The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is in the first month of a three-month process to move the lens of the historic Point Conception Lighthouse from its long-standing perch atop the point to the museum, ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) announced today that the relocation and restoration of the historic Point Conception Lighthouse Lens is complete, and the finished exhibit is now open to the ...

Point Conception, considered sacred ground by the Chumash, is the headland where California’s coast goes from a north-south orientation to east-west, making a natural division between Southern and ...

The leader of the project to remove the enormous antique lens at the Point Conception Lighthouse, restore it and put it on display in a museum, is enjoying the massive job, he told the Lompoc ...

On Monday morning, as bright sunshine cut through puffy clouds and ever-steady winds whipped the western edge of the continent, three of the nation’s five certified lampists could be found atop the ...

The Lompoc Public Library is featuring a display of the Point Conception Lighthouse and other lighthouses in the U.S. and from around the world through Monday. Point Conception Lighthouse is located ...

Located at Point Conception, the lens has been off limits to the general public in a remote location and surrounded by private ranchland, but it was once the lonely post of dedicated lighthouse ...