Carnegie Art Museum

sharing the SoCal art experience

Although Oxnard is an hour's drive north from Los Angeles, this art gallery merits the trip. Constructed with funds donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1906, the building itself is the really the main attraction. The elegant Neo-Classical structure was originally used as a library, but was transformed into a cultural center in 1963. The collection consists primarily of 20th century works, including...

The Carnegie Building, and the Art Museum it houses, are vital to the visual arts and education and its Oxnard population ...of over 190,000 and to the general County population The Museum annually offers changing exhibits intended to give the public access to a broad diversity of California Art, or art influential to the California art scene. The majority of exhibits feature contemporary...