"The longest continuously-operating art museum in the Western U.S. is housed in two contrasting buildings: one a late 19th-century Italianate mansion—the one-time home of Edwin and Margaret Crocker—and the other a rounded modern structure built in 2010 to hold art studios, a larger library and an auditorium. The Crocker Museum has one of the world’s best collections of California art, from the early 1870s onward." - Sophie Friedman