753 South Main St.
Angels Camp, CA 95222
209-736-2963
Museums
Angels Camp Museum
Home to one of the largest collections of carriages and wagons in the nation, Angels Camp Museum is an international destination with more than 30,000 square feet of exhibits on Gold Rush history. Visitors can stroll through the beautifully landscaped historical park to explore extensive indoor and outdoor exhibits that include Mark Twain, ranching, mining, and minerals, and interactive exhibits that include a human frog jump where you can try to out-jump Rosie the Ribiter and gold panning just like the miners of 1849.
The Angels Camp Museum, gift shop, and Calaveras Visitors Bureau are all three located right inside the entrance to the museum. Here you’ll find Calaveras-made honey, olive oil, coffee, ceramics, snacks, Gold Rush era souvenirs, one-of-a-kind hats and shirts, books on local history, and much more. Visit us to purchase great mementos of your visit to Angels Camp and Calaveras County!
Admission:
$15 per adult
$10 per child
$10 for Calaveras County Residents – Adults
$5 for Calaveras County Residents – Child
$12 for seniors 65+ and vets
Active duty military are free with a 20% discount on admission for anyone in their group
We also offer family, group, non-profit, and school group discounts. Please call ahead for pricing.
The Angels Camp Museum Foundation is also a supporter of the Museum through donations. Many of the exhibits you see were made possible with their help. If you would like to contribute or find out more about the foundation please visit them here.
Altaville Schoolhouse
125 N. Main Street
The Altaville Schoolhouse; Community and State Cooperation in Local Historical Preservation
They came in their usual desultory fashion — the fashion of country school children the world over — irregular, spasmodically, and always as if accidentally — appearing from ditches, behind trunks, and between fence rails; cropping up in unexpected places along the road after vague and purposeless detours — seemingly going anywhere and everywhere but to school!
–Bret Harte
The Altaville Schoolhouse, located in the settlement of that name in Calaveras County, California, is one of the best preserved of the proverbial one-room little red schoolhouses in California. Built of brick in 1858 and actively used until 1950, the little school witnessed the instruction of hundreds of children from the Mother Lode region. When it was closed the building began to deteriorate, but by good fortune it was located on property which became the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Altaville Fire Station. Through the efforts of CAL FIRE the building was identified as an important historical structure worthy of preservation. In 1981 CAL FIRE Battalion Captain James McGee prepared a Historic Resources Inventory form for the building, and CAL FIRE personnel developed a restoration plan, which included moving the building a short distance to an accessible location facing Highway 49. Today, the little schoolhouse, authentically and carefully restored to its former state, is one of the principal attractions for visitors touring the Mother Lode mining region. When the building was moved, CAL FIRE Archaeologist Dan Foster conducted excavations in and around the foundation of the schoolhouse, and collected numerous artifacts covering a period of one hundred years. These were analyzed in 1998 by the Institute for Archaeological Research, California State University, Stanislaus, and are now part of the collections of the Calaveras County Historical Society. The Altaville Schoolhouse stands today as a monument to early-day education and to the interest of Altaville and its citizens in preserving their historic past.