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Special Events and Tours

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Upcoming Events

  • An Educating Conversation: Learning from Elders
    An Educating Conversation: Learning from Elders
    4 days to the event
    Mar 28, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (Barbareño Chumash elder), James Yee, Dr. Amy Foss: Learning from Elders Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
  • Free SBMAL Open House: April
    Free SBMAL Open House: April
    12 days to the event
    Apr 05, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Join us at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on the first Saturday of the month for our free open house! Come see treasures from the SBMAL collection and get a tour of the archive-library. Free to attend. 9:30am-12pm. No RSVP required.
  • An Educating Conversation: Vincentian Health Care & Social Service in Santa Barbara
    An Educating Conversation: Vincentian Health Care & Social Service in Santa Barbara
    32 days to the event
    Apr 25, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Sergey Salushchev, PhD & Sr. Arthur Gordan, D.C.: Vincentian Health Care & Social Service in Santa Barbara Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
  • Free SBMAL Open House: May
    Free SBMAL Open House: May
    40 days to the event
    May 03, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Join us at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on the first Saturday of the month for our free open house! Come see treasures from the SBMAL collection and get a tour of the archive-library. Free to attend. 9:30am-12pm. No RSVP required.
  • An Educating Conversation: Mapping the Chumash
    An Educating Conversation: Mapping the Chumash
    67 days to the event
    May 30, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Dr. John Johnson, Curator Emeritus, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History & Guest: Mapping the Chumash Join a select group of those interested in an informative conversation with experts who will first share from a vast store of knowledge, then engage with those present in a lively give & take.
  • Free SBMAL Open House: June
    Free SBMAL Open House: June
    75 days to the event
    Jun 07, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Join us at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on the first Saturday of the month for our free open house! Come see treasures from the SBMAL collection and get a tour of the archive-library. Free to attend. 9:30am-12pm. No RSVP required.
  • Free SBMAL Open House: July
    Free SBMAL Open House: July
    103 days to the event
    Jul 05, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Join us at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on the first Saturday of the month for our free open house! Come see treasures from the SBMAL collection and get a tour of the archive-library. Free to attend. 9:30am-12pm. No RSVP required.
  • Free SBMAL Open House: August
    Free SBMAL Open House: August
    131 days to the event
    Aug 02, 2025, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
    Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
    Join us at the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library on the first Saturday of the month for our free open house! Come see treasures from the SBMAL collection and get a tour of the archive-library. Free to attend. 9:30am-12pm. No RSVP required.

Hours
By appointment only on most Wednesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays 
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Closed on federal holidays and other occasions.

Location
​Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library
2201 Laguna Street 
Santa Barbara, CA 93105

Sister Organizations: 

Connect with Us
(805) 682-4713, ext. 131 
research@sbmal.org

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We would like to acknowledge that SBMAL is located on the traditional ancestral territory of the

Barbareño Chumash people, and where Franciscan friars have sought to proclaim the Gospel since 1786.

© 2016 by the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library. Federal Tax ID# 95-6220730.

The Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the John and Beverly Stauffer Foundation,

and many others, whose contributions have enabled us to remain open.

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