16-acre site north of downtown Bakersfield.
The Kern County Museum features:
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Pioneer Village, over 55 historic buildings and exhibits.
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Black Gold: The Oil Experience, an award-winning, hands-on oil exhibition.
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Lori Brock Children's Discovery Center, for youth ages eight and under.
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The Bakersfield Sound, an exhibit of local country music artifacts.
The museum is consistently recognized for providing some of the most outstanding educational programs in the state of California, such as Native American Life, and Living History Day: Frontier Life in Kern County.



