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Location
Parking
free parking available at George Izay Park entrance at 1100 West Clark Avenue and adjacent lot next to ball fields (accessible from Clark Avenue, nearest cross street Mariposa)
Best time
Visit on Saturday or Sunday between 1-4pm to tour the restored 1887 Mentzer House, a period-furnished Victorian home that provides insight into early Burbank settler life.
Visitor tip
Check the website for rotating film screenings like silent movies, which reviews highlight as exceptional experiences best enjoyed with an audience. The museum covers diverse Burbank history from settlers and wineries to Lockheed aircraft and movie industry.
Quick Facts
- Type
- History Museum
- Hours
- Saturdays & Sundays 1-4 PM (plus group reservations)
- Key Highlights
- First U.S. patented monorail (1907), local industrial and aviation history
- Group Tours
- $5 per adult, children free; schools free
What visitors say
While the address is on Lomita St., that door always says closed as it is an emergency exit. The actual entrance and large parking lot is off 1100 W Clark Ave around the block. Navigate here and you sill see the entrance. Free entrance…
The Mentzer House historical plaque inscription: Built 1887. Relocated in 1977. Original address 321 East Orange Grove. Historic designation June 20, 2013. Burbank Register of Residential Historic Resources #7. 1887 Mentzer House: Built…
All kinds of great artifacts to teach us about local Burbank history. Movie history, war history and founders history. Really a fascinating place to spark your time-traveler's imagination. I came for the free Silent movie screening…
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Did You Know?
- The museum houses the first U.S. patented monorail from 1907, a rare early transportation innovation artifact
- The Mentzer House, built in 1887 and relocated to the museum in 1977, was originally constructed by the Providencia Land and Water Company to showcase potential to settlers and is furnished in period-authentic 1880s furnishings
- A Grangetto Winery sign discovered in 1995 after being buried for over 50 years when the property owner was excavating for a swimming pool, marking the entrance to a historic Italian-American vineyard operation from the late 1800s
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