Museum of American Heritage

Selections from the collection are displayed in a historic house at 351 Homer Ave, Palo Alto, California.

From 1995 through 1998 the museum occupied a former BMW dealership at 3401 El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

Organizations that have borrowed exhibit materials from MOAH include the San Francisco International Airport museum, the Los Altos History Museum, San Jose State University theater department, and the Stanford Federal Credit union.

The Museum of American Heritage is currently open to the public in the Williams House on Homer Ave. in Palo Alto.

This house was custom built in 1907 by Dr. Thomas Williams for his residence and private medical practice.

[14] Significant features of the Williams house include: The Williams house is currently on the Palo Alto Historic Inventories list as a Category II on the Palo Alto Historic Building Inventory.

Early photographs of the Williams' property[16] show an open vista with an unobstructed view of the house, the beginnings of landscape, and only a few native trees.

Featuring "outdoor rooms" delineated by rock walls and border plantings and punctuated by ornamental fountains and ponds.

Edison Louis XV brand phonograph. According to the placard, only 60 were made and cost US$425 in 1912.
Adding machine constructed from Lego pneumatics by a member of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group
Path in the backyard garden