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Admission:

Museum Members - Free
Adults - $10.00
Seniors (60+) - $9.00
Students, ages 13-17 - $9.00
Students, ages 6-12 - $8.00
Children, ages 3-5 - $7.00
Children under 3 - Free

Wed-Sun: 10:00am-5:00pm
Tickets sold until 3:00p.m.

Contact Us:

Kern County Museum
3801 Chester Avenue
Bakersfield, CA 93301
(661) 868-8400 phone
(661) 322-6415 fax

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Collections and Research

Collections:

• Exhibits
  
  
• 1893 Painting by Thaddeus Welch of the Jewett Ranch
  
  
• 1867 Portrait of Maybella Ramona Pacheco
  
  
• 1901 Portrait of Philo Jewett by Hiram Reynolds Bloomer
  
  
• Souther Ditch Plow
  
  
• Neon Signs
  
  
• Smilodon and Panthera Leo Atrox   
  
  
• 1962 Bakersfield Musicans Union Telephone Directory
  
  
• Mortar Rock
  
  
• Monuments and Markers

 

Research:

• Black History Month
  
  
• Architects Who Designed Buildings in Kern County
  
  
• Kern County Photographers to 1950
  
  
• Dates of Discovery of Kern County Oil Fields
  
  
• Bakersfield Dog Registration Books Article
  Index to the City of Bakersfield Dog License Books - 1898, 1900, and 1901 (warning: some of the names and descriptions may be offensive to some readers)
  
  
• Full text of Wallace M. Morgan's History of Kern County, California with biographical sketches of the men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, 1914, is available at the Internet Archive (this link will take you to a non-museum site): http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofkerncou00morg/historyofkerncou00morg_djvu.txt
  
  
• 1901 Bird's-Eye-View of Bakerfield is available from the Library of Congress (this link will take you to a non-museum site)

 

Miscellaneous:

• Caring For Your Family Treasures
  
  
• Kern County Museum History
  

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