Museum of American Heritage, History museum in downtown Palo Alto, United States.

The Museum of American Heritage occupies the Williams House and displays household machines and devices from around two centuries across seven exhibition rooms. The collection includes everyday items, mechanical equipment, and early transportation objects arranged throughout the rooms of this residence.

The museum grew from the private collection of Frank Livermore, a Menlo Park accountant who bought a vintage Standard vacuum sweeper in the early 1960s and collected for two decades. He incorporated MOAH in 1985; it opened to the public on September 20, 1990, at 275 Alma Street. In 1994 the City of Palo Alto gave the museum stewardship of the Williams House at 351 Homer Avenue, where it opened in 1998 after restoration.

The collections show how people lived with new machines in their everyday homes across different decades. Walking through the rooms, you see what families actually used and valued in their daily lives over generations.

The museum occupies the Williams House at 351 Homer Avenue, with five rooms of rotating exhibits and six rooms of permanent displays, including a functioning print shop and an early 20th-century kitchen. Admission is free, with donations supporting the nonprofit. Allow a few hours to see the house and galleries at an easy pace.

The museum grew from Frank Livermore's private collection, which began in the early 1960s when he bought a vintage Standard vacuum sweeper from a local junk shop. A friend gave him a plaque reading "Smithsonian West," prompting him to found the museum, incorporated in 1985. The Livermore Collection numbered about 1,000 artifacts at his death.