Sacramento Museum Day

Twenty-five  plus greater Sacramento area museums will be offering free admission during this day. See list of participating Museums:
http://www.sacmuseums.org/findamuseum.html

Art, History, Science, Wildlife:
The Many Museums of Sacramento

Sacramento’s Gold Rush history is one of adventure, ambition, and hard work—as the city’s numerous state-of-the-art museums and historic sites illustrate. From the heritage of California’s earliest inhabitants, to the exciting times of the Gold Rush and beyond, Sacramento has played a central role in Northern California’s growth and development. Today, as the capital city of the nation’s most populous state, Sacramento continues to pioneer in cutting-edge progress while remembering its past.

Visit the California Gold Rush’s commercial center (Old Sacramento State Historic Park), and step back in time to learn about the State’s earliest residents (California State Indian Museum) and the city’s original landlord (Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park). Stroll about the memorials to those who perished (Sacramento Historic City Cemetery), and follow the trail from statehood (California State Capitol Museum, Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park, Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park) to development of the vast Central Valley (California Museum for History, Women & the Arts, Discovery Museum’s Gold Rush History Center, Folsom History Museum, Heidrick Ag History Center).

As Northern California’s transportation and communications crossroads, Sacramento has a special affinity for the Pony Express (Wells Fargo History Museum), trains (California State Railroad Museum), cars (Towe Auto Museum), and planes (Aerospace Museum of California). Home to the West’s first art museum (Crocker Art Museum), Sacramento also has plenty of industrial and military heritage (California Foundry History Museum, California Military Museum). Healthcare (Donald F. Salvatori California Pharmacy Museum, Museum of Medical History), science and family education opportunities (Discovery Museum’s Science & Space Center, Explorit Science Center, Fairytale Town, Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum, Sacramento Zoo) are all represented in our museums, too!

Kathy Fleming, Chairman,
Sacramento Association of Museums