Sad all the museum are closed but the museum stores are open, nice old town Sacramento, I loved the candy store and hollowing store!!

Visited January 2020 on Chriatmas holidays.Great place to get more information about Sacramento and it’s foundation

Great place! I enjoyed my time here, the staff are a bit anti-social though.

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.

Great place to visit. Never knew Sacramento flooded so much early on

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.

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.

A great place to learn about Sacramento history

A must see! Fascinating history of Sacto and its rich inhabitants.

Amazing guide; charming and entertaining

My favorite spot in downtown sac

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.

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!

Samll museum but nice. We also did the Old Sacramento underground tour which was fun.

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.

Know your city! Fun tours get you in the know about Sacramento history.

Had a great tour today! Thank you! Underground is amazing!

Informative and entertaining.

This was a great your. Sap was our guide and he was great. Very interesting to look at and listen.

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.

It a beautiful small museum with tons of information of sacramento history and great exhibitions!!

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..

Lovely museum; well organized and enriching exhibits.

The Underground Tour was very imformative!!The museum has some very interesting exhibits!

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

Great place to see what Sacramento was built on literally and figuratively! Beautiful tour

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.

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.

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

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!

Great museum! Excellent displays and info, self guided, no time limits to view!!

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.

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.

Honestly not much to it. The underground tour was pretty disappointing. Just a couple of rooms. The history itself is interesting however

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!

Great local history. Children enjoyed underground tour. Kids loved the hands on art stations.

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.

The museum has so much in itself.It is one of the best places for family outings as well as to take kids along. The place in itself is a knowledge hub and the various exhibits depict a lot about the history.Great place for everyone.

Wonderful place. I always enjoy spending time here.

Didnt do the tour but walking around by ourselves it was a fairly short museum. Though it was worth the trip!Handicap accessible.

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.

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.

Great Native American Exhibit!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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! :)

It was nice. Took us about 45 minutes to see everything. They charge 8 dollars but if you have AAA they charge 7.

I really liked the different gold exhibits. Uptick $500k work of gold in that museum. They beautiful Native American bead work in one exhibit.

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.

This is an amazing place where you find all the cultures at a single place.This a huge diversity place.This is a great to know about different story, as well as different cultures from all over the world.

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!

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.

Good displays in the building but you need to do the tour for the full effect

Loved the underground tour that they put on.

It was very interesting, well worth the 18.00. Our tour guide was very informed and made the tour interesting

Easy to find, next door to the Rail Museum this Museum is a lot bigger than it looks from the outside, there is so much here any history buff could spend a couple of hours or more . I learned a lot about California a good place to bring children over 10 . If you are visiting in the summer this is a perfect mid afternoon destination as it has AC.

This museum is very informative about Sacramento. It has a few things to keep kids occupied and many things to read, and view.

I enjoyed a haunted tour here around Halloween. The quality varied between actors and skits but it was a fun experience.

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!

I like history. I did the underground tour. I thought it was interesting and informative. It definitely is not for everyone.

Awesome museum! Plan an entire day to thoroughly view everything.

Great historical data saved in this museum!

What a wonderful place to learn about our history! Spend at least a day or two in Old Town Sacramento youll love it.

Wish I had more time to look atounf. Took the underground tour with Mr. B.F.Hastings. Very informative, enjoyable.

Love history and herstory!

The tour was great and the guide was amazing

Okey but a bit smaller than i thought.

Very nicely layed out. Nice displays.

Underground Tour was fun and informational. Worth it!

Fabulous place to visit. Great tours and tour guides.

This is an amazing place where you find all the cultures at a single place.

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

Started loving history as I got older. Recommend.

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.

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.

Fun place to start with learning how the gold rush helped form our great state.

Small but enjoyable. $8 each adult FYI.

Covers many facets of local and state history, including first nations.

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.

Took the underground tunnel tour. Very informative with an entertaining story.

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.

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.

The underground tour is amazing

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

The way we were treated.

Fascinating and well-presented museum

A lot better than I would have thought. Informative. Would have been nicer with some more hands on exhibits.

An enjoyable local museum staffed by friendly folks. Free entry for military.

Mixture of gold mining history and other cultural and climate events during period.

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.

Always a great place to visot

Sign up for the underground tours! Really cool to see part of the past many dont know!

A great place to learn about Sacramentos varied, interesting, dangerous, and exciting past and her people.

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.