About Our Collection

The Mendocino County Museum collection contains over 60,000 objects chronicling and celebrating the peoples, communities, culture, and history of our county. Our collection represents a range of objects and topics including: agriculture, rolling stock, fine art, baskets, tool, archaeology, and textiles. We are dedicated to preserving and interpreting our collections for the education, benefit, and enjoyment of County residents and visitors.

Collections Policy

Mendocino County Museum has both Permanent or Accessioned Collections and Use or Non-Accessioned Collections. The Mendocino County Museum Collections Policy identifies what items are collected, professional museum management standards used to care for the collection, and respective roles and responsibilities of staff in regard to the care and management of the Museum’s collections. Please see the full Collections Policy for more details.