The 9 passenger mountain wagon has now been completed by the local group of E Clampus Vitas. This is a fantastic restoration done by this volunteer group who has restored several of our collection including mountain wagons, Weber grain wagon, Army Wagon and a Brewster Victoria carriage. The Victoria Stables wagon was used as a […]
Our new saddle room show casing our Old Spanish Days Horse Show Trophy Saddles. Saddles dating back to 1933. Read More
HAVE YOU SEEN ONE OF THESE WON ONE OR OWN ONE. The carriage Museum is doing research on all of the saddles built from the 1920 thru 1988. The Makers were Visalia Stock Saddle company, Jedlickas Dick May Saddlery and Juan Laura Saddlery. Saddles were made fully carved and the Old Spanish Days Logo carved […]
Visit Our You Tube Channel. www.youtube.com/@carriagemuseum See our videos from the Santa Barbara History Makers Exhibit featuring Silsby Spalding, WW Hollister, Dixie and more
Recently Susan Ashbrook visited the museum and did a new video of Vice President Tom Peterson. Susan was at the museum 15 years ago. View Viedeo
Morgan Peterson is now a board member of the Carriage Museum. He is in charge of our Technology functions and is currently working on our YouTube Channel. Morgan is director of IT at CompuVison located in Santa Barbara. Morgan has been with the company for over 20 years. He is also the son of Tom […]
This is a very early and rare saddle made in the 1850s by Chas H. Mead out of San Francisco. Chas was born in New York City in 1814 and moved to California in the 1850s. He set up his saddle shop on the corner of Front and Jackson St. in San Francisco and remained […]
The Frederic Remington bronze statue, “Off the Range (Coming Through the Rye)”, was donated to the museum by Union Bank through our board member Angela Miller-Bevan. This large bronze statue was created by Remington in 1902 and cast in 1903. This was the largest and most complex bronze statue he ever made. This statue is […]
Dylan Peterson is now President of the museum. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1995 and received a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from UCSB in 2004. Shortly thereafter he acquired his Master’s degree in biochemistry. He has published multiple research papers on Alzheimer’s disease but he is currently the Academic Coordinator for the […]
About the Book “Joe De Yong: A Life in the West” is the story of a passionate cowboy’s life in the America West during the first part of the last century. Over ten years of research has revealed the life of a relatively unknown artist/illustrator who started out to be “just a cowboy.” Turns out, […]