San Jose Museums

Our friends at SJ Today have a list of San Jose museums. However, it misses a few interesting ones. After you click through to the link, come back here to see what was excluded.

There is a new Adobe museum on the ground floor of the Adobe Tower 4 headquarters in Downtown San Jose. It's free, has a history of Adobe's software, and has a slick virtual reality room.

Also in Downtown San Jose is a new Italian Heritage museum in Little Italy San Jose. An added bonus is a speakeasy underneath the building.

In Almaden, there is a Quicksilver Mining Museum, which chronicles San Jose's mining industry last century.

Lastly, History Park is not one museum but multiple. Here you will find the Portuguese Historical Museum, the Viet Museum, and Chinese American Historical Museum. They also have a replica light tower and several restored historical buildings. It's a great place to visit, especially during major events, and you can easily combine it with a trip to the neighboring Japanese Friendship Gardens or Happy Hollow Park & Zoo.

Source: SJ Today