History San Jose

History San Jose collects, preserves and celebrates the stories of diversity and innovation in San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley. History San Jose operates three locations: History Park a historical and cultural campus featuring 19 partner organizations who each tell their own history in their own words; the Peralta Adobe-Fallon House Historic Site one of the oldest and most significant locales in San Jose; and the Collection Center the Valleys collective memory. Every day we continue to collect contemporary history documenting the social and political happenings in the Valley. We preserve a collection of more than 500,000 artifacts, including a Research Library and Archives used by locals as well as a world-wide audience. We celebrate the Valleys history by creating exhibitions featuring the collections; by engaging the community in fun hands-on family programs and events; and by offering award-winning standards-based school programs for over 20,000 students and their te...