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Comments (199)
Great museum with interesting information and displays. the workers are passionate about their jobs and you can definitely tell they enjoy what they do. we did the underground tour and had a blast!
As a Sacramento native hard to believe it took a field trip with my son for my first visit. Very informative & interesting. They have many tours so they do have to keep on schedule. Was cool to see areas of Old Sac that you have walked by not knowing that there are discovered relics behind doors. Will be back with a trip with the family.
They had floods, fires. Gold was discovered. They raised the streets and some of the buildings. Yupp, thats about it.
Had fun sifting through sand and trying to find gold. Also, inside had a lot of Sacramento history artifacts. They showed printing presses, gold nuggets, old maps, clothes, and food production. Definitely kid friendly and would recommend to come here and learn about local history.
It is a small museum but well put together. It gives a good sense of what life in Sacramento was like in the old days and several displays tell of the life of prominent individuals.While I was there the first time they had an interesting reenactor give a lengthy presentation on the history of the early Sacramento Printing industry, especially the Sacramento Bee. He gave demonstrations on how the printing process worked and showed how the presses (some of which are the original presses from the Sacramento Bee) operated.The second time I went I got to see the ghost tour. While not as grand or spooky was I had imagined in my head, it was still a fun and informative experience in which the lives, and often tragic ends, of historic residents were brought to life by a small army of volunteers.Overall Id recommend the museum to anyone Visiting Old Town Sacramento. Dont expect anything too grandiose, after all, it is a small museum with a small budget but they manage to do a lot with what they have and will teach you a lot about the history of our city.
Awesome museum! Anyone with an interest in California history will enjoy it. The Acorns to Avocados exhibit was especially captivating. We went on half-priced day
You have to come and enjoy the museum and get your knowledge on. I loved it. Come and take a walk into our past.
This review is mainly about the underground walking tour. Keep in mind, the ticket price includes entry into the museum. Definitely leave time before or after the tour to peruse this space.Being a newish member of the West Coast, I was excited to learn more about the state that I chose to call home. Sacramento has such rich history and this tour did a great job of encasing you in it.At the tours start we were greeted by a woman dressed in era-appropriate attire. She sprinkled facts about her personal life throughout and seamlessly referred to cars as horseless carriages. I think she couldve been a little more animated, but those little details helped elevate the experience.Visitors are given headsets so the tour guide can continue talking while walking the bustling streets of Old Sacramento. Unfortunately, my headphones were finicky at times; fortunately, the worst of it happened right as we entered the first underground space.I absolutely love exploring historic towns and this reminded me of Colonial Williamsburg. Entertainment for all ages!Sidenote, my fiancé and I learned about this tour after stumbling upon a different one at the Stanford Mansion on N street which I also highly recommend!
The museum provides a glimpse into the past of Sacramento. You can learn about everything from the gold mining to the fire that destroyed the city to everyday life. There are great historical and hands on exhibits.
A little known jewel nestled in the Heart of Old Sacramento. This city run museum is next door to the state run railroad museum. Dont miss it. The staff was very knowledgeable and friendly.
We did the Underground Tour followed and then explored the museum on our own. The tour was phenomenal and we learned a lot about the history of Sacramento while getting to explore actual underground areas. The museum itself, while hot huge, had a lot of neat interactive displays. We recommend to buy tour tickets ahead of time.
Such a fun place to take the kids. Admission was half off during the week.
Nice little museum! It was cool seeing the growth and development of Sacramento. Interesting collection of old books and maps (first book published west of the Rockies, for example), some Native American things from the region, and a handful of miscellaneous stuff pertaining to Sacramentos history and people. Oh, and the wall of the history of food and diet in the area was very interesting too. We did not do a guided tour, though Im sure those are very interesting. Would recommend maybe 1.5 hours for a self-guided tour of the museum; that would be enough time to look at and read most of whats on display.
This museum is a must see place! I went in there to cool down because it was so hot that day and there were advertising that they had a nice AC conditions going on inside. Little did I know, there was an admission fees but I decided to pay for entree and stick to learn a little more about the history of Saccramento. Boy oh boy, did I enjoyed the tour. I even learned about how Bank of America came about and it was really amazing. I also learned mining was a big deal here in Sacramento and they found of lot of Gold. Below is a couple of pictures Ive taken while I was on my self guided tour 😃
I just had my Sons birthday party here and it was a great experience. Very attentive and helpful staff and volunteers. Amazing price for the whole experience and the exhibits are a perfect mix of adult content and kid activities.
It a beautiful small museum with tons of information of sacramento history and great exhibitions!!
Visited January 2020 on Chriatmas holidays.Great place to get more information about Sacramento and it’s foundation
Although some exhibits are outdated this museum is one of the best places to learn about the history of sacramento. I was a little confused with the order of the exhibits but still learned a lot about the founders of the city and the natives who lived before. I recommend going through the entire museum and then walking outside to the waterfront area to imagine what it was like with the first city builders unloading cargo right from off the river on to the land.
A must see! Fascinating history of Sacto and its rich inhabitants.
It has some interesting facts unique to Sacramento.
Samll museum but nice. We also did the Old Sacramento underground tour which was fun.
Had a great tour today! Thank you! Underground is amazing!
The Underground Tour was very imformative!!The museum has some very interesting exhibits!
Great place to learn about Sacramentos history.
Was fun learned a few things even as a born and raised resident I did not know.
Very well presented. Individual headsets make it accessible for all. Guides knowledge was very impressive. Fun day.
Take the underground tour, so much fun!
A small but well put together museum. The displays were interesting and interactive. We did the Underground Tour and would have appreciated more time to walk around and see the displays on the tour. There were several plaques I didnt get to read due to not being given an opportunity to wander around on our own. I would have liked to hear more information on the process of raising the city after the floods.
Wow! Great tours! The history is one to learn and the walking tour is breathtaking! Took about 600 pictures and I still look at them. My co-worker and I took this tour after work hours and were able to visit so many areas of the museum.
Only had a brief time to explore but some cool agricultural and historical info. A small section of old Sac Bee printing equipment and lots of nice displays of local artifacts. Its a great to shop around in Old Town and see the museum as well. Took the Sacramento Underground tour, which is good to do at least once if the history interests you.
The walking tours are so great and include admission to the museum. I had a lot of fun browsing through the documents and exhibits. I learned a lot about my home town and could have didnt another hour continuing the journey, easily.Would highly recommend if youre from Sacramento, enthusiastic about history, or just wanna check out some cool, musty, semi-ancient archaeological sites.I will be revisiting
Nice little museum. Free if you pay the underground tour. Its got some really good history of California. Worth a check. She with the tour.
We didnt go into the museum but did the underground tour. The woman that conducted the tour was great and I love that they gave everyone a set of headphones so we could all easily hear the guide. My only complaint is that there wasnt really time to look around at the pictures and stuff underground as we were running out of time and had another tour behind us
Last minute decision to visit the museum so unfortunately missed out on the underground tour. However this museum is very interesting and gave us a really good background history to such a beautiful place. We spent about 2 hours wandering the museum. Lots to see and read about. The short video is worth watching. The museum has a small gift shop also. Entrance price $8 for adults.
What a gem! A fun place to take the kids, teens, or visitors from out of town. I work for a Senior care facility and we visited the museum for one of our outings. Our residents had a great time. We ate lunch outside on the benches near the building and the walkway wasnt difficult to traverse. Well return in the near future.
After visiting the rail museum we debated as to whether we should pay to see this further relatively small museum close by. Im really glad we decided to do it. The gold rush history and the development of Sacramento is very interesting to read. However the highlight for us was the emotional section dedicated to May Woolsey, a child who died before teenage years and whose parents sealed 600 items of her possessions in a trunk which was only discovered 100 years later. Very moving and worth the entrance fee alone.
Great museum in a fun party of Sacramento. It has a great layout and really polite helpful staff. I do wish they did more tours or larger groups. Great place to check out then hop across the street and get candy or a bite to eat.
This was my first time here and the staff at the front desk suggested a route through the lower and upper floors. Nice variety of exhibits and videos covering Sacramento history. The collection of old Sacramento Bee printing presses, period clothing, stage coach, saddle, tractor, gold sluice and other equipment is impressive. This is a great place to bring a family.
Know your city! Fun tours get you in the know about Sacramento history.
Really a lot of information here in regards to the development of Sacramento and California. While here we also booked an underground tour. Kind of pricey at $18.00 a person. We only went under 2 buildings. Its a one time thing worth doing because if you dont, youll always wonder what its about and what youre missing..
I wanted to take my grandmother to a museum and this was one she was really interested, but she is wheelchair bound and the steep dirt slope leading up to it made it impossible for her to get in by herself, some parts of the museum are only accessible by stairs (though those parts were closed the day we went), and the doors in front of the elevator are heavy and have to be held open. The exhibits themselves were fine and enjoyable.
I deliver printed products there. Some great folks that staff this location that have a passion for Sacramento history. The Underground tours start from this venue, that take a small group of people through the early history of Sacramento. Ive been on one..its awesome!
Just so wonderful. I live for American history and this museum did not disappoint. It has so many artifacts and takes you through the early 20th century in Sacramento and even some gold mining aspects! I recommend this museum highly when you’re visiting Sacramento!
Clean, well laid out and organized. Great visuals and displays, friendly staff. Good value for the ticket price.
Very nice exhibits
This was my first time here and the staff at the front desk suggested a route through the lower and upper floors. Nice variety of exhibits and videos covering Sacramento history.The collection of old Sacramento Bee printing presses, period clothing, stage coach, saddle, tractor, gold sluice and other equipment is impressive. This is a great place to bring a family.
The museum itself is fine and displays I think half a million in gold. The underground tour gets it an extra star by itself. Totally worth it to take the one hour tour and learn about a flood that destroyed much of Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho and prompted Sacramento to move a river and raise buildings by up to twenty feet.
The Delta King is worth the money for the experience, but not as luxurious as you may be expecting. The town is very nice and there are quaint shops to be found, but most are junk and trinkets. If youre a train fan the roundhouse and museum are a must. All in all it was a good visit and Im glad I went. Im also glad I didnt try to fill more than 2 days as that was all I could occupy with the areas offerings.
Do the underground tour, I like this museum you will be able to take some fantastic pictures and get a lot of historical information. Be aware it’s not a large museum but plan like 1 -2 hours and you will have a great time.
Wow, what a hidden gem!! This was an amazing find
Great space for history lovers! They always look for volunteers, so if youre a history fan and look to connect with fellow history fans, this is the perfect place to volunteer your time and energy!Volunteers can lead educational programs and dress up in historical clothing as part of the living history program. Come check it out! :)
Underground sac tour starts here. Tour includes admission to museum. Lifelong sacramento resident, never heard of tour until out of town friends suggested it. Really interesting facts about sac, some archeological excavations on original level of Sacramento. Museum is small but nice; mostly gold rush stuff . Totally worth the $18 ticket price.
Go check out the Wild history of Sacramento. Learn about printing, some of it is a fading art. Dont forget to say Hi to Howard!!
Great exhibit of Californias treasures.
First time there and really enjoyed the under ground tour and walking through the museum
Kind employees, both the tours the offer and the museum itself are interesting and informative. Parking can be difficult depending on the day, unless you can find a parking garage with spaces. If you park on the edge of the road in old town sac, you may have a difficult time backing out of your parking space, due to other drivers heading down the road.
Tip: Your admission ticket is good all day, and the bathroom is clean.Youre welcome.
Super fun tours!! And if youre a sensitive, you can definitely feel the energy underground!!!!
Yum yum yum , just love that comfort food .
We did the tunnels under Sacramento tour.So... Ive lived in Sacramento more than half of my life and never did this until a couple of weeks ago.The tour guide was informed, informative, friendly and in costume.I learned about the craziest flood in the last 150 years thanks turned the Sacramento and San Juaquin vallies into a giant inland sea/lake.I also saw artifacts from the time period, and heard about how California was a bunch of racists against the Chinese (in particular).Then the tunnels... Sadly, this is more of a Grandmas basement experience than a hard hats with head lamps and tunneling gear experience. But..... It makes sense, I mean they built one floor, then raised the buildings (most of them) with floor jacks, and walled it in with bricks. So, the end result is a basement that happens to be connected to other basements... Now you know. Thanks for reading
The sacramento history museum is alright, it wasnt horrible, and was actually pretty fun to check out. The normal museum is good if you have the patience to read everything but there are only a couple of interactive attractions that keep you interested. We went on the tour of the underground sacramento, and while the tour was interesting, we were expecting a ghost tour but all we got was a detailed, and of course interesting, explanation of the underground sacramento.
Very poor museum, almost a kiosk in the capital of the state. Not worth the money you pay for it. It could have displayed more historical details, the rich Mexican past, the native tribes of California and more. They missed the point.
A small museum in Old Sacremento provides a trip through time that explains the beginning of the state capital. The gold rush days and importance of river travel are emphasized. A short video is a good way to put the information in perspective. One hour will do it, 2 hours for the history buff!
Great history museum that provides a wonderful location for scholars to study. Located right near the River and Historic Sacramento, as well as the Railroad museum. Very neat interactive displays to allow kids to see what it was like to pan for gold located out front.
Such an awesome little area with so much to see and do. Great museums and cool shops and places to have a bite to eat all wrapped up in history. Its like stepping back in time but modern as well.
Lovely museum; well organized and enriching exhibits.
We took the underground Sacramento tour. If youre expecting a trek through tunnels and catacombs this is not it. If you are expecting to be brought to two basements with a dirt floor, you will be very pleased with this tour. Half of the tour isnt underground. The most exciting part was the mention of a rumored rat-human hybrid that lives under Sacramento. These rumors were immediately dismissed and our hopes of an enjoyable experience were crushed. There was little to no architectural remains of the underground part of Sacramento. The tour guide failed to give new information that wasnt already presented in the museum. :(
It was interesting seeing all the pictures and listening to the historical events that happened but the staff was very rude. I wanted to see more of the museum it look very well put together. We were all rushed out so fast the kids barely had time to look at everything. When the kids did the panning for gold there was an older woman and man who were very mean towards the kids rushing them to hurry. There was a rude woman who stood at the door and said we had to wait to go into the gift shop which was fine I understood it was full but when the kids raised their hands she yelled put your hands down and go wait. She was even saying how she had to constantly watch the door and kept complaining about it due to all the other people coming in as well. The staff barely knew how to add up all the items in the gift shop on the computer and dont offer receipts while they made several mistakes. This was supposed to be an educational fun event for the kids and they did the complete opposite. Its sad because it looks like a cool place for kids to learn about history but with staff like that makes you want to learn history online.
Cool to understand Sacramento and its history better but the gold stuff everywhere is pretty gimmicky. Probably could have just done with the underground tour and a documentary. Check out the railroad museum if youre only going to visit one museum
Great place, good exhibits. Not too big. Only need about an hour to get through it. The staff is friendly. They have a military discount.
It was very interesting, and educational and nice experience to see.
Amazing guide; charming and entertaining
Spent a couple hours here with my family. Very enjoyable. Interesting exhibits within a good floor plan. I especially enjoyed the canning display, well curated and very informative.
Its OK. . Smaller than I expected.
Is a good place to look in the pass👍
I went to the Underground After Hours Tour here yesterday and all I have to say about it is DONT DO IT! Its a waste of time and money. Let me give you a couple of reasons as to why that is. The description they gave of this tour sounded awesome online! They described it as a spooky paranormal experience where we would encounter ghosts as we traveled through tunnels or walkways underground. The sad reality is that we walked above ground from destination to destination as our tour guide gave us a history lesson of random people and facts that I had zero interest in. And these so called underground destinations where basements of old buildings where they had exhibits of bottles, chairs, pots, cans and etc... The so called paranormal experience they claimed to have, sadly consisted of us looking at a building from the street as the tour guide talked about the ghost the that apparently existed there. The worse part was I took my lady here thinking that this was gonna be a fun date! I was bored to tears and sadly my date was too. Dont make the same mistake as I did... ( Btw this tour does not even deserve the one star review I am giving it, but it is required in order for me to make this post.)
Pretty interesting place.
Fun time with the kids as an alternative to the Railroad Museum. Accepts North American Reciprocal Memberships as well. So your California Museum membership worked here. Very clean and well curated.
Tucked away in the basement on Front St at Old Town Sacramento, this is the one place you can sing until your friends ear drum burst in the privacy of your own room; or, you can hang out on the dance floor near the bar at the front and listen to live DJ. Whatever turns your boat.The rate for the private Karaoke room was reasonable. The room was clean and well kept. The selection of the songs was good but the Karaoke machine interface was a bit complex. Nonetheless, once we figured it out, it was American Idol time..uh, the try-outs portion.
I love Old Sacramento because I feel like Im travelling back in time and as a re-enactor myself, I get to wear the kind of dresses that as a child I would have felt like a princess in! Not to mention, the fellow living history members are wonderful to volunteer with.
I really liked the different gold exhibits. Uptick $500k work of gold in that museum. They beautiful Native American bead work in one exhibit.
A must stop if you love learning!The museum is beautiful and all the exhibits were well thought out.The tours are really fun and is truly such a great experience.
Awesome! Really, really enjoyed the horse carriage ride and our driver Jessica. The ride to the Capitol was worth every dime. Looking forward to doing it again next year!
The museum well documents the history of the city from its beginnings as a gold town and the lives of those who lived at that time. The story of the indigenous people of the area was very sad as it is everywhere in this country. The town has tunnels under the town which you can visit during tourist season.
Its a fun place to visit. Hands on activities friendly staff. Love the historical venue that child can understand. An awesome place to take your family and friends.
Didnt do the tour but walking around by ourselves it was a fairly short museum. Though it was worth the trip!Handicap accessible.
When they say underground tours I thought it was going to be some tunnels in Old Town Sacramento so dont be confused its only two buildings that have been raised up 15 ft in the air Whoopi
Great history there, we just didnt have enough time to see everything, so I cant give 5 stars. I love the gold panning they offered our kids.
Great exhibits. Friendly staff. Not too crowded.
Very nice had a great time looking at the history of sacramento and other parts of the valley.
The underground tour was disappointing, and rushed. There is not much underground at all! There was not enough time to look at artifacts in the last building. Cut out some b.s. and give more time in there!
I enjoyed a haunted tour here around Halloween. The quality varied between actors and skits but it was a fun experience.
You can never stop learning that place is very fun to be in you learn a lot of stuff in there you get to see a lot of great stuff to hang out in
Great local history. Children enjoyed underground tour. Kids loved the hands on art stations.
Sad all the museum are closed but the museum stores are open, nice old town Sacramento, I loved the candy store and hollowing store!!
Nice , but small for what we paid . I wish it was bigger 20 minutes and done, we went through it twice to make sure we didnt miss anything. Not really worth the time
Very nicely done and the presentation represents all groups who contributed to the building of the city. Bless the person who thought to put back the trees!
Excellent museum! Great source of knowledge of Sacramento in the early days.
It was nice. Took us about 45 minutes to see everything. They charge 8 dollars but if you have AAA they charge 7.
This museum is very informative about Sacramento. It has a few things to keep kids occupied and many things to read, and view.
Love history and herstory!
Great museum with tons of historic information.
Definitely cute way to take you back to the good old days but souvenirs shops are super expensive! Good way to kill time and gain some knowledge haha
Honestly not much to it. The underground tour was pretty disappointing. Just a couple of rooms. The history itself is interesting however
I love history that tells you that people who were looking for gold and silver they were all coming to calforaia some people were killed over the gold plus the miners were looking for gold and silver to get money out of gold they were going a itAs now possible to get gold is that look for pile of rocks that are in the rever and u can get great peceis of gold
Great museum! Excellent displays and info, self guided, no time limits to view!!
Its a great place to learn about the history of Sacramento. I enjoy taking family from out of town to see what it was like in the past.
Learned a lot of CA history here.
I LOVE OLD SACRAMENTO ♡ ESPECIALLY GOLD RUSH DAYS! IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME, IF YOU LOVE THE FANTASY OF GOLD MINORS, COWBOYS, AND INDIANS, Then this is the place you want to be!
Very informative and I enjoyed the interactive exhibits!
One of the best historic old towns Ive ever seen. Lots of shops, restaurants, candy/ice cream stores. I highly recommend checking this place out!
Did the underground tour it was an hour and a lot of information about the city and the history well worth it and a great museum
Interesting museum but the flow of the inside was a little confusing and not seamless. The guided tours fill up fast and early.
Surprisingly enjoyable. Great gold display. Wish there was a discount when also visit the rr museum
This was a great your. Sap was our guide and he was great. Very interesting to look at and listen.
Great place! I enjoyed my time here, the staff are a bit anti-social though.
I like history. I did the underground tour. I thought it was interesting and informative. It definitely is not for everyone.
What a wonderful place to learn about our history! Spend at least a day or two in Old Town Sacramento youll love it.
The underground tour is great. I learned things about not only Sacramento but California, that I had never known before.
Great place to visit. Never knew Sacramento flooded so much early on
It was very interesting, well worth the 18.00. Our tour guide was very informed and made the tour interesting
Wonderful! Bring your kids along!Highly recommend
Wish I had more time to look atounf. Took the underground tour with Mr. B.F.Hastings. Very informative, enjoyable.
Great place to go for a slow day with the family. It has a little something for everyone; history, historical buildings, food, candy and more.
I did like all the pictures showing history of how Sacramento got to this point
Good displays in the building but you need to do the tour for the full effect
Awesome museum! Plan an entire day to thoroughly view everything.
A lot better than I would have thought. Informative. Would have been nicer with some more hands on exhibits.
A nerdists paradise. Took the underground tour and it was pretty fun. Old Sac is a neat place to spend an afternoon
Great place to see what Sacramento was built on literally and figuratively! Beautiful tour
Love visiting old sacramento. Very knowledgeable people. Great place to learn about Sacramentos history.
Very nice, kid friendly 😊
An enjoyable local museum staffed by friendly folks. Free entry for military.
Daytime underground tour was interesting but not as extensive as I would have preferred.
A great place to learn about Sacramentos varied, interesting, dangerous, and exciting past and her people.
Love old sac! Lots of fun bars and food places, and its blowing up lately thanks to Pokemon go
Sign up for the underground tours! Really cool to see part of the past many dont know!
Great info on old Sacramento. A lot of history. Underground tour was super.
Takes about 45 min to an hour to go through. Good historical education on the gold rush and california
Big gold nuggets....the real stuff! Nice professional museum. Great. Staff real nice!
Love coming down and visiting Old Sacramento. Love all the history, old trains, & unique shops.
It was a wonderful experience and will hafley do it again
Took the underground tunnel tour. Very informative with an entertaining story.
Excellent museum, a must see
Great information. Loved learning what my hometown looked like when they put in the freeways!
Great Native American Exhibit!
A great collection of local Sacramento history. Well worth the $8 admission
Small but enjoyable. $8 each adult FYI.
Fabulous place to visit. Great tours and tour guides.
Really worth a visit. The whole Old Town area is great.
Just a nice building. Shame it was closed at the weekend
Quite interesting. Did the guided tour and that was fun too.
Food was okay, they have a train museum thats great for kids.
Very disappointing. A few main highlights but not with the money. We left after 30 minutes.
Wonderful place. I always enjoy spending time here.
Nice history museum of Sacramento. Reasonably priced admission
Excellent museum. The underground tour was amazing.
Fun place to start with learning how the gold rush helped form our great state.
Convenient loation next to train museum. Has interesting artifacts and photos.
Gold fever tour was interesting and fun good for kids
Nice place, staff a bit rude and rushed us out. Typical gov workers.
I absolutely love this place. Its so much fun.
Small museum in the middle of old town. Admission is cheap.
Had a nice family day at the museum.
Mixture of gold mining history and other cultural and climate events during period.
Beautiful place in Sacramento... It was like back to the future during few hours.
