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Fullerton Museum Center
301 N Pomona Ave
Fullerton, CA 92832
(714) 738-6545
Fullerton, CA 92832
(714) 738-6545
4 reviews for Fullerton Museum Center
I know a cultural faux pas when I step in one...
Knowing most Yelpers as a frugal bunch, allow me to save you some time and money so you can spend it getting wasted versus wasting it at this museum. I understand culturalists will say "How can you be so cold and callous? Our children simply love this place!" And all I have to say is life is tough, I'm not a child and it is what it is...not worth $4. But I'll help pay the light bill today (actually, my friend did, hehe)
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After my friend bought an early birthday AYCE Italian buffet lunch, we felt the need to walk some of it off. There was a lot to walk off. "Hey, there's a museum, let's get some kultcha!" We enter the Fullerton Museum Center (I haven't a clue what makes it a "center") and find:
A bunch of photographs you'll find in any California history book.
1 (one) tiny gold ingot as the headliner item of "Gold Fever!", the core exhibit.
1 (one) rusted iron Spanish helmet with rusted sword, bfd.
1 (one) metal panning pan, again bfd.
1 (one) mini-scale, do I need say bfd again?
Got Gold Fever yet? I felt fine with no hint of a high temperature.
Now, the special exhibit: Fender guitars. I'm not a guitar purist and admittedly don't know a fret from a chord. But they had several guitars hanging on the walls and described the story of Leo Fender and his contribution to modern music. Al got a picture of me strumming a six-string and somewhere I swear I smelled shrimp beginning to boil. But I broke a nail and maybe that's why I'm so callous and cold, culturally lacking. At least I didn't have to fly home. But I'd had a manicure just the day before, was stuffed blind, had my glasses on with no make-up, it was a rainy, cold, bad-hair day, and whatever...this place was as dead as the Conquistador that once wore that iron rust bucket.
That's it! Think of all that time and money I just saved you...
Of course, you can spend $4 and see if I'm wrong... OR you can mail me the $4 because you've saved all that gas money
P.S., my friend thought the gold was fake but I thought it was real. He tried shoving the plexiglass case aside a few times but it wouldn't budge.
(just kidding).
P.P.S., the museum store had a bunch of trash kitschy stuff in it but that's not why we came in. A hunk of iron pyrite for the kid perhaps?
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So one Saturday afternoon my buddie Cha Cha and I were having lunch in lovely downtown Fullerton. After lunch we went for a stroll and we happened to pass this museum with a sign advertising the Leo Fender exhibit. Well being a guitar buff and owner of several of Leo's six string creations I had to check it out.
I don't remember what the "donation" was for entry but I gladly paid it. We browsed the limited and kind of boring exhibits they had there. They had a dinosaur egg (zzzz) and a couple of other artifacts that were less than impressive.
Finally we get to the Fender exhibit. Wow there was a total of less than 6 guitars. I could have stayed home and looked at more interesting Fender products. There was a family visiting form out of town, and you could tell the father had the same disappointment on his face that I did, so I gave him directions to the Guitar Center in Hollywood which has a mind-blowing collection. I know I know this place is a museum not just a guitar collection. Well all of the info on the wall about Leo Fender looks like it was pulled right out of one of those Fender coffee table books. There were no personal belongings of Leo Fenders. I'm such a dork I would have loved to have seen his tool bench or oscilloscope, anything!
I am a big fan of museums and always try to visit one when I'm in new place, but wow what a let down this one was.
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The hun surprised me with an excursion to the Fullerton Museum. Why, you ask would he want to take me there on a date? Well, he knows me well enough that I'm a purse junky and the museum had a purse exhibit. It was a little more than just a collection of purses, they also discussed the social impact that purses made. I thought that it was a decent exhibit that was worth $4 for an hour of walking around.
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The exhibits are really well organized and interesting...the permanent Fender Guitar exhibit is worth seeing. A great place to take kids on a field trip. The creative staff here is really, really skilled. A fun way to spend a couple hours.
