Welcome to the Barona Cultural Center & Museum Website.
As San Diego County’s only museum on an Indian reservation dedicated to the perpetuation and presentation of the local Native culture, the Barona Museum offers a unique educational journey for visitors of all ages. The museum’s collection represents thousands of years of history—some objects dating as far back as 10,000 years—and it demonstrates the artistry and skill of the hemisphere’s first inhabitants.
Announcements
Cosmic Serpent Comes to Barona Museum, February 8-12, 2010
Barona Museum is proud to be selected to host the Southern California regional meeting in February. The Cosmic Serpent Informal Science Education Project is in its third year and includes representatives from the National Museum of the American Indian, the Institute for Indigenous Education, National Science Foundation, Berkeley Space Sciences Lab, many Tribes and Tribal Museum representatives, as well as Science Museum participants. For more information about Cosmic Serpent, please visit the Website, www.cosmicserpent.org or click on the banner below.
Center for the Future of Museums
The American Association of Museums (AAM) new Center for the Future of Museums kickoff included several new Museum Futurists. You can view the ideas of our Director Cheryl Hinton, was well as our colleagues, in the Voices of the Future interviews at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMtX63BVAYw
"We Shall Remain"
In the new series on KPBS, “We Shall Remain” Museum Director Cheryl Hinton appears in two mini-documentaries on Barona history and the new Dictionary, “The Rebellion at San Diego Mission” and “The Barona Inter-Tribal Dictionary and Cultural Revitalization”, as shown in the video below.
Mailing List
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As San Diego County’s only museum on an Indian reservation dedicated to the perpetuation and presentation of the local Native culture, the Barona Museum offers a unique educational journey for visitors of all ages. The museum’s collection represents thousands of years of history—some objects dating as far back as 10,000 years—and it demonstrates the artistry and skill of the hemisphere’s first inhabitants.
