In The News

Patrick Hannifin is one of our 2021 Wisteria Scholarship Award Winners. In this creative essay, he imagines a conversation with Phineas Banning. Patrick graduated from…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Livestream presentation of the Phineas Banning Virtual Birthday Celebration on August 26. We were so excited…

  The Banning Museum will begin offering limited tours of the Museum on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, following all City of Los Angeles guidelines. Advance…

This year, in an effort to help more Banning High School seniors who may have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Friends of Banning…

We are pleased to announce that Banning Heritage Week is now available virtually with two options for participation. The first option is the Virtual Banning…

The Friends of Banning Museum and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks are working to prepare the Banning Museum for re-opening.…

For the past 15 years, the Annual Tea and Tunes event at the Banning Museum was an elegant affair consisting of live music and afternoon…

Through funding from Marathon, Valero, and also from generous supporters, Friends of Banning Museum is proud to announce our first-ever virtual field trip for third…

We are extremely excited to announce that through a generous grant from The Port of Los Angeles, Friends of Banning Museum was able to work…

Normally this time of year, we welcome thousands of visitors to enjoy our annual Victorian Christmas. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 crisis, we were unable…