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See 150-year-old buildings in the Pioneer Village and explore the history of California oil in the Black Gold exhibit
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All reviews are from people who have redeemed deals with this merchant. Review requests are sent by email to customers who purchased the deal.Rudy
51 ratings45 reviews
Kern County Museum has a tremendous amount of history with numerous examples of early Bakersfield and Kern County architecture, merchants, banks, dental/ Dr offices, corner stone entrepreneurs to name a few.
The entire experience gave me a great look at personal, business and recreational life back when Kern County was slowly forging it's place in California.
Sheree
2 ratings2 reviews
Really cool and lots to see. I loved the car collection best and we almost missed it cause it's way in the back. "Indians" terminology needs to be updated to be politically correct in first exhibit. Other than that, all else was great.
Cristina
1 ratings1 reviews4 photos
Many interesting things to see. Great for the whole family.
DEAN
5 ratings2 reviews
Cool place to walk around and check out the old buildings. The building are from the late 1800's, early 1900's. It shows how life and business was in early Kern County, good way to spend a couple of hours educating my Nephew outside of school.
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- $23.75 for museum admission for five (up to $50 value)
- $8.99 for museum admission for two (up to $20 value)
Children under age 3 get in free.
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About Kern County Museum
In 1868, a massive flood rolled down the Sierra Nevada Mountains, carrying tree after uprooted tree in its wake. Once the waters receded, those trees and the very confused squirrels hiding in them covered the Kern River valley. That's right where Thomas Barnes found them. So he cut them into logs and built a cabin from the ground up, then moved in with his wife and seven children. Today, that same cabin stands as one of the buildings within Kern County Museum's Pioneer Village.
The structures here are relics of several different times and places. Some came from old farms in the area, while others once stood on the main streets of towns—such as the Beale Memorial Clock Tower from old Bakersfield. While their original purposes have long since passed, the buildings still spring to life each time a visitor passes through. It's easy to imagine a blacksmith at work at the Calloway Ranch in the late 1800s, or the faithful tellers who saw The Kern Valley Bank through the Great Depression.
A different view of Kern County's history takes center stage inside the museum's other permanent attraction, Black Gold: The Oil Experience. Here, 9,640 square feet of exhibit space reveal how oil forms deep within the earth, as well as methods for its discovery and production. Other displays profile the workers and historical events that ultimately led to Kern County claiming 64% of California’s oil production.