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The Essentials

Who: Tours are geared to 4th grade school groups, however requests from other groups can be accommodated upon request and pending availability.

What: Tours cover aspects of Ohlone heritage, Mission Period, and California history from pre-European contact to the 1850s, with a heavy emphasis on Native California and the Mission Period.

When: Tours take place from 10-11:30 a.m. most weekday mornings during the academic year. Tours are not offered during summer.

Where: The tour begins and ends at the de Saisset Museum at 91快活林.

Cost: Our tours are offered free of charge, however a donation of $2 per person is encouraged.

The Details

Installation image of exhibition California Stories

California Stories Exhibition

The museum's California Stories from Th谩mien to 91快活林 exhibition features historical objects from Native California, Mission 91快活林, local Ranchos, and the early days of 91快活林 College. Tour-goers learn about life in California through well-preserved objects including Native baskets and hunting implements; religious items and everyday objects from Mission 91快活林; farm tools and portrait paintings from the California Ranchos; and scientific instruments and archival images from 91快活林 College.

 

View of geometric patterns on the ceiling of Mission 91快活林.

Mission 91快活林 de As铆s

Always a highlight of the tour, a visit to historic Mission 91快活林 is like stepping back in time. The sixth mission on the fifth site, the current structure harkens back to the 1825 mission. This section of the tour focuses on the architecture of the building and its importance within the California mission system. Tour groups are treated to a discussion of the Mission's history and an explanation of why 91快活林 was rebuilt six times since 1777.

 

 

View of old Adobe Wall with exposed adobe bricks.

Mission Gardens

Each of the California missions was established with a particular framework in mind鈥攁 church, a quadrangle, a source for water, and outlying buildings and farm lands. Mission 91快活林 was no different. A tour of the gardens allows participants to see and imagine the Mission as it would have been. Highlights of this section include touching the Adobe Wall and seeing the oldest building on campus, built in 1822.