Placer County
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Bernhard Museum
291 Auburn-Folsom Road
Auburn
(530) 888-6891
A residence and adjacent winery buildings reflect family life in the late Victorian era.
Foresthill Dive Museum
24601 Harrison Street
Foresthill
(530) 367-3988
www.foresthillhistory.org
offers many displays that give visitors a good idea of life on the Divide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Exhibits include Gold Rush artifacts, a logging exhibit which includes a scale model of the lumber mill and educational displays on Native Americans.
Gold Country Museum
1273 High Street
Auburn
(530) 887-0690
The museum is located in a historic Works Progress Administration building, provding information of Placer County Gold Rush history.
Joss House Museum & Chinese History Center
200 Sacramento Street
Old Town Auburn
(530) 888-6483
The original temple altar is preserved in this Chinese house of worship. The museum has displays of artifacts representative of the lives of the Chinese people during the California Gold Rush.
Placer County Courthouse Museum
101 Maple Street
Auburn, CA 95603
(530) 889-6500
The museum features the Pate Collection of Native American Art, containing artifacts from all of California, the southwest, the northwest coast, Alaska and the eastern United States.