Gold Nugget Museum

Phone: 530.872-8722
Fax: 530.872.1050
502 Pearson Road, Paradise, CA

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Welcome to the Gold Nugget Museum

The Gold Nugget Museum was incorporated in 1973. Our mission is to preserve and protect The Ridge heritage through our collection and artifacts and with community education programs. More...

Contact Information

Street Address

502 Pearson Road,
Paradise, CA 95967

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Phone

(530) 872-8722

Email

goldnuggetmuseum@aol.com

Hours

Gold Nugget Museum, Noon-4:00 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday

Paradise Depot Museum, Noon-4:00 p.m., Weekends and Holidays


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News

Dutch Oven Cook-Off

A Cowboy Dutch Oven Cook-Off is being held at the Museum on Saturday, August 14 to raise funds for both the Paradise Boys and Girls Club and the Gold Nugget Museum. The event  will include entertainment, music, stories, a chuckwagon barbeque, and cowboy poetry reading. Tasting tickets will be available for purchase that day for $5. Cook-off judging and tasting will take place at 3:00. Cowboy poetry reading will take place at 6:00. If you'd like to enter the cook-off, e-mail Woody Culleton at moesteve@comcast.net or visit the Museum to obtain an entry form. Entry deadline is July 30. 

Posted on July 16, 2010, at 4:08 pm

Fine Art Show

The Gold Nugget Museum is presenting a Fine Art Show and Sale beginning Thursday, June 24, through Friday, July 30, 2010.  The art work pays homage to Native Americans, natural scenes and animals in the wild. The artists are: Ray Valdez, of the “Nanua-Yaqui” tribe from Reno, Nevada. Ray is a nationally known artist. His work is often very modern and color seems to jump off the canvas.; Esther Tupas of of the “Miwua- Washoe” tribe does beautiful work, painting and beading gourds. Esther learned this skill from David Snooks. She resides in Marysville; June Smith, a resident of the Ridge, sculpts in clay and will display work related to Native American people in the show;  Barbara Anne Ramsey, who also lives on the Ridge, has been a professional artist for 40 years. Her work is know throughout the U. S., Canada and England. At this show her paintings of  Wild Life and portraits of Pow Wow dancers will be on sale. Also on display are the Museum’s Native American artifacts The hand woven baskets are extraordinary to view.

Posted on June 25, 2010, at 12:34 pm

Gold Nugget Congratulations!

Congratulations to everyone for making this year's Gold Nugget Days another success. Winners of the various events include:

Gold Nugget Days Business Decorating Contest
A-1 Check Cashing

2010 Gold Nugget Queen
Katelyn Beckett

Donkey Derby
Bobbi Ryan

Sweeptstakes Float
Second Hand Sally's

Posted on April 29, 2010, at 10:18 am

Dogtown Nugget now available

The 2010 Dogtown Nugget is now available! Stop by the Museum for your free copy.

Posted on March 26, 2010, at 3:12 pm

Shop on-line

NEW! Can't make it to the Museum, but need a unique gift that says "Gold Nugget?" Click here to visit our new on-line gift shop, then just download a handy order form to bring the Gold Nugget Museum right to your door. Or, stop by the Museum and shop at our gift store in person. Remember, all museum members receive a ten percent discount at the shop. 

 

Posted on February 28, 2010, at 5:08 pm

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