These six museums in Northern California offer free entry and take visitors on journeys through history, from early technologies to maritime artifacts, firefighting equipment, and more.
Museum of American Heritage
Located in Palo Alto, the Museum of American Heritage is dedicated to collecting, preserving, and displaying historic innovations and technologies from 1750 to 1950.It opened to the public in 1990 with 600 artifacts and continued to collect a broad range of electrical and mechanical items. The museum now has a vast collection of over 8,000 artifacts displayed in rotating exhibits.
