You are bidding on a One Year Active Level Membership at the Pasadena Museum of History. 

Active Level Membership provides

• Unlimited free admission for two


• Subscription to the PMH Calendar of Events


• Invitations to Members Only exhibition receptions and events (including our popular At Home Series)


• 10% Museum Store discount & invitations to Members Appreciation Day sales
  Discounts on ticketed events
  10% discount on photograph reproduction orders from the Museum Archives


• Reciprocal benefits at over 200 participating museums and historical societies

PMH was founded as Pasadena Historical Society in 1924, just 50 years after the first members of the Indiana Colony settled along the banks of the Arroyo Seco. The original mission, which remains essentially unchanged today, was to collect, preserve, and exhibit materials that documented the founding and early history of the city. This was an ambitious, forward-looking mission statement in 1924, when the collections filled just one filing cabinet!

The museum's collection got its first real home in 1932 in a room specifically designed for it as part of the new Civic Auditorium. By 1958, it had outgrown that space, so it was moved to the Pasadena Public Library, where it was staffed by its own volunteers.

Since 1970, thanks to a generous gift from the Paloheimo family, the Museum has been headquartered on the two-acre grounds of the Fenyes Estate, a Pasadena Cultural Landmark that is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Museum's historic structures also include the Curtin House, a gracious French-style residence designed in 1915 by Sylvanus Marston, and the Finnish Folk Art Museum, a building designed by Frederick Roehrig and adapted by Consul Paloheimo for use as a sauna/guest house.