Museums - Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House

Since its inauguration in 1986, the Grace Hudson Museum has become an increasingly important cultural and educational resource for Northern California. The museum is an art, history and anthropology institution focusing on the lifeworks of artist Grace Carpenter Hudson (1865–1937) and her ethnologist husband, Dr. John W. Hudson (1857–1936). The museum’s collections consist of more than 30,000 interrelated objects, with significant holdings of Pomo Indian artifacts (particularly basketry), ethnographic field notes, unpublished manuscripts, historic photographs, and a comprehensive collection of Hudson’s paintings. The museum is located in the four-acre Hudson-Carpenter Park, which features a basketry garden containing plants used by Pomo Indian weavers to create their baskets.
Changing interdisciplinary exhibitions and public programs at the museum emphasize western American art, California Indian cultures, the history of California’s diverse North Coast region, and the work of contemporary regional artists.