Welcome to the Lake Elsinore Historical Society Website!

The Society was founded to collect, protect, preserve, display, and further the preservation of items and documents of historical value and significance from the Lake Elsinore Valley.

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society was conceived and organized in 1996.  Today, there is a museum in historic downtown Lake Elsinore.  It is located in the basement of the City of Lake Elsinore's Cultural Center at 183 North Main Street.   The Museum is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Presently, this Museum is closed.  The State of California has adopted a law that buildings used by the public and built of unreinforced masonry must be brought up-to-date and seismic retrofitted in the event of an earthquake.

In the interim, a temporary museum is located at 15891 Grand Avenue, Suite #1, and is referred to as the Grand Avenue Museum.  It will be open the same hours as the downtown museum and as shown above. 
Read more about it here ...

The Lake Elsinore Historical Society is a nonprofit organization under Internal Revenue Code, Section 501(c)3.

For information call (951) 678-1537.