Meet the Interns: Taryn McMillen
By Rancho Staff internships, Uncategorized Oct 13, 2020
Name and Title: Taryn McMillen, Getty Marrow Curatorial Intern 2020 Education info: I studied art history at California State University, Long Beach, and graduated ...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
By Rancho Staff Uncategorized Oct 07, 2020
In honor of National Diversity Week 2020, we are proud to share our recently adopted Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) statement. In 2018, ...
Plants and Birds of the Moment
By Rancho Staff Gardens Oct 01, 2020
The Heliotropum (Heliotrope) is looking beautiful this month. In Adobe Days, Sarah Bixby Smith lists the plants she remembers from Temple’s garden. She ends ...
The Artisan Collection & Legacy Collection
By Rancho Staff Long Beach, Uncategorized, Visitor Information, volunteers Sep 29, 2020
The Rancho Los Cerritos museum shop is full of one-of-a-kind products. These products are hand made by local artisans and volunteers. These hand-made products ...
Garden Updates
By Rancho Staff Gardens, Visitor Information Sep 10, 2020
Grass Resodding Our grass is being resodded so that it will look great for when we can have in-person events in the future. This ...
Recruited by Long Beach Police Captain Tom Williams as a “social experiment” in January 1908, Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) is believed to have been ...
Plant of the moment: Princess Flower!
By Rancho Intern Gardens Jul 30, 2020
Plant of the moment: the Princess Flower The princess flower (pictured above) or the Tibourchina urvillean, has 3-4” leaves that can be green, ...
Meet the Summer Interns! Taryn and Misael
By Rancho Intern internships Jul 27, 2020
Meet the Summer Interns! Hello everyone! We are so excited to be interning at Rancho Los Cerritos this summer. Even though things are a ...
Plant of the Moment July
By Rancho Staff Gardens Jul 06, 2020
Plant of the Moment: Hydrangea macrophylla – Hydrangea. The shrub next to the veranda in the backyard gardens is having a stellar season, ...
What is Juneteenth?
By Sarah Wolk FitzGerald Events, history Jun 18, 2020
Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19th to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday dates back to June 19, 1865 ...