Novato, The Early Years – 1879-1983

Novato’s Coronavirus Experience

In March 2020, Novato Historical Guild volunteers began collecting items that documented how the pandemic was affecting Novato residents, businesses, civic organizations, and non-profits. The over 300 Items collected include photographs, newspaper articles, interviews, personal stories and more. To view all collections, click here.

Novato Speaker Series

Chris Waugh
Designing a Life: Unveiling 7 Insights from Within Health and Wellness Innovation
Thursday, March 28, 2024: 7-8:30pm

Chris Waugh
Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer

As Sutter Health’s first Chief Innovation Officer, Chris Waugh applies his extensive experience in human-centered design to guide the integrated network’s innovation strategy. Human-centered design is a creative approach that seeks personalized solutions to meet individual needs — understanding people and their behaviors, identifying trends and exploring solutions that improve a person’s healthcare experience — in order to make healthcare more usable and accessible for patients, doctors and nurses. Before joining Sutter Health, Waugh held entrepreneurial leadership roles at IDEO, a globally regarded Bay Area design and innovation firm, and was vice president of design at One Medical Group in San Francisco where he helped create a culture of innovation. Waugh graduated from Fort Lewis College in Colorado, with bachelor’s degrees in international business and French.

For more information, and to purchase tickets please visit: www.novatospeakerseries.com


The Novato Historical Guild is a membership nonprofit organization founded in 1976.

Mission: To collect, preserve and make reasonably available to the public, exhibits and information related to the history of the Novato area.

The focus is on the greater Novato area from the land grant days of the early 1800’s to the present.

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Guild volunteers staff and support the Novato History Museum and the Hamilton Field History Museum in a partnership agreement with the City of Novato: the City owns the museum buildings and the historical collections, and the Guild ensures that the Museums are open to the public for educational exhibits and historical research.

The Guild hosts quarterly membership meetings, with guest speakers on local historic topics, and publishes The Novato Historian, a quarterly newsletter.

The public is welcome to visit and enjoy our local history museums.

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