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| Riverside Metropolitan Museum |
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| Baskets, brilliant stones, and dinosaur
bones greet you at the Municipal Museum. Built in 1914 in the
Italian Renaissance style, this former U.S. Post Office building
now highlights Riverside's diverse communities and rich cultural
heritage. The Museum's natural history section tells the story
of the Southland's plants and animals with life-sized dioramas
of the desert and mountains. You will even find a mountain lion
crouched on a ledge and hear it roar. |
| UCR
California Museum of Photography |
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| The innovative contemporary exhibitions of UCR/CMP explore photography's
relationship to politics, art and society. Housed in a dime store
renovated in 1990, this facility of the University of California,
Riverside, also exhibits Ansel Adams photographs, examples of cameras
from 1839 to the digital present, and a world-renowned collection
of stereoscope cards. |
| Riverside
Art Museum |
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| Contemporary and historic Southern California artists are showcased
in changing exhibitions at the Art Museum, once the city's Mediterranean-style
YMCA. Julia Morgan, architect of the Hearst Castle, designed this
small gem of a building in 1929. Converted to a museum later in
the century, the building was added to the National Register of
Historic Places in 1982. |
| Mission
Inn Museum |
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| Experience the sights and sounds of turn-of-the-century
Riverside at one of the nation's grand hotels, the Mission Inn. Its collections,
gathered from around the world by the hotel's founder, Frank
Miller, have adorned the Inn's mix of architectural styles since
its earliest days. Many of these artifacts are now housed in
the Mission Inn Museum. |
| La
Sierra University Museum of Natural History |
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| Founded by Billy Hankins, M.D., who developed a technique for
preserving animals so perfectly you will think they are really
alive. Specimens are prepared by sculpture and freeze dried taxidermy. |
| La
Sierra University Stahl Center Museum of Culture |
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| The Stahl Center Museum of Culture is a rich cultural experience.
View unique items from around the world. The current Stahl Center
Museum of Culture exhibit is Games, Puppets, and Toys from Around
the World |
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