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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
101 I Street, Sacramento, California, United States. Coordinates. 38°35′05″N 121°30′18″W / 38.58486°N 121.50499°W / 38.58486; -121.50499. Type. Historical museum. Website. sachistorymuseum.org. The Sacramento History Museum is a historical museum in Sacramento, California, which interprets the history of Sacramento and ...
California Automobile Museum (1987–present) / 38.5703872; -121.5117473. California Automobile Museum is an automobile museum located in Sacramento, California. It has a collection of over 150 classic cars, race cars, muscle cars and early models displayed throughout 72,000 square feet (6,700 m 2) of museum space.