I love the vibrant mural scene that Sacramento has to offer. They are all within walking distance…read moreof each other. Here is the list of murals that I recommend transform Sacramento Street into beautiful art exploration. Mural locations: 1. Theme: Deep dream. Location: 914 24th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Vyal One (real name: Jaime Reyes). Style: mystical eyes, psychedelic colors and bubble-like shapes. 2. Title: Introspection. Location: at the corner of 18th and L street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Lin Fei Fei. Style: quiet, meditative portrait theme. 3. Title: Johnny Cash. Location: Residence Inn by Marriott, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Shepard Fairey. This is 15-story mural, depicts Johnny Cash, based on photography. The mural is to commemorates the 50th anniversary of the "At Folsom Prison" album. 4. Title: Yellow Bird. Location: 1401 15th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Jaya King. Style: vibrant birds. 5. Title: Sacred Geometry: Cosmic Decagon. Location: 1331 O St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Jose Di Gregorio. Style: Vibrant gradiente colors and geometric patterns. 6. Title: Crouching Man. Location: 1510 14th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Shaun Burner. Style: larger-than-life figure. 7. Title: A seat at the Table. Location: 1914 19th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Shonna McDaniels. Style: South Africa culture. 8. Title: Allison Davila. Location: 2030 N St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Jose DiGregorio. Mural significant meaning: a memorial mural honoring Allison Davila who tragically lost her life to a drunk driver on her 23rd birthday. Style: Vibrant gradiente colors 9. Title: The American Natives Mural. Location: corner of Liestal Aly and 22nd St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Matt Adnate (Australian artist). Style: realistic portrait of indigenous people, for this specific mural: it depicts a Tibetan refugee, originally he photographed in India. 10. Location: 204 23rd St., Sacramento, CA. This is a massive mural of Mr. T. Artist: Maren Conrad. Style: interactive, it has REAL metal chains to touch. 11. Location: corner of 20th and E Street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Ellie Gainey. Style: vibrant birds in flight with flowers. 12. Location: 2200 Front St., Sacramento, CA (exterior of California Automotive Museum). Artist: Bruce Gