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Fullerton is a weird town. Not weird in the political parlance du jour, as something extreme or creepy or as a schoolyard label to ostracize those perceived as being different, but in the way a UC Riverside professor recently described it in an LA Times opinion piece: as a compliment, something “strikingly contrary to the ordinary, predictable, and easily comprehensible.”
Weird is also the Fullerton Museum Center, both for its 35-year track record of presenting the most eclectic programming of any cultural institution in the county, and the fact that despite the city abruptly cutting off all funding four years ago, it’s still operational.
Credit for that goes to an overworked and underpaid skeleton staff, a nonprofit board whose members have been forced to take a much more hands-on approach to running it, a small army of volunteers and community members pitching in to keep it afloat, and an executive director whose creativity and resourcefulness has managed to keep the lights on while remaining true to the museum’s mission.
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