Your Museum's Purpose

The Museum of the San Fernando Valley is an educational and cultural institution. Our purpose is to acquire, display, and preserve artifacts, documents and records related to the history of the San Fernando Valley and its residents. We strive to accomplish this through interactive exhibits, our web site, tours for schools and organizations, performancces, lectures and an artifact loan program for San Fernando Valley schools.

The Museum's collections of art and historical items exist for scholarly research and for public employment. Your Museum collects, presents and shares with the entire San Fernando Valley important works of art as well as folk art and crafts.

The past is a source of knowledge, and
the future is a source of hope. Love of the
past implies faith in the future.

—Stephen Ambrose