Exhibits are rotated in the Sangster-Watkins-Underwood home rooms periodically. From the museum’s opening in the 1899 renovated building in 2009, the museum has presented exhibits on Yurok-Karuk jewelry & adornment, porcupine quills used in basket-making, Native American cooking implements, dresses and regalia by Shoshini Gensaw-Hostler, the 1871 Trinidad Head Lighthouse, whaling between 1920 & 1927, commercial history, Trinidad architecture, fishing, Orick’s history, sawmilling, schools, the building of the Redwood Highway in the early 1920s and subsequent tourist lodging and tourist destinations, the opening of Redwood National Park and Lady Bird Johnson Grove in 1968, commemorating World War I Trinidad veterans, forming Trinidad Civic Club in 1913, Crannell logging, trains, fungi, flora, sea and shore marine life, geology, the Gold Rush, the 1873 Holy Trinity Church, the Spanish landing in Trinidad June 9-19, 1775 and more.

See the Current Exhibits  page for the most recent exhibits.

Permanent exhibits include the Axel Lindgren Jr Yurok hand carved redwood canoe and background mural painted by Susan Morton, the A.W. Ericson printing press used to print “Trinidad News & Views” in 1980, a fragment from the original wooden Spanish cross erected on Trinidad Head on June 11, 1775, the Caleb Whitbeck painting of the Spanish frigate “Santiago” and schooner “Sonora,” the decommissioned 1947 electric fifth order Fresnel lens from Trinidad Head Lighthouse, Yurok and Karuk caps and baby baskets, a diorama ofTsurai Village, the Axel Lindgren Sr. fishing nets, the circa 1900 Muskogee cooking stove, historic Trinidad maps and paintings and more.

Past exhibits in the Historical Photographs room are documented and available online.