Ontario Museum of History and Art


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The Ontario Museum of History and Art is housed in the old City Hall building which has been restored for the museum. The building was built in 1937 in a Spanish-Mediterranean style. The grounds are really very nice. Admission to the museum is free.

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They have changing exhibits in one wing of the building. We have been there to see local crate art, Ansel Adams display and just recently quilt art.

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This is a view from the front looking north up Euclid Ave. We have discovered that Euclid Ave has been compared to Euclid Ave in Cleveland, Ohio, which was named after the famous mathematician of the same name.

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In the traveling exhibit wing, they had a display of crate art. Crate art is the labels that were once put on citrus crates. At one time this area was full of citrus groves and packinghouses. There are still a number of packinghouses left, but very few citrus groves. The indoor pictures are not very good because I could not use a flash. But, the label artwork the growers put on their crates to identify their oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, etc. is pretty spectacular.  For a history and to view some of  labels the growers put on their crates labels click this link. They will scroll in the upper left of the new window.

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This is obviously is a hallway, but it gives you a flavor of the other architecture inside the building. It leads to a display on the history of the area and its roads, and of course Route 66, which was an important highway in the growth of California.