Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Past Exhibits

The Museum features core, special, and online exhibitions, which display artifacts from the Museum’s Collections as well as loaned artifacts. While not all artifacts are on display, the Museum collections houses over 100,000 artifacts in its collections and 2000 linear feet of archives and include: Natural History, Anthropology, and History.

• Permanent
  • Nature Lab
  • Curiosities- How Curiosity Has Inspired Museums to Collect
• Naturalist Edmund C. Jaeger and the Riverside Region
• Along the Santa Ana
• Online
  • Heritage House
  • Reading the Walls: The Struggle of the Haradas, A Japanese American Family
  • Plant Communities of Riverside County
    
• Previous Exhibits
  • Chasing the Sun: Early Riverside Photographers | July 2, 2015 - July 20, 2016
  • I Want the Wide American Earth | March 5, 2015 - May 31, 2015
  • John Muir & the Personal Experience with Nature |  December 2, 2012 - October 26, 2014
  • Force of Arms (November 10, 2011 - July 27, 2014)
  • Rin Tin Tin
  • Beyond Craft
  • Adornment
  • Hobos to Street People (January 13 - April 29, 2012)
  • Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider (May 10 - November 4, 2012)
  • 100 Years of Girl Scouts (September 15 - November 25, 2012)
  • Telling Riverside's Story in 50 Objects | Now - September 4, 2016