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# Museum offers free open house to new exhibit
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/museum-offers-free-open-house-to-new-exhibit/
- Published: 2005-12-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:15:28.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The public is invited to view a new exhibit hosted by the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum. The museum will offer a free Christmas Open House of “Marion Davies Estate” on Dec. 11 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This new exhibit will explore the architecture and interior design of the Marion Davies Estate through historic photographs from the Bison Archives. The exhibit reception will be on Jan. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. with a special lecture by Marc Wanamaker, a celebrity historian of Bison Archives Production. For more information, call (310) 395-2290.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 2, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120205.pdf?ref=smdp.com)