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This weekend: First Friday Pop-Up. Vendors, music, and a free guided tour at 7pm. Bring the family. Bring a friend who's never been.
Quiet morning at the museum. The doors open at 11 — coffee from the cafe, no admission required to walk through the lobby exhibits.
From the workshop: restoring a 1958 Compton Comets letterman jacket donated by the family of a former player. Going on display next month.
School groups visiting this week from Centennial High, Roosevelt Middle, and Bunche Elementary. If you're a CUSD teacher, our spring slots are still open — DM to book.
Volunteer Tuesdays are back. Help us re-catalog the Cesar Chavez collection — coffee, lunch, and a deeper relationship with this city's history on the house.
Now showing: A People's Compton — fifty years of neighborhood organizing in flyers, photographs, and field recordings. Open through July.
Featured artist drop. New mixed-media work from a Compton High senior just went up in the East Wing. Artist talk this Saturday at 2pm.
Late-afternoon light on the rotunda. Curators are quiet because they know the building is the loudest exhibit.
Photo of the day. The kids on this field trip asked the right question: "who decides what makes it into a museum?" We told them: you do, eventually.
Pulled from the archives this week: a 1972 city council program. Six pages, three districts represented, one quote pinned at the top — "the work begins after the meeting."
The Music & Movement gallery is back. From Eazy and Dre to Kendrick — the sound of this city, told through artifacts you can stand next to.
Inside the Founders Room. Every name on this wall is a door we opened together. Free admission Sundays for Compton residents.
Open today, 11–5. New Black Compton wall just installed on the second floor — a living timeline of the families that built this city.