Sunday Afternoon With Sandra Kearney, Discussing the Noyo Women's Rowing Crew February 12, 2017 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sandra Kearney will talk about the Noyo Women's Rowing Crew and what contemporary women on the Coast do for fun and recreation. This talk is in conjunction with the Museum's new exhibit, "Fun and Games: Mendocino at Play," running now through March 27.
Friday, January 27, 2017 to Monday, March 27, 2017 When the mills ceased their rumbling and whining and the labor force was home with their families or enjoying a Sunday afternoon, what was there to do? In this exhibit the Kelley House Museum displays some of the many photographs, archival treasures and objects related to fun and games in Mendocino. Before the electronic age which heralded [...]
Step back in time to an old-fashioned Victorian Christmas at the Kelley House. This seasonal exhibit runs through December 31, 2018. The tree is trimmed with period decorations. Toys and other holiday decorations from our archives are on display. Thanks to our volunteers for decorating and to Rosa Wyglendowski of L&R Farm for the garlands and botanical arrangements. Museum hours are Friday through Monday, 11:00AM to [...]
The Kelley House will offer extra historic walking tours over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The tours will cover the same sites as the regular Saturday and Sunday tours and will begin at 11:00 a.m. The cost is $10 per person. Tours will be offered on the following dates: Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 Daily, Friday, December 23 through Sunday, January 1
A membership to the Kelley House Museum is a wonderful holiday gift. Memberships start at $35.00/year for the whole family. Put someone you care about on the path to learning our local history. Click here for a membership form. We’ll send you or the recipient (whichever you prefer) a lovely card letting them know of your gift.
Sarah Bodnar and Gowan Batist are the women who put eating locally to the test for an entire year in 2013. They went entirely off the "industrial food system" and ate only those foods they could procure locally. As noted in an article in the Ukiah Daily Journal in February 2014, the experiment challenged the "inner pioneer woman." Bodnar and Batist will speak about the experience [...]
Enjoy a delicious dinner in the MacCallum House Dining Room or the Grey Whale Bar Cafe on your own schedule Wednesday, October 26th. The MacCallum House will donate proceeds from the bar and food to the Kelley House Museum! We are certain that long time Mendocino teacher Alma Mendosa, far right in this photo, would have wanted you to get a group together for the evening! [...]
Cherie Christiansen, host of the KZYX Farm and Garden Show and founder of the Seed Exchange at the Mendocino Farmer’s Market, will be the speaker Sunday, September 25 at the Kelley House Sunday Afternoon With… program in conjunction with the current exhibit When Farm to Table was Everyday. She will talk about why seeds—the beginning of any food crop—are essential to the health of our food, [...]
Join J.D. Johnson, Mendocino's pioneer builder and undertaker for a Mendocino Cemetery Tour. In the 1880s, he could house you in this life and the next! On October 1st he will introduce you to some of Mendocino's famous and not-so-famous historic characters at their final resting places. Be at the Kelley House, 45007 Albion St., Mendocino, at 6:00PM Saturday, October 1. The tour begins at 6:30 [...]
The Kelley House Museum’s new exhibit “When Farm to Table Was Every Day” presents the history of agriculture on the Mendocino coast, from the perspective of putting food on the table. The exhibit may first be viewed at a “Members Only” reception, Thursday evening, August 25th, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. at the Kelley House. The exhibit will be open to the public on the following [...]