Supported through City funding and community donations, the museum offers changing exhibits on Capitola history and is kept open four afternoons a week by a group of dedicated volunteers.

Being a Capitola Museum volunteer requires only an interest in the community and a willingness to spend a few hours a month greeting visitors. If you would like to become one of our helpers, please fill out the form below and click to submit it. Out volunteer coordinator will contact you with more information.

We would love to have you involved! The museum is open from 12 noon - 4 pm, Wednesdays, and Fridays through Sundays. The phone number is 464-0322.

Former Capitola Mayor Phil Walker founded the Capitola Museum in 1966 in a small room behind the Capitola Chamber of Commerce and called it a "one-room Smithsonian Institute." A year later, in 1967, he bought a farm cottage on Thompson Avenue in Live Oak that was slated for demolition because it was in the path of a roadway expansion project. Walker paid $25 for the cottage and convinced the City to provide space for it in the Capitola City Hall parking lot. The building was moved to Capitola on 24 October 1967 and the museum was opened to the public in the Spring of 1968.