• The Yosemite Museum has displays that interpret the cultural history of Yosemite’s native Miwok and Paiute people from 1850 to the present, demonstrations...
  • Exterior of the Yosemite Museum in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park. Yosemite Museum display of clothing, baskets, cradle boards...
  • The Yosemite Museum was designed by architect Herbert Maier in the newly emerging National Park Service Rustic Style.
  • Since the museum is located in Yosemite Village, it can be conveniently combined with other nearby attractions such as the Yosemite Visitor Center...
  • It's a museum, a Native American culture exhibit and a changing art gallery in the room next door as well as a Yosemite area Native American village behind the...
  • Built in 1925, the Yosemite Museum was the first museum constructed in any U.S. national park and acted as a foundation for all other park museums.
  • How your support helps: When the Yosemite Museum opened to the public in 1926, it became the first structure in the National Park System built specifically to...
  • For conservationist John Muir, the Yosemite Valley itself was an outdoor museum of natural history...
  • Completed in 1925, the Yosemite Museum was built to provide Yosemite visitors with an in-depth education on Yosemite's rich and historic past.
  • Serving as an invaluable asset to the global climbing community, the Yosemite Climbing Museum chronicles the evolution of modern day rock climbing from 1869...