Eastern California Museum Launches New Virtual Guide

Immerse yourself in highlighted pieces of local history with the Eastern California Museum’s brand-new online guide! Featuring over 200 historic photos, oral history excerpts, videos, and a guided tour of the most popular artifacts, this guide is your key to the museum any time, any place. Built by Museum Curator, Heather Todd, with the Bloomberg Connects app, the guide can be used to plan a trip to the Eastern California Museum, or as a virtual tour of the museum’s collection.

Launching the virtual guide this summer was an added visitor benefit during the partial closure of the historic west wing of the museum, which is currently under construction.  This major museum renovation project, titled “Re-Imagine Eastern California Museum,” is funded by the Special General Fund for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural & Historical Endowment, under the auspices of Gavin Newsom, Governor, and Wade Crowfoot, Secretary for Natural Resources. The grant-funded museum refresh is anticipated for completion in 2027.

Users of the Bloomberg virtual guide will be able to view many artifacts and photos not accessible at this time, and it provides additional context for some of our most iconic pieces of the past. Long-time Inyo County resident and former educator Linda Hubbs, who was an early user of the guide, raved: “I am so impressed by the choices of artifacts and the oral histories that accompany them. It will serve to illuminate the rich heritage in our small corner of the world to people worldwide. What a wonderful asset to Inyo County.”