The Carnegie Museum of Kings County, is a museum in Hanford, Kings County, central

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History

The building was built in 1905 in the Romanesque Revival style with

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elements. It was one of the many Carnegie libraries that were funded by steel magnate

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, who awarded the city $12,500 to construct it. The Hanford Library was open in the Carnegie building until 1968, when the city and Kings County libraries were combined and moved into a new building. Local citizens raised the money to save the old library building from destruction and to renovate it.

Museum

The Hanford Carnegie Museum opened in the restored Carnegie Library building in 1974. In 2021, the Museum name was changed to The Carnegie Museum of Kings County, to reflect the Museum intent to present a larger community history. The

history museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...

has displays of Kings County’s people and institutions, to illustrate and explain the history of King’s County and the area in the western

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