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🍊🏠A 12 acre Historical Museum & Events Center, HMOC is dedicated to Preserving, Promoting & Restoring OC’s Nature, History, Culture & Community!#HMOC

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📣😱October may be over but we’re not stopping with the Fall Fun all month long, starting TODAY!

🌼💀TONIGHT is the return of our FREE Dia de Los Muertos community celebration, open to ALL! Live entertainment, folklorico and Azteca dancers, food, vendors, community altar, arts and crafts and more! Join us from 5-9pm!

💃🏻🥁🪘Our 3rd Annual FREE Powwow with @redboy.productions is back to celebrate Native American Heritage Month on Nov 14th! This family and pet friendly event is free and open to all members of the public! Enjoy Authentic dance & song performances, Fry bread & Indian tacos, Arts & crafts, Information & vendor booths and more!

👻 @darcystaniforth is keeping the @hauntedorangecounty ghost tour through our spooky Victorian Kellogg House going with an after Halloween special tour.

🎃 @creepitrealoc reruns with Halloween’s unfinished business as they kick off the spooky holidays with Creep it Real Feative and over 120 spooky holiday vendors!

🏡Sunday the 15th HMOC is holding an Open House with a special Community Stories guest speaker presentation on “Signs from the Afterlife” with Jackie Campbell

🤩 be sure to visit our full events calendar on line at HeritageMuseumOC.org to not miss out! 💃🏻

See you at the museum! 👻 by @heritagemusoc

📣💃🏻ONE MONTH AWAY! Join us for the 3rd Annual HMOC x RedBoy Productions FREE Community Powwow celebrating Native American Heritage Month!

This family and pet friendly event is free and open to all members of the public!

Enjoy:

Authentic dance & song performances
Fry bread & Indian tacos
Arts & crafts
Information & vendor Booths
and more! by @heritagemusoc

🫂A message to our HMOC Family - Un mensaje para nuestra Familia HMOC

At the Heritage Museum of Orange County, we remain a safe and welcoming place for all.

En el Heritage Museum of Orange County, todos están seguros y bienvenidos.

Even as many families and individuals face uncertain times, our commitment to the community has never been stronger.

Aunque muchas familias e individuales enfrentan tiempos inciertos, nuestra dedicación a nuestra comunidad permanecerá.

We believe in the power of history, education, and connection to bring people together and offer hope. Whether you’re visiting us to learn, reflect, or simply find a moment of peace, you are welcome here. Our doors—and our hearts—are always open to all.

Creemos en el poder de la historia, educación y conexión para unir a las personas y brindar esperanza. Ya sea que nos visiten para aprender, reflexionar o simplemente encontrar un momento de paz, les damos la bienvenida. Nuestras puertas - y nuestros corazones - siempre están abiertas para todos.

If you or someone you know is in need of support, resources are available through the Orange County Rapid Response Network at OCRapidResponse.org which offers guidance and assistance to those during these times.

Si usted o alguien que conoce necesita apoyo, hay recursos disponibles a través de Orange County Rapid Response en OCRapidResponse.org, que ofrece dirección y asistencia durante estos tiempos.

🫶 by @heritagemusoc

👻Halloween is over, but the spooky scary fun continues all month long at Haunted Orange County with five of your favorite haunted historical tours returning, led by our incredible, informative and entertaining tour guides.

🗣️💀Come tour with us at HauntedOC.com
Orange County’s oldest and original ghost tour company 🙌 by @heritagemusoc

A night of tradition, warmth, and family. 🕯️🌼Día de los Muertos at the Heritage Museum of Orange County brought the community together to honor those who came before us. It was a beautiful evening to walk through with family and friends, introduce the kids to the rich heritage of the ofrendas, and celebrate life through art, marigolds, and shared memories.A truly special gathering for all ages to experience the heart of Día de los Muertos right here in OC. 💛

#heritagemuseum #orangecountycalifornia by @heritagemusoc

‼️🎶‼️BREAKING NEWS‼️🎶‼️

TRICK-OR-TREAT!!! 🎃 They waited for the invitation to arrive and GUESS WHAT?! OINGO BOINGO FORMER MEMBERS (@oingoboingoformermembers ) will be performing LIVE IN CONCERT🎙️🎶 at Creep It Real FESTIVE🎃🎄 (@creepitrealoc ) on BOTH SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21st and SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22nd!

Get ready to dance like it’s 1985 🎸 OINGO BOINGO FORMER MEMBERS are taking over the MAIN STAGE for Two Nights of live music and nostalgia including all your favorite hits!

Featuring original Oingo Boingo members including Steve Bartek, Johnny “Vatos” Hernandez, Sam “Sluggo” Phipps, John Avila, and Carl Graves, this is a FULL-LENGTH CONCERT experience featuring the songs you know and love, including Dead Man’s Party, Weird Science, Only a Lad, and Just Another Day plus many more!

📅 Saturday, November 21 & Sunday, November 22
⏰ 8:30 PM
📍 Main Stage at Creep It Real FESTIVE (@creepitrealoc ) @heritagemusoc in Santa Ana, Ca

TWO NIGHTS. ONE EPIC DEAD MAN’S PARTY. 💀

🎟️And the best part? Your Creep It Real FESTIVE admission includes the concert! No extra concert ticket required. Happy Halloween 🎃

ℹ️🎃Check out CreepItRealOC.com for tickets and info 🎸👻

Come for the spooky Christmas magic. Stay for the Boingo! 🎄🖤

Artist: @cole_cartoons

#creepitrealfestive #oingoboingo #oingoboingoformermembers #creepitrealoc by @heritagemusoc

📣🕯️🌼TOMORROW! Our FREE community Dia de los Muertos celebration and community altar (ofrenda) is back Sunday Nov 1st with live entertainment, Folklorico and Azteca dancers, food, vendors, community altar, arts and crafts and more!

📍@heritagemusoc Heritage Museum of Orange County 
3101 W. Harvard St, Santa Ana, CA 92704 
🗓️ Sunday, November 1st, 2026 
⏰ 5pm to 9pm by @heritagemusoc

💀🕯️🌼 What is El Día de Los Muertos?

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday that honors loved ones who have passed. It is a Latin American tradition with Indigenous roots that originted thousands of years ago from the Aztec, Toltec, and Nahua people. It is a multi-day celebration from October 27th to November 2nd•. Most public
festivities usually occur on November 1st and 2nd. On these days, communities gather to build ofrendas, decorte family gravesites, dance, masquerade as death, and light the poth of return for the dead back to their loved ones.

📣Join us SUNDAY NOV 1st for our own FREE community Dia de los Muertos celebration here at the museum from 5-9! by @heritagemusoc

👻THURSDAY! Tour the infamous Kellogg House, the true life haunted Victorian mansion at @heritagemusoc with TWO tours with ghost hostess @darcystaniforth leading guests through the beloved community icon and all its history and ghostly experiences.

Find out for yourself why paranormal experts from across the nation like @bridgetmarquardt come to explore this local treasure and all its ghost stories!

🎟️Limited tickets left can be found at HauntedOC.com by @heritagemusoc

📣🕯️🌼SUNDAY! Our FREE community Dia de los Muertos celebration and community altar (ofrenda) is back Nov 1st with live entertainment, Folklorico and Azteca dancers, food, vendors, community altar, arts and crafts and more!

📍@heritagemusoc Heritage Museum of Orange County 
3101 W. Harvard St, Santa Ana, CA 92704 
🗓️ Sunday, November 1st, 2026 
⏰ 5pm to 9pm by @heritagemusoc

📣🕯️🌼THIS SUNDAY Nov 1st, we welcome the return of our FREE HMOC Dia de Los Muertos celebration and community altar (ofrenda), back to Heritage Museum of Orange County from 5 to 9pm with live entertainment, food, vendors, community altar, arts and crafts and more open to ALL! Join us! 💃🏻

🎥: @xolosupplyco by @heritagemusoc

🎃👻IT’S HERE! Halloween week has started and we’ve got 6 of your favorite ghost tours running all week, but there’s limited tickets left for select tours so book NOW!

🎟️Visit HauntedOC.com for tour details and dates by @heritagemusoc