About this vendor
Thank you for envisioning your event at the Oakland Museum of CA (OMCA).
The Event Sales Department is not accepting rental inquiries for events happening before January 2023. We look forward to your inquiry for events happening in 2023.
Due to staff transition, our response time will be a bit slower. We thank you in advance for your patience.
Located next to Lake Merrit and one block from BART, OMCA is within easy distance of downtown Oakland and Jack London Square.
Amenities + details
Ceremony Area
Dressing Room
Handicap Accessible
Indoor Event Space
Outdoor Event Space
Reception Area
Wireless Internet
Covered Outdoors Space
Liability Insurance
On-Site Accommodations
Business Attributes
- Woman-owned Business
Ceremony Types
- Civil Union
- Commitment Ceremony
- Elopement
- Interfaith Ceremony
- Non-Religious Ceremony
- Religious Ceremony
Settings
- Garden
- Historic Venue
- Museum
- Park
- Restaurant
Venue Service Offerings
- Destination Weddings
- Food & Catering
Reviews
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5
out of 5.03 reviews
We had our wedding ceremony and reception at the OMCA and it was the perfect venue! Precious and Katherine were very helpful and communicative throughout the process. Our outdoor c...
eremony was in the garden and we danced the night away in our reception venue, only a few feet away in the Blue Oak Cafe. There were a lot of options for how we could have used the various areas of the garden and the cafe together, so I felt like our ceremony and party was unique and perfectly fit us and our guests.
The only downside was that there were limited catering options and we had to choose a caterer that was a partner of the museum. It worked out well for us in the end, but I would recommend looking up the catering vendor prices while considering the price of the venue, since you will not be able to shop around outside the preferred vendors for a cheaper option if the catering options are expensive.
We had a phenomenal experience with the team at OMCA. The staff was friendly and professional. They made sure our wedding was a seamless and spectacular affair.
We had our wedding ceremony, reception and dinner in the gardens of OMCA. We chose it for a number of reasons - the location was fantastic (easy to get to from public transit, had ...
ample parking), it's a unique and fascinating museum (we had an amazing Dorothea Lange exhibit open for guests during the wedding, which people loved), and the gardens are huge, unique and beautiful and lend themselves to a lot of creativity of where to have the reception vs. ceremony, etc. There were a couple things OMCA had going on a few weeks before our wedding - their main wedding events coordinator left, and because the Warriors won the playoffs, they had more events than they had originally planned for. Even with all of this going on, the staff there, Catherine, and in particular Maria, really stepped up to the plate to take care of us and help make our wedding seamless and beautiful. Catherine was very professional in keeping us in the loop and addressing any concerns we had. Maria was incredibly responsive and attentive to every little detail of our wedding. We had a couple complicated requests, in particular with timing surrounding a surprise flash mob and the cake. Maria took the time to speak with us about those extra little details, coordinate with the vendors, and made sure that everything worked wonderfully and that I didn't have to think about a thing on my wedding day. She was a pleasure to work with. The gardens were absolutely magical on our wedding night, and we were very impressed with how the event was handled by OMCA staff. If we had a choice we would do it all over again at OMCA.
Contact
1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA
Oakland Museum of California