Since the 19th century, baseball and photography have grown up together. From the grandeur of the early game to the vibrancy of today's sport, every facet of our National Pastime has been captured in sepia, color and black-and-white. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's collection of approximately 350,000 unique images is the world's premiere repository of baseball photographs, spanning well over 150 years of the sport's history. Accompanied by the words of those who were there, the Hall of Fame presents a selection of timeless photographs, each picturing America's pastime. Special adjacent exhibit opening of LASORDA LEGACY: A TRIBUTE TO BASEBALL and DODGERS LEGEND TOMMY LASORDA.    The evening will include live entertainment, a specialty bar, and a curator’s talk with special guests author Chris Epting and Laura Lasorda.

Picturing America's Pastime & Lasorda Legacy Opening

Join us as the City of Fullerton and the Fullerton Museum Center come together to celebrate TOMMY LASORDA with a STREET FAIR on Wilshire in front of FMC. Food and drinks by Monkey Business Cafe Food Truck, Play Coffee, Mexico Lindo, Lasorda Wines, FMC Beer Garden, live music, special guest speakers, Baseball author and historians roundtable discussion, Artist-in-Focus with featured artist Christopher Paluso, vendors and city services like Fullerton Parks & Recreation, Fullerton Public Library, Fullerton Firefighters and much more.

Lasorda Street Fair

This October, explore some chillingly fascinating sites around Fullerton. FMC's Haunted Fullerton Walking Tours include visits and stories of the unknown surrounding Villa de Sol, the Schumacher Building, Fox Theatre and Fullerton High School's Auditorium among others. Tours meet every Wednesday and Thursday inside the Fullerton Museum Center at 6 PM. We'll be starting off with a ghoulish cocktail mixer hosted by your ghost guides then off to a 1.5 mile walk. A special Halloween tour will be on Thursday, October 27th and Friday, October 28th!

Haunted Fullerton Walking Tours

Join us every Thursday for fun vibes and drinks at our Beer & Wine Garden. What's on Tap? Only the best! Beer, wine, and mixed drinks. All proceeds benefit the Fullerton Museum Center.

FMC's Beer Garden

Calling all Poets, Singers, Songwriters, Storytellers, Comedians, Musicians, Magicians... Get on the open mic!!! Sign-ups start at 7pm

Light The Mic

Carvin Jones, the "King of Strings", is an explosive blues front man who astounds crowds with his raw talent and charisma. Carvin has played 36 countries on 3 continents and has been well received by critics and fans alike. Carvin and his band currently average around 330 live performances a year. Carvin Jones was born in Lufkin, Texas. His remarkable energy, showmanship and guitar ability have made him a favorite of music fans and fellow musicians alike all over the world. At a very young age, he was seduced by the blues by listening to BB King records his grandfather constantly played in the house and started playing guitar himself by age 11. He escaped a rough neighborhood by dedicating his time to his guitar and by age 19 had moved to Arizona to start his music career. In January 2001, Guitarist Magazine named Carvin Jones "one of the top 50 blues guitarists of all time!" Carvin endorses Fender Guitars and Amplifiers. The King of Strings will be headlining FMC's Fender Gallery Benefit Concert Saturday, October 22nd at the Fullerton Downtown Plaza. "Doors" open at 5pm with food, drinks, and pre-show fun.

Carvin Jones: Fender Gallery Benefit Concert

This Thursday join us for a full Market and Beer Garden as we celebrate OktoBOOfest. Speciality cocktails, craft beer, live music, photo opportunities, Trick-or-treating, craft & food vendors and more!

