Leonis Adobe Museum to celebrate milestone




DINNER TIME—A boy feeds the farm animals at the Leonis Adobe Museum.

DINNER TIME—A boy feeds the farm animals at the Leonis Adobe Museum.

The Leonis Adobe had the honor of being designated as historic cultural monument No. 1 by the Cultural Heritage Board of Los Angeles on Aug. 6, 1962.

The formal opening of the Leonis Adobe Museum took place May 21,1966, when Mayor Sam Yorty unveiled the new monument plaque.

To commemorate the 50-year anniversary, the Leonis Adobe Museum will celebrate with a Hands on History Day from 1 to 4 p. m. Sat., May 21 at 23537 Calabasas Road, Calabasas.

Attendees can take part in activities like making tortillas, grinding corn, churning butter, making adobe bricks and corn husk dolls.

There will be an authentic blacksmith as well as demonstrations of wool spinning, loom weaving, historic clothing, fabric dyes and a horno clay oven.

An authentic Wells Fargo stagecoach will also be on site for guests to explore and photograph.

The Leonis Adobe is a historical monument and living history museum that restores, preserves and shares California ranch life in the late 1880s. Each year over 20,000 visitors come to the adobe to learn about life on an isolated ranch during that time period.

Guests can learn about longhorn cattle, Percheron horses, goats, sheep and poultry. They can see the restored and furnished adobe house, the barn and blacksmith shop as well as an assortment of farm machinery and wagons. The property also has herbs and vegetables like pumpkins and corn as well as grapes and fruit trees.

Throughout the year teachers bring elementary school students to tour the museum and ranch. The Leonis Adobe school tour was the recipient of the 2014 California Association of Museums Superintendent’s Award for Excellence in museum education.

A Chumash school tour for third-graders has recently been added as well as a Passport 2 History program in which participants visit over 85 historical sites in six counties.

The Passport program is the recipient of the 2015 Native Daughters of the Golden West Image Award for promoting California history.

In 1975 the Leonis Adobe was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Throughout the year, the Leonis Adobe hosts a variety of events for families and children.

For more information, call

818) 222-6511 or go to www.leonisadobemuseum.org.


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