The Winters Museum
The Winters Museum is OPEN
Thursday through Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 PM.
Or contact the Museum for an appointment.
Admission is free.
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Our exhibit--
Take a Look Back at
Winters History
--is open now.
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Open Now: Take a Look Back at Winters History
Take a Look Back at Winters History
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A NEW EXHIBIT IS OPEN NOW!
The Winters Museum is open
Thursday through Sunday
from 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM.
Admission is free.
Museum Hours
Winters Museum Schedule
Open Thursday - Sunday: 1:00 - 5:00 PM.
Or contact the Museum for an appointment.
Please be safe and stay healthy.
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Museum Location
The Winters History Museum is centrally located in downtown Winters at 13 Russell Street, on the corner of Russell and First Streets, a short walk from Buckhorn Steakhouse, Putah Creek Cafe, Preserve, Steady Eddy's, Ficelle, Hooby's, Chuy's, Pizza Factory, Ocean Restaurant, El Pueblo, Carboni's, Winters Hotel, Turkovich Family Wines, Berryessa Gap Tasting Room, L'Apéro les Trois, Winters City Hall, Winters Community Center, and Sam Spade's Office.
Thank You!
Thank You!
We want to thank everyone for supporting the Historical Society of Winters and the Winters Museum during our recent See's Candy fundraiser!
Looking Back 5 Years
Building the Winters Museum
This video slideshow follows the transformation of the Winters Express office space into the Winters Museum by the Historical Society of Winters during October and November 2018.
Our First Newsletter
New Historical Panel
New Historical Panel
Celestino Galabasa, Jr. created this historical panel for the front of the Winters Museum from the 1879 lithograph of Winters drawn by W.T. Galloway and published in Frank T. Gilbert's The Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, California (DePue & Company, San Francisco, CA 1879). [Photo by Joe Bristow]
Winters Museum Projects
Projects and Volunteers
Check out some of the projects underway at the Winters Museum. Where did Charley find that blinking red light? Where will he put it?
Open Now: Take a Look Back at Winters History
Take a Look Back at Winters History
The Winters Museum is featuring a new, eclectic exhibition titled “Take a Look Back at Winters History.” The exhibit brings back some of the photos that were on display previously and has added some new ones as well.
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The museum has a new collection of photos that is titled the Ackley Collection. In 2019, Brenda Nickerson Ackley brought in many photos that had been taken by her grandfather, Edward James Gannon. Brenda’s grandmother was Hazel Griffin who was the daughter of Alexander Rice Griffin who followed his brother, Joseph Griffin, from Missouri to California.
Tom Crisp was able to scan several of the photos and copies are now hanging in the museum. These are never-before-seen pictures of Winters, especially those that were taken on Main Street. This is definitely a highlight of the exhibit.
In addition, the exhibit has included a few pictures from the previous “Wide World of Winters’ Sports” exhibit, including those of an Olympic athlete, Jack Brinck, and Theodore Winters’ prized racehorse, Norfolk.
An emphasis on the importance of agriculture in the history of Winters is included with previously exhibited pictures and artifacts. Winters was known for its production, processing, and marketing of apricots, peaches, prunes, almonds, and walnuts. Stories and artifacts, as well as pictures, tell this story at the exhibit.
Many local history books by local authors are prominently displayed. Included are books by Tom Crisp, Gloria Lopez, Dorothy O’Neill, Lorraine Rominger, and others. There are also photos of Winters taken by the famed Dorothea Lange that were taken in the 1930s and 40s.
Finally, several of the photos from the “Lost Japanese Community of Winters” are displayed. The next exhibit, planned for the spring of 2024, will bring back this popular exhibit which will coincide with the unveiling of a monument honoring the Japanese community.
Recently Closed: Wide World of Winters' Sport
Wide World of Winters' Sports
Tom Crisp, the exhibit's co-curator and primary collector, reports that the Winters Museum's Wide World of Winters Sports exhibit closed on Sunday, July 30.
A Special Closing Event
Exhibit Closes with Special Event
The Wednesday Ramblers wowed the crowd with a performance of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at the closing of the Wide World of Winters' Sports Exhibit.
Monument News
City Council Approves Monument Plan
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The Winters City Council unanimously approved the placement of the monument commemorating the Lost Japanese Community of Winters in Rotary Park following a presentation by the Historical Society of Winters.
New Monticello Exhibition Video
Remembering Monticello--A Final Look
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Take a guided tour of the recent Remembering Monticello exhibit at the Winters Museum with narration by Carol McGinnis Fitzpatrick and Woody Fridae.
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Thank You!
Thank You!
We want to thank everyone for supporting the Historical Society of Winters and the Winters Museum during this year's Big Day of Giving!
Support the Winters Museum!
Support the Winters Museum with a donation to Historical Society of Winters.
A Brief History of Winters
Newt Wallace writes his Express column
Thanks to the Winters Express for including an article which details the early history of our town in the Welcome to Winters 2020 publication. Please pick up a copy while they are available, or . . .
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More Winters History
The Saloons Have Moved!
A 1875 Los Angeles Herald news item mentions Buckeye and Winters. Learn how a decision regarding the routing of an extension of the Vaca Valley Railroad led to the demise of Buckeye and the rise of Winters.
(Source: Tom Crisp's The People of Buckeye and Early Winters)
Buckeye and Early Winters. . .
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John Reid Wolfskill
Theodore Winters
The Winters Express
1975 Centennial
In 1975, The Winters Express printed a special supplement commemorating the Winters Centennial.
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