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Website. www.californiamuseum.org. The California Museum is the state history museum of California, located in its capital city of Sacramento and housed within the Secretary of State building complex. It is home to the California Hall of Fame. Maria Shriver, former First Lady of California and founder of the California Hall of Fame.
This list of museums in California is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The California State Capitol Museum consists of a museum in and grounds around the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, United States. The building has been the home of the California State Legislature since 1869. The State Capitol Museum has been a property in the California State Parks system since 1982.
The newest class of the California Hall of Fame walked the red carpet in Sacramento on Tuesday before being honored during a ceremony inside the California Museum in downtown Sacramento.. The 17th ...
Here’s a full list of the Sacramento-area museums participating in Free Museum Weekend: Aerospace Museum of California in McClellan Park California Agriculture Museum in Woodland
Looking NW at 10th and L streets from the Capitol, c.1900 Looking west down M Street towards the old bridge, 1911. Following California's cession by Mexico and entry into the union as a state in 1850, San Jose, Vallejo, and Benicia each briefly served as the state Capitol until the legislature decided Sacramento best suited their needs for the state in 1854.
This organization worked for years to promote the idea of a railroad museum, donating 30 historic locomotives and cars to the California Department of Parks and Recreation to be the nucleus of a State-operated museum in Sacramento. The museum's first facility, the Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station, opened in 1976. The Railroad History ...
Sacramento. Built in 1898, at the corner of 9th and J Street in Sacramento, California, the 20,000 square feet building was built by the behest of Frank F. Ruhstaller and housed The Ruhstaller Brewery offices. Ruhstaller also managed Buffalo Brewery and made the building its headquarters as well.