Art Museum
Carnegie Art Museum
424 South C Street
Oxnard, CA 93030
Email: Email venue
Phone: (805) 385-8157
Fax: (805) 483-3654
Website: www.carnegieam.org
Contact:
Suzanne Bellah Director
Hours:
Thursday - Saturday, 10am-5pm; Sunday, 1-5pm.
Admission Price:
Admission $3/$2 seniors/$1 children/members free.
Exhibitions
Gary Lang
Edging Reason--Words
An investigation of hand-painted words and phrases.
Description:
The Carnegie Art Museum, owned and operated as a non-profit museum by the City of Oxnard since 1985, traces its beginnings back to the best spirit of American business philanthropy. Originally, the City of Oxnard’s first Public Library site, it was built in 1906 as one of the free public libraries funded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. After the Library outgrew the building’s size in the 1960’s, and moved several blocks to a new facility, this gracious building was used for a variety of purposes including a Chamber of Commerce. In the early 1980s, after extensive earthquake retrofitting, the Carnegie Building reopened as a Cultural Arts Center. Due to the growing importance of its permanent art collection, the Carnegie was designated by the City as an Art Museum in 1985.
