Exeter Historical Museum

Well what can you say about a small town museum. This one is connected with The Exeter Courthouse Gallery that exhibits a great variety of artwork on the weekends. The gallery is one of the finest small art galleries in the valley and has hosted many top notch artists from the west with their shows. The museum houses a collection of both local and regional history and is known to exhibit a surprising number of exceptionally rare artifacts from California history. I have seen documents from the Civil War Union army encampment, Camp Babbitt, located over in Visalia. The Union army posted the camp there to quell the Confederate sympathizers living in the southern San Joaquin Valley, and although it did so, it was at a price. The area is still a bastion of people from southern states, even today. Every museum has Native American artifacts and this one is no exception. For a small museum there is a very nice collection of many types of Native American artifacts from the past. Best of all there are video screens playing all the time with local historic photographs from the area. I am not saying this is the best museum I've ever visited, but for a small community, it holds its own for quality and collections. It really is a "Gotta See" place to visit when you are in Exeter at the antique shops and murals.