Lots of stuff to do and see. Really gets into the history of the railroad.
The tour was great and the guide was amazing
Friendly people and a true hidden gem in Sacramento!
Lovely
Great historical data saved in this museum!
Very interesting
Its good if you like trains and cowboys environment.
This is an amazing place where you find all the cultures at a single place.
A great place to learn about Sacramento history
Loved the underground tour that they put on.
Covers many facets of local and state history, including first nations.
The preservation of the Old Town of Sacramento has been very well kept.
Tons of things to do. Restaurants, Bars, candy stores, and unique stores all in one place.
Great place to take your family, the history of Sacramento...
Underground Tour was fun and informational. Worth it!
Very nicely layed out. Nice displays.
Fun and interesting place to visit
Started loving history as I got older. Recommend.
Nice museum with a lot of Sacramento history!
Cool old time feel . Used to visit when I was a kid.
Fun and interesting lots of cool stuff to see
Fascinating and well-presented museum
Well-preserved historical places. Great old world feel.
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Review №1
2022-01-21Booked the underground tour through here which also includes museum admission. Headsets through the tour made it easier to hear the guide wherever you were standing. Guide was thorough and informative. Appreciated the museums inclusion of native Americans and the exhibits. The gold mining section was well designed. Staff was friendly. Small gift ship with old time games and a variety of souvenirs. Worth stopping in
Review №2
2022-03-27Small museum packed full of interesting pictures and artifacts: from the Indians to the gold rush to a 1920s home kitchen. Awesome experience, got to speak with Doc Logan, a doc with replica medical tools and knowledge and a table near the entrance to learn about early 1800s medicine. Overall a very interesting museum, worth the admission and should take about 1.5 hrs if you read all the plaques. Worth a revisit if nothing but for books at the museum shop!
Review №3
2021-07-21We came here for our second time to do the Choose Your Own Gold Rush Tour which was very fun. We got here as the tour was starting due to heavy traffic so we missed being able to walk around the museum on our own. The museum staff were kind enough to honor our tickets the next day. We did gold panning while on the tour and the day after we checked out the gift shop. They had made a small exhibit change since we had last been here which is to be expected with a museum. We had a great time and enjoyed seeing the wall of things people collect.
Review №4
2022-06-27This place was super fun and the underground tour was fun and very informative. Learned alot about Sacramento and Northern California. Would definitely go back!
Review №5
2021-11-11A bit pricey at 10 bucks to get in , however, you can leave and come back sane day. Lots to read! Expect to stay a minimum of 1.5 to read thoroughly through everything. Plenty of speaking boxes to listen to the history. Amazing place and very well designed floor plan.
Review №6
2021-04-11Arrived at location and seen individuals standing outside in old attire conversing amoung each other. Entered establishment and received great excellent customer service. Museum holds old artifacts, showing how food was traded , sold etc among the first settlers, what people traveled with in those days and how people came to California in the hopes of finding gold. While this Museum was informative and intriguing, it ends quickly due to it being a small Museum. I was able to go throughout the whole area and photograph everything within an hour.
Review №7
2021-09-14Great museum showcasing the history of California and Sacramento. Admission is 50% off the regular $10 Monday - Thursday. Many interactive displays. There is also a collection of books and manuscripts dating from as early as the 16th century.
Review №8
2022-06-25I CANT BELIEVE IM HERE. I traveled so far to see this place, and it was a delight. Ive followed these kind folk on You Tube and Tiktok for a couple months, and every single video is full of information, wit, and gentle humor. I got to meet Alex in real life and another delightful human (I cant remember her name! 😶) and although I didnt meet Howard, I took my picture next to Flat Howard and bought a bunch of stuff. I think a new wing should be built on the museum for an expanded print shop. The whole museum was wonderful, too! I cant wait to come back 💕
Review №9
2022-05-19Great museum about the history of california.Entry ticket is around 10-12usd
Review №10
2021-10-14Wife wanted to see Howard, got to see his cut out. Really nice and informative information on our area. Really liked the old maps of the area and all the displays.The staff was courtesies and dressed to like the old days. Will go again in the future.