Museums and Historical Sites

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (0.2 mi)
451 S First Street
San Jose, CA
408.283.8155
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) seeks to engage Bay Area audiences through innovative visual art exhibitions and educational programs.

The Tech Museum of Innovation (0.3 mi)
201 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408.294.TECH
The Tech Museum of Innovation is a hands-on technology and science museum for people of all ages and backgrounds. Full of unique experiential exhibits, this cosmopolitan museum in the heart of downtown San Jose shows its visitors how technology functions and is changing every aspect of the way we work, live, play and learn.

San Jose Museum of Art (0.3 mi)
110 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408.271-6840
SJMA is a contemporary art center whose acclaimed exhibitions have ranged across modern masterworks to the newest frontiers of art. It is a cultural crossroads, more than doubling its attendance since instituting a free admission policy.
Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Children's Discovery Museum (0.5 mi)
180 Woz Way
San Jose, CA 95110
408.298.5437
Visit Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose where you can expect to test, crank, listen, prod and tinker. One of the largest museums of its kind in the nation, CDM's 150 interactive exhibits lead visitors to explore, understand and enjoy the world in which they live.
Open Tuesday-Sunday.

Peralta Adobe & Fallon House (0.6 mi)
175 West St. John Street
San Jose, CA 95110
408.287.2290
The Peralta Adobe, originally built in 1797, is the last remaining structure from El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, California's very first settlement. The Fallon House, a 15-room Victorian Mansion built by an early San Jose mayor is tucked around the corner from the many fine restaurants on downtown San Jose's San Pedro Square. These two well-preserved original buildings represent a piece of California history and offer a quiet retreat from the hi-tech hi-rises of downtown San Jose.

History Museum and Park of San Jose (2.4 mi)
1650 Senter Road; Kelley Park,
San Jose, California 95112
408.287.2290
Located at the south end of Kelley Park, this beautiful park, with 27 original and replica homes, businesses and landmarks, highlights periods of Santa Clara Valley's past.

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (2.6 mi)
1342 Naglee Avenue
San Jose CA
408.947.3636
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, architecturally inspired by the Temple of Amon at Karnak, houses the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts on exhibit in the western United States.

Mexican Heritage Plaza (2.7 mi)
1700 Alum Rock Avenue
San Jose, CA 95116
800.MHC.VIVA
This 55,000 square-foot cultural center includes a 500-seat state-of-the-art theater, thematic gardens, and La Galeria, a 4,000-square foot exhibition space with two art galleries celebrating the Latino legacy.

Winchester Mystery House (5.5 mi)
525 South Winchester Boulevard
San Jose, CA
408.247.2000
Come visit San Jose's most famous tourist attraction! In 1884, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester began a huge construction project that took the next 38 years to build. The Victorian mansion, designed and built by the Winchester Rifle heiress, is filled with so many unexplained oddities, that it has come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House. There are windows built into the floor, staircases that lead to nowhere and doors that open onto blank walls. With 4 stories, 47 fireplaces, 17 chimneys, and 950 doors, the guided tours can be quite amazing.

Lick Observatory (13.4 mi)
Mt. Hamilton, CA 95140
408.274.5061
Daily Programs (weekdays 12-5pm, weekends 10am-5pm)
Lick Observatory is a leading astronomical research observatory with a long and distinguished history. Lick Observatory is located on 4200' Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range, east of San Jose, California. Largest among its nine research-grade telescopes is the Shane 3-meter Reflector, active since 1960.

New Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum (14.4 mi)
21350 Almaden Road
San Jose, CA
408.323.1107
Housed inside an 1854 hotel known as La Casa Grande, the museum traces the rise and fall of quicksilver mining in the once-flourishing town of New Almaden.