OktoBOOfest

Fall Film Series: A League Of Their Own

Light The Mic: Dia de los Muertos Edition

Recommended for Grades 4-6. Guitar, base, drums and voice. Special performance at Fullerton Downtown Plaza’s Winter Market on 12/3

Saturday Music Studio

Fall Film Series: Take Me Out To The Ball Game

1 drink coupon with purchase + all supplies included

Wine & Paint Night: Landscapes

Baseball expert, tv host, author of “Roadside Baseball” & “Baseball In Orange County”

Writer-In-Focus: In Conversation with Chris Epting

Fall Film Series: Field Of Dreams

Come see our new foyer exhibit this December featuring Phil Young! Phill Young was an amazing artist who worked as an animator for Disney, an illustrator, and a sculptor. This exhibit was curated by our very own Sheri Meinburg, a Fullerton College Museum Studies Intern and we are proud to display this exhibit with her vision. The Foyer exhibit is free admission and will be available from December 1st to December 30th. Our opening reception is this Thursday, December 1st 4-6pm.

The Art of Phil Young Opening Reception

Join us this Friday for our December Light the Mic!  We have two awesome poet features with @anthonyacreator and @soulstuf !!  Our MC for the night is Heather Pease @ohpoetic1  Sign ups open at 7pm for all talent whether it be singing music, slamming poetry, or performing something magical. We hope to see you there!

Beer + Wine Garden inside the plaza, Artisan Craft + Unique Vendors, Pictures with Santa, Adult + Kids' Activities, Holiday Performances, Food Trucks, Music and more

Winter Market 2022

Wine & Paint Night: Abstract portraits


20% off for members, 10% off for nonmembers, free giftwrapping

Shopping Soiree

Award-winning director Roberto Angotti and nationally-renowned artist Christopher Paluso will appear at the Fullerton Museum Center on Saturday afternoon, December 10, 2022 from 1 to 4 pm. The National Italian American Foundation Russo Brothers Film Forum award-winning Italian American Baseball Family will screen at 1:30 pm and be followed by an informative Q and A with director Roberto Angotti and artist/illustrator Christopher Paluso.

Introducing Team Italy Manager Mike Piazza will make its Southern California premiere at 3 pm. Grammy-nominated artist and reggae legend Pato Banton, who produced the soundtrack to the documentary celebrating the life and career of National Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza, will be in attendance along with some very special guests. Directed by former KROQ radio DJ Roberto Angotti, Introducing Team Italy Manager Mike Piazza comes out just in time for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

A limited-edition commemorative poster designed by artist Christopher Paluso will be available for purchase on the day of the event. Audience members are encouraged to arrive early to enjoy the current Fullerton Museum exhibitions on display: Picturing America’s Pastime: A Snapshot of the Photograph Collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and Lasorda Legacy: A Tribute To Baseball and Dodgers Legend Tommy Lasorda. The Fullerton Museum Center is located at 301 N. Pomona Avenue in Fullerton and is open from 12 noon to 4 pm on Saturday, December 10, 2022. Tickets can be purchased at the door.

Italian American Baseball Family

Downtown Fullerton get ready for holiday cheer through the streets! Saturday, December 17th the Dardens will be singing their way through downtown Fullerton and FMC is stop #2. Special SENIOR programming abd Beer Garden from 6-8pm. All are welcome to join in the fun. Thank you to all of our sponsors!!

Free event, live music, hot chocolate bar, beer garden & more at FMC.

Darden Thru The Snow

Wine & Paint Night: Dream Collages

Opening Saturday, January 21st, 2023, MANZANAR: THE WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANSEL ADAMS features fifty photographs by Ansel Adams of the Japanese American relocation camp in Manzanar, California, during World War II. These photographs were the subject of his controversial book, Born Free and Equal, published in 1944 while the war was still on, protesting the treatment of these American citizens. Also included in the exhibition are more than twenty-five various photographs, documents, and works of art that further record this era.

The Fullerton Museum will be having live music, curator's talk and specialty drinks to mark the occasion.

Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams Opening Ceremony

Let's hear your voice on Friday, Febuary 3rd from 7pm-10pm for an amazing Light the Mic night! The open mic sign ups start at 7pm! Be there to get your spot. FREE gallery admission from 6-10pm.

We have an amazing feature-Andrew Zaragoza- to perform as our spoken word poet! @andrewascended

Andrew Joseph Zaragoza is a fellow Angeleno born in Lakewood, CA, raised in Southeast Los Angeles' Gateway Cities, and graduated from California State University, Dominguez Hills, BA in Psychology with Honors in the Major. Since entering the workforce, he has set out to cultivate spaces that aim to alleviate suffering and amplify unheard voices, founding OpenHeart Spoken Word as a result of his mission. Having a history of both personal and vocational experiences in mental health, education, and the arts, much of his work encapsulates the human spirit of resilience, wit, and transcendence.

Come along with us as we visit some fascinating sites with stories of ghostly hauntings around Fullerton Downtown. The tour includes visiting Villa de Sol, the Schumacher Building, Fox Theatre, Fullerton High School's

Auditorium, and more!



(1) Pre-paid drink coupon is included in your ticket price.

Tours meet inside the Fullerton Museum Center 5:30 PM.

Full Moon Haunted Walking Tour

Don't leave it up to Cupid to create and deliver your love notes and charms. Join us this Thursday for our new program, Arts & Craft. This week, it's all things Valentines to get ready for the big day.

Every Thursday night, we'll have drop-in FREE art activities as you sip the night away on delicious craft beer and drinks with new and old friends! The ART is on us the drinks are on you. 🍺❤️🎨🍺❤️🎨🍺❤️

Arts & Craft Beer Garden

Japanese Lanterns

$25 for members & $30 for non-members
1 drink coupon with purchase + all supplies included

Creative Co-Op: Wine & Create

Every Thursday night, we'll have drop-in FREE art activities as you sip the night away on delicious craft beer and drinks with new and old friends! The ART is on us the drinks are on you. 🍺❤️🎨🍺❤️🎨🍺❤️

Tours on the hour at 12 pm, 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm as well as family friendly art activities.
 
February 19th is a significant date for the Japanese American community. On this day in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. Army the authority to remove civilians from the military zones established in Washington, Oregon, and California during WWII. This led to the forced removal and incarceration of some 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, who had to abandon their jobs, their homes, and their lives to be sent to one of ten concentration camps scattered in desolate, remote regions of the country.

No Japanese Americans were ever charged, much less convicted, of espionage or sabotage against the United States. Yet they were targeted, rounded up, and imprisoned for years, simply for having the “face of the enemy.”

Day of Remembrance

For students grades 1st - 3rd, weekly art sessions from 2pm-4pm on Wednesdays in March. Kids will explore different art styles and techniques while learning about art movements throughout history!

March 1st: Clay Pots and Collages
March 8th: Printmaking and Landscapes
March 15th: Oil pastels and Acrylic paints
March 29th: Watercolor and Colored Pencils, Multimedia Challenge

This is a packaged class that builds off each lesson.

$40 for non-members and $35 for members for the whole month! Four classes!

An individual class option is available. Please contact us for more information.

Enrollment is limited, so sign up early!

Wednesday Studio

Calling all singers, songwriters and musicians. 30 minute - 1 hour sets available to perform.

Email info@fullertonmuseum.com to apply.

Unplug Thursdays

Let's hear your voice on Friday, March 3rd from 7pm-10pm for an amazing Light the Mic night! The open mic sign ups start at 7pm! Be there to get your spot. FREE gallery admission from 6-10pm.

Christina Brown is a poet and educator living in Long Beach, CA. She is the cohost of The Bi Pod: A Queer Podcast. In her free time, you’ll find her writing pop culture think pieces no one asked for, experiencing deep, short-lived obsessions, and trying not to kill her houseplants. Her first poetry collection, Girl Teeth, published by innateDIVINITYpress, is available now.

Instagram: @christina.leigh.brown

Sumi-E Japanese Ink Painting

$25 for members & $30 for non-members
1 drink coupon with purchase + all supplies included

Creative Co-Op: Wine & Paint

Join us for a FUN night as Life is a Parade and Fullerton Museum Center team up to raise money for our 2nd Annual Fullerton Pride Fest. Fierce and Fantastic Drag Entertainer KAY SEDIA will be leading us on a wild game night open to all ages!

Ticket Options:

$30 - Individual Ticket plus (1) Pre-paid drink coupon

$50 - (1) VIP Ticket plus (2) Pre-paid drink coupons and Priority Seating

$100 - Family / Friend (4) Group Ticket Pack (no drink tickets)

Kay's PRIDE BINGO

Save the Date!!! Our next Art Walk programming at FMC will be taken over by Fullerton Council PTA as we team up in bringing the winners and participants of REFLECTIONS Student Art Show to FMC to highlight all the wonderful art and artists. All are invited to participate and celebrate them. Special invitational Light the Mic performances in our outdoor stage in front of the museum, vendors, and beer garden will make April's Art Walk extra special.

FREE admission to galleries and event from 6:00 - 10:00pm.

Art Walk & Light The Mic

Ready for our next Creative Co-Op!? Join us on Friday, April 14th, from 6:30pm-9pm. We will be making a paper flower bouquet! Tickets include (1) pre-paid drink coupon and all supplies. $25 for members & $30 for non-members.

Limited spots are available! Sign up early!

FMC is spring cleaning! Stop by and support your local museum and vendors.

Fullerton Flea Rummage Sale And Beer Garden

Joyce Nakamura Okazaki is an American citizen of Japanese heritage who was forcibly removed with her family from their Los Angeles home and placed in the Manzanar War concentration camp in 1942. She was photographed by Ansel Adams in both 1943 and 1944 for his book, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans.

Manzanar-In-Focus: In Conversation with JOYCE OKAZAKI

Join us every Thursday for fun vibes and drinks at our Beer & Wine Garden. What's on Tap? Only the best! Beer, wine, and mixed drinks. All proceeds benefit the Fullerton Museum Center.


Opening Saturday, May 13th, from 6:00 - 9:00pm "Looking Back / Moving Forward: The Wisdom of Older Women" featuring the work of award winning photographer & author Donna Edman and over 70 artists. This multimedia exhibition will give you a peek into the lives and late in life journey of women.

The Fullerton Museum will be having live music, curator's talk and specialty drinks to mark the occasion. 

Looking Back / Moving Forward: The Wisdom of Older Women Opening Reception

Join us on Friday June 2, at 7pm for an amazing night of art and music! We will be having the lovely Emily Sophia featuring for her music and our new Foyer exhibit: The Visualization of Trauma Based Memory Loss. The creator, Logan Martinez will be giving discussing his work and process during the event. We hope to see you there!

Emily Sophia is a 23 year old singer songwriter from southern California. Ever since she could hold a pen, she liked to write stories, poems, and paint and she tries to incorporate these elements into her songwriting. Emily is a pop singer who is also influenced by folk and soft rock. Her favorite artists include Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Lorde, and Phoebe Bridgers. 

The Visualization of Trauma Based Memory Loss" It will be running June 2 - August 6. This exhibition is made by LGBTQIA+ artist and museum studies intern Logan Martinez.

The countdown begins!! PRIDE FEST FULLERTON: BE YOU will be held June 3rd, at the Downtown Fullerton Plaza.

Musical Feature: @jennifercorday
Pride Host: @kaysedia1
Bike Parade: @life_is_a_parade

Beer Garden, vendors, food trucks, photo booths, live art, and more!!! And it all starts with a bike parade!!

This is our 2nd Annual #PrideFestFullerton and we are going bigger and brighter! Do not miss out on the fun and community PRIDE!

Vendor applications available at info@fullertonmuseum.com and at our membership booth at the Garden.

BE YOU Pride Fest Fullerton

🎨 Join us for our exciting 3-month series of Creative Co-op Wine and Paint Nights at the Fullerton Museum! 🌟🍷 Unleash your inner artist while enjoying a glass of wine. 🖌 Plus for a limited time, purchase all 3 days and get a discount OR Purchase a ticket for you and a friend to get 10% off! Reserve your spots today and let your creativity flow!

Creative Co-Op

Beer Garden, Music Inside The Gallery & More

Day of Music at FMC

Join us at the poetry performance for our Light the Mic Night featuring spoken word poet and author Boogie as well as Wounded Animal, musician and violinist! Light the Mic is our open mic and gallery event with free entry.

Event doors open at 6:45, and the performance starts at 7:15 pm on July 7th. Access to the gallery will be available from 6pm-10pm.

Anthony 'da Boogie Man' Rucker is a critically-acclaimed poet and spoken word artist who gained fame as a multiple winner of the National Poetry Slam as well as through his work alongside cultural icons such as Erykah Badu, Common, and KRS One etc.

Boogie is a direct descendant of the rich literary and music heritage that flows through Ohio as a a mixture of the old, new, and future as evidenced by the diversity of his accomplishments.

His most recent release “Dear James” (2022) is a poetic ‘love letter’ to the late writer and activist James Baldwin.


Wounded Animal is a puzzling amalgam of borrowed folk music and absurdist storytelling.
Records indicate that he emerged from a Pennsylvania creekbed in the late 80s and has not stopped making noise since then.

He currently prowls Southern California in search of tall tales and creatures with scales. Evidence of his activities can be found on Instagram, Spotify, and Bandcamp.

Join us for our next installation of the Artist-in-Focus series in conversation with award winning photographer and author DONNA EDMAN. Featured artist of LOOKING BACK / MOVING FORWARD: THE WISDOM OF OLDER WOMEN.

We are proud to have Edman's powerful portraits of strong, amazing women whose raw stories have touched everyone who has come through our gallery doors. Their hopes, advice to their youngerselves and women, will inspire you too.

FREE for museum members or with museum admission. Enjoy light refreshments as you listen to her Wise Woman journey.

Artist-in-Focus

Beer garden, women owned vendors, food, live music & more.

Vendors and volunteers needed. Email info@fullertonmuseum.com to sign up.

Women's Festival

Rock Star Academy for students grades 3-6 will run Monday through Friday, from July 24-28th, students will learn basic guitar, drums, bass and production techniques from working professionals during this hands-on week of Rock 'n' Roll making.

The class runs from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, so kids will want to pack a lunch and drink for a supervised lunch break during this full day camp. No experience necessary. Instruments will be provided. Email info@fullertonmuseum.com for more details.

It will be here before you know it! Sign-up today. SPACE IS LIMITED.

Rock Star Academy

We have two poet features for Light the Mic! Come see Ceasar Avelar (@ceasarkavelar) & Donato Martinez (@donatomartinez1) perform for August's Downtown Fullerton Artwalk! We hope to see you Friday, August 4th, to see these two amazing poets and our musical feature, Greg Artavia (@gregartaviamusic)

Ceasar Avelar is a Blue-collar Central American Poet, who writes exclusively for the working class. He is this year’s Pomona poet laureate and Author of God of the Air Hose and other Blue Collar Poems published by El Martillo Press.

Donato Martinez was born in small pueblo, Garcia de la Cadena, Zacatecas, Mexico, and immigrated into the USA at six years old. He teaches English Composition, Literature, and Creative Writing, Chicano Studies at Santa Ana College and has been a co-coordinator of the Puente Program for 25 years, presenting workshop sessions at both the regional and state level. He hosts and curates many artistic events that feature poetry and music at his campus or in the community. He has a self-published collection with three other Inland Empire poets, Tacos de Lengua. He is a poet who writes about his barrio upbringing, his community, his culture, his bi-cultural and bilingual identities, and other complexities of life. His work is influenced by the sounds and pulse of the streets, people, music, and the magic of language.

Join us to celebrate legendary inventor LEO FENDER'S BIRTHDAY and our upcoming NEW Fender exhibits in our main gallery and the original Leo Fender Gallery, opening December 9th.

We have all the details and ways you can be involved! Special guests, live music by award winning guitarist Mike Hamilton, curated drinks, and more.

Leo Fender Day

🎨 🌟🍷 Unleash your inner artist while enjoying a glass of wine. 🖌 

Back by popular demand, our abstract portrait class! Sit down at an easel with us for our Creative Co-op! 🖌🎨🖼 