The Big Day of Giving is coming, May 02, 2024, when the community shows support for Sacramento area non-profits through donations. We at the Sacramento History Museum hope you consider making a donation. Your support enables us to provide education scholarships and develop new school programs, plus create exhibits to share our history and your stories. Don’t wait! Early Giving is underway NOW!

Celebrate Spring with the fun, free and family-friendly Old Sacramento Spring Festival, Sunday, April 28, 2024, from 11 am – 3 pm.  Join us for hourly dances around a 15-foot maypole, as well as traditional country dances to live music. Festival attendees can also enjoy historic living history demonstrations, hands-on arts-and-crafts stations, hobby-horse races, gold panning, face painting, lawn games, and more.

Spend a night on the new town with a shady character from the past, who’ll show you around to the saloons, gaming halls, theaters and houses of ill-fame – places you can only see in the twilight. Meet swindlers, soiled doves and sneaky speculators! Hear all the gossip on murders of passion, political intrigue, and the century’s most notorious woman! Needless to say, you must be 18 or older to take part.

Spring into April by taking a TOUR!

Come see and learn how Sacramento lifted itself up out of the flood waters during the 1860s and 1870s!

Go Underground Mondays – Fridays at  noon and 1:30 PM, Saturday and Sunday at 11 AM, 11:30, 12:30, 1 PM, 2 pm, and 2:30. Your tour ticket includes museum admission!

Join the Sacramento History Museum and Historian Mary Ellen Burns for a workshop series to help you find and tell your story. The workshops are free to members of the museum,  or any Sacramento historical or cultural association. All others are $10 per workshop. Book your Sessions now!

Since 1923, Soroptimist International of Sacramento has supported women and girls in their education and career development and joined in campaigns to end gender-based violence and raise awareness of gender equality and women’s rights.

From indigenous and cultural coming of age practices to tattooed ladies performing in sideshows to the upper-class Victorian women who helped popularize the tattoo trend, visitors will discover the largely unknown history of California women and tattoos through photographs, personal histories, and artifacts. Free with admission.