Monterey Peninsula Attractions

National Steinbeck Center

One Main Street

Salinas, CA 93901

Tel. (831) 796-3833

Fax. (831) 796-3828

info@steinbeck.org

www.steinbeck.org

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Unlike museums devoted to sports legends or war heroes, a museum that honors a man of arts and letters must reflect his quiet, solitary pursuit. Which is to say that such a repository may be unbearably dull.

How delightful, then, is the National Steinbeck Center at the end of Salinas' Main Street, a place whose undercurrents deliver shock after tiny shock--here an arc of unknown history, there a jolt of social commentary. The museum is just a couple of blocks from w...

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- Catharine Hamm, L.A. Times Staff Writer (Nov. 18, 2007)

National Steinbeck Center

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Price Range: $10.95 adults, $5.95-8.95 discounts, children under 6 free

Open Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily

Closed: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day & Easter

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