National Museum Day Celebration
In conjunction with Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live and in celebration of National Museum Day, the Catalina Island Museum offers free admission...
Catalina Film Festival
The Catalina Film Institute’s annual celebration of film features more than 100 films, nightly events and entertainment. The first few days of our event are launched from the mainland cities during our “Catalina Launch Week”...
Lobsterfest & Oktoberfest at El Galleon
Fresh caught local lobster dinners, traditional style with shrimp cornbread stuffing, fresh corn & rice pilaf...
First Fridays at the Museum (First Friday of each month)
First Fridays at the Museum encourages residents and visitors to explore the museum’s galleries, open-air plazas, digital theater and Museum Store...
When Sugar Loaf Stood: Paintings of Catalina Island before 1919
This painting exhibition borrowed from private collections documents early Catalina Island prior to the Wrigley Family ownership and the destruction of Sugar Loaf...
32nd Annual Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival
The longest running Smooth Jazz festival in America since 1987...
Aero Club Social Fly-In (2nd Sat. of the month, weather permitting)
Fly-in or take the Wildlands Express from the Avalon Plaza to the Airport in the Sky...
Windward Beach Cleanup (2nd Saturday each month)
Volunteer in the great outdoors while combing the sand for debris to help keep our windward beaches pristine...
Fall Fest
Live music, food, games, hayrides, pumpkin patch on the beach, and much more...
32nd Annual Catalina Island JazzTrax Festival
The longest running Smooth Jazz festival in America since 1987...