The public is invited to experience life in 1800s Mexican California. Experience the sights and sounds through music, crafts, and food. Visitors can participate in hands-on activities; such as, corn husk doll making, adobe brick making, butter making and gold panning. Exhibitors will demonstrate historic skills including blacksmithing and cattle roping. Children are encouraged to...Read More

Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum Friends & Visitors – Following the recent public health concerns regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the museum will be closed, and onsite events will be postponed. There will be online events however. Thank you for your understanding – Museum Administration October 2020: October 3-4, 2020:  The Battle of Dominguez Rancho Reenactment from...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)—The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will present a reading of the Constitutional Convention Debates and the Constitution of California. In the fall of 1849, forty-eight delegates from California gathered at Colton Hall in Monterey, California for its Constitutional State Convention, a key event in moving California towards statehood. The Dominguez Adobe is connected...Read More

10:00AM-10:15AM: Opening Remarks, Location: Carriage House Patio Area 10:15AM-10:45AM: Semillitas Preschool and Kalpulli Tlaltekuhtli, Location: Carriage House Patio Area 10:45AM- 11:15AM: Blessing of Altares & group pictures Location: Around The Adobe Area 10:45AM- 11:30AM: Dia de Muertos Music Location: Carriage House Patio Area 10:30AM- 4:00PM: Face Painting, Crafts, Food and Craft Vendors, Location:  Side/Back of...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)—The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will present a reading of the Constitutional Convention Debates and the Constitution of California. In the fall of 1849, forty-eight delegates from California gathered at Colton Hall in Monterey, California for its Constitutional State Convention, a key event in moving California towards statehood. The Dominguez Adobe is connected...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)—The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will present a reading of the Constitutional Convention Debates and the Constitution of California. In the fall of 1849, forty-eight delegates from California gathered at Colton Hall in Monterey, California for its Constitutional State Convention, a key event in moving California towards statehood. The Dominguez Adobe is connected...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)—The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will open its gardens to visitors for docent guided garden tours beginning this spring. Housed upon its seventeenth acre grounds, visitors are invited to tour the beautiful gardens with our career nurseryman, arborist and current Rose Garden Curator, Michael Horibe. Explore hidden grottos, orchards, take a peaceful stroll...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)— The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will host a UC California Naturalist Certification Course this fall. Participants complete a 40 plus hour hands-on course with expert instructors and fellow learners- studying natural history, environmental interpretation and conservation stewardship. The course covers the natural and cultural history of California with an in-depth look at...Read More

(Rancho Dominguez, CA)—The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will present a reading of the Constitutional Convention Debates and the Constitution of California. In the fall of 1849, forty-eight delegates from California gathered at Colton Hall in Monterey, California for its Constitutional State Convention, a key event in moving California towards statehood. The Dominguez Adobe is connected...Read More

The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum will host a presentation by the Honorable Frederick P. Aguirre, Ret. titled, Law in Frontier California: An examination of changes from customary law to common law that affected owners of Spanish and Mexican Ranchos. During Spanish and Mexican California, the government rewarded individuals with land for their military service or...Read More