CRAFTSMAN WEEK 2026

Crafting Memories: Family at The Gamble House and Pasadena Museum of History. We welcome all ages for a free day of architecture, art, and exploration. The Gamble House and Pasadena Museum of History welcome all ages for a free day of architecture, art, and exploration. Picnics at both sites are welcome. AT THE GAMBLE HOUSE: Tours, a kinesthetic pinwheel art installation, crafting with Remainders Creative Reuse, Musical Storytime, Hummingbird Cantina. AT PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY: Tours of the Fényes Mansion and Finnish Folk Art Museum, custom cardboard tube race car, Route 66 & Colorado Boulevard exhibition. >> FREE, no reservations required.

Glass artist John Hamm leads this 2-hour tour where he examines the Greene’s vocabulary of design and the celebrated leaded art glass in the house.

A 2-1/2 hour docent-led tour where guests, with flashlight in hand, examine exquisite craftsmanship at close quarters and enter spaces not seen on the standard tour.

The Gamble House Book Club: THIS MONTH >> Metropolitan Stories: Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museum’s devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people—along with a few ghosts.

A 3-hour tour from a craftsman’s point of view, master cabinetmaker Jim Ipekjian explores the details that reveal how the house was crafted.

A 2-1/2 hour docent-led tour where guests, with flashlight in hand, examine exquisite craftsmanship at close quarters and enter spaces not seen on the standard tour.

A 1-1/2 hour guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that’s home to nine Greene & Greene houses. This tour does not have interior access to any homes on the tour route.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to tour Pasadena by bike with expert commentary from the Gamble House curator! What would Pasadena be without the architecture of Greene and Greene? Charles and Henry Greene’s contributions to Craftsman design formed Pasadena’s architectural identity in the early 20th century. This bike tour visits the local architecture of Greene and Greene, revealing the brothers’ creative processes and design journey throughout the ride.

A 2-1/2 hour docent-led tour where guests, with flashlight in hand, examine exquisite craftsmanship at close quarters and enter spaces not seen on the standard tour.

A 1-1/2 hour guided walk around the historic Arroyo Terrace neighborhood, a National Register historic district that’s home to nine Greene & Greene houses. This tour does not have interior access to any homes on the tour route.

A 1-hour guided exploration of the house and its history through rooms lined with rare woods, featuring handcrafted details, fixtures, and furnishings designed by the architects and unique to the house.