The museum is called the Casa Grande, so not surprisingly, the two-story, 27-room building in San Jose’s Almaden Valley is big. Situated behind a white picket fence and surrounded by several acres of gardens, the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Museum is a jewel located at the southern end of the city.
The building recently reopened after nearly a year of renovation designed to upgrade various systems in a structure that dates from the 1850s. Run by the county of Santa Clara since it opened in 1998, the museum is a good starting point for exploration of the New Almaden Historic District that surrounds it.
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