Barona Cultural Center & Museum

Although maintained as four discrete components, the Object Collections, Photo Archive, Media Archive, and Paper Archive are deeply intertwined since each contains items that relate to one another.

The Photograph and Media Archives include images of objects, people, and places in the Barona and surrounding Southern and Baja California Native American communities. In addition, the Document Archive includes field notes, project documentation, and institutional records for all aspects of the combined collections.

The rapidly growing archival collections document the cultural, political, and social mores of the Barona Band of Mission Indians and provides insight into the people and environment of Southern and Baja California Native American communities. Formats represented in the Barona Cultural Center & Museum archival repository include photographs, digital images, films, audio tapes, video tapes, and optical disks, as well as the more traditional unpublished letters, field notes, and other manuscripts.

Highlights of the collection include the Barona History Collection, the Barona Language Preservation Program materials, the Barona Veteran’s Wall of Honor Collection, the 2003 Cedar Fire Collection, the 1932 Irving Gill House Restoration and Evaluation Project materials, the Yuman Language Conference Collections, and the Barona Valley Ranch & Casino Collection.