Culver City is a city in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,779. Founded in 1917 as a "whites only" Sundown Town, it is now a multicultural city with what was called the “third-most diverse school district in California” in 2020.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology's collection includes a mixture of artistic, scientific, ethnographic, and historic, as well as some unclassifiable exhibits, and the diversity of its offerings evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 16th-century predecessors of modern natural history museums.

The Wende Museum is a collections-based research and education institute that preserves Cold War artifacts and history. It makes resources available to scholars and applying historical lessons of the past to the present.