Barona Cultural Center & Museum

California—A Murder State Lemkin defined genocide as the mass murder of ethnic or national groups, past or present but with the aftermath...

Genocide Defined Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish legal scholar coined the term “genocide” by combining the ancient Greek word genos...

It’s called genocide. That’s what it was, a genocide. No other way to describe it. And that’s the way it needs to be described in the...

By: Jenifer Stone, Assistant Curator This March the annual Congress of History Conference was cancelled due to the ongoing corona virus...

By: Allison Blakeslee, Archivist Because Barona Cultural Center & Museum was awarded the Institute of Museum and Library Service National...

By: Rich Rodriguez, Museum Educator Returning to work at a Native Museum – things have changed just as much as they have stayed the same...

Best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year! 2020 is notable for Barona Cultural Center & Museum—it was 20 years ago that we first...

The summer is always a busy time here at the Museum! In just two short summer months we’ve held our 10th Annual Culture Camp for Barona...

This month we’ve decided to compile a summer reading list focusing on Native American history, culture, and language. More specifically,...

April: National Native Plants Garden Month Since 2015 the month of April has been known as National Garden Month, and here at Barona...

By definition, a museum is an institution for the safekeeping of objects and for the interpretation of these objects through research and...

An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley —a must read! By Charla Wilson, Librarian/Archivist, Barona Cultural Center & Museum The state of...

I am an architect’s daughter. When I was growing up I thought it was normal to visit historic buildings and cathedrals. Most of our...

Our newest exhibition, Stones In the Meadow: Irving Gill’s Church and Cottages on the Barona Indian Reservation is now open. ...

I have come to learn that the government appointee that helped our People build our church and houses when we moved to Barona in 1932 is...

As we embark upon this collaborative exhibition with the Irving J. Gill Foundation (IrvingJGill.org) I am struck by how far-reaching one...