Period Rooms July 8, 2009

The museum's "period rooms" include a 1930s kitchen modeled after Merle Norman's, the businesswoman who began her cosmetics career in her Santa Monica home kitchen. The museum's pantry and kitchen also host changing pottery and kitchenware exhibits and have included the brightly glazed production ware of California companies including Bauer, Catalina, Vernon, Pacific and Sascha Brastoff.