Museums
Patrick Ranch Museum
Check pricesA historic ranch museum between Chico and Durham that presents local farming heritage through a collection, rotating exhibits, and displays.
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Museums
Museum of Northern California Art
An art museum in Chico that shows work by Northern California artists and hosts exhibitions, classes, and events.
900 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926 · Chico, CA
About Museum of Northern California Art
The Museum of Northern California Art, known as monca, is an art museum in Chico. It occupies the Veterans Memorial Hall building on the Esplanade. The museum presents rotating exhibitions, keeps permanent displays of regional artists, and gathers submissions from artists for selected shows. It also offers receptions, workshops, classes, and concerts, and runs a membership program for individuals, families, and businesses.
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What's around here?
The closest stops to Museum of Northern California Art, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.
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Gaumer's Jewelry & Museum
No admission feeA family jewelry store in Red Bluff with a free mineral, mining, and gem museum spanning four generations of collecting.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Sacramento Valley Museum
No admission feeA regional history museum in a former 1911 high school building in Williams, California, showing artifacts, textiles, and documents from the Sacramento Valley.
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South Yuba River State Park
Under $25River canyon park in the Sierra Nevada foothills with swimming holes, historic bridges, and Gold Rush-era trails.
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Lassen Volcanic National Park
$25–$50Drive the 30-mile park highway past steaming fumaroles and Lassen Peak, then hike to Bumpass Hell, the park's largest hydrothermal area.
51 mi awaySwitch it up: Sports & Outdoors
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Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park
Under $25Gold Rush-era hydraulic mine site with dramatic eroded cliffs and a preserved historic mining town.
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