Really weird. Was in Victorville for the day and this popped up as a local attraction. This place really walks the line as to defining what museums are and their purpose.

Basically, the Route 66 Museum is a collection of... stuff without context. It's not well curated and it doesn't seem interested in telling you what these things are or their significance. There are a small handful of signs explaining things like the 15ft tall hula girl cutout, but even that information is incomplete and caused us to Google search more info while standing in the museum.

Mostly, this museum is a big storage unit. And because the collection is poorly curated some of it is modern stuff masquerading as antiques (like an off-the-shelf clabber girl baking powder you can get at any store put with the "antique" kitchen).

Moreover, it's not so much Route 66 related as it Victor Valley local history. There's some binders with local archive information that are mixed in with everything else. There's an entire manual for the camper trailer in the middle of the show room. But there's nothing about Route 66 specifically or its history or why this museum exists in this format.

There's a modest collection of Roy Rodgers memorabilia in a back corner and that area really highlights whats wrong with the museum as a whole. They have some local newspaper clippings of various quality but if you don't know anything about Roy Rodgers (like most people in 2025), there's no context, teaching, or anything else grab onto. It's not an exhibit that's trying to impart anything, it's stuff.

Cost of admission is free, but even then I'd give this place a pass. The Route 66 Museum appears to be a transparent tourist trap using Route 66 name recognition to lure in travelers from far away and extract a few bucks from them in "recommended donations" to keep the doors open on what is essentially an antique store where nothing is for sale.