Education
Resources for Teachers
Visit the For Teachers page for additional school tour information, lesson plans and other resources.
Public Tours
The museum offers tours of the Adobe to the public every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday of the month and the first Thursday and Friday of the month. All tours are led by volunteer docents and are at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm. We also offer tours of the museum grounds by request. We have the Del Amo living catalog, which is a tour of the cactus garden, rose garden and other outside areas on the Rancho San Pedro.
School Tours
Our school tours are fun, engaging, one-of-a-kind experiences for schoolchildren of all ages. Our unique environment invites students to fully experience the history of early California. Museum tours are designed to meet the needs of classroom teachers by addressing local, state, and national history and social studies standards and frameworks. Each tour is age-appropriate and relevant to classroom curriculum.
Teachers prepare their students for a visit to the Museum with classroom lessons and background information provided in our “Rancho San Pedro Teacher Manual.” When students arrive at the Rancho, they are asked to step back in time, to the year 1784, when Juan Jose Dominguez was given the first land grant in California.
Our volunteer docents conduct tours on Tuesday through Friday mornings all year round. All school tours start at 9:30am. We also offer a covered picnic area where students can enjoy their lunches after the tour.
To book a tour, please contact the office at (310) 603-0088 extension 1.
After-School Tours
The museum also offers tours for after-school programs. The tours follow the same format as the school tours, however they are given at 3pm Tuesday through Friday during September through June and are offered all day during the summer months.
To book a tour, please contact the office at (310) 603-0088 extension 1.
Weekend Programming
The museum offers a variety of weekend programming for children, families and adults. We offer children’s activities of all kinds.
Annual programs include:
- Watercolor Day with a class
- Mother’s Day Tea
- Stained Glass activity
- Adobe Brick Making Activity
Living history programs:
- Tours, upon request, that are given by early California figures such as Father Serra and Manual Dominguez who talk about their experiences throughout the year.
- Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun reenactment
- Living History night
- Meet Father Serra
Speaker Series
The museum offers a monthly speaker series at the museum throughout the year. We offer the public speakers on different topics such as history of the Native American Indians that lived in the local area and worked on the Rancho, history of the Asian American population in the South Bay area, the history of the cities of Compton and Carson, early California history, transportation history etc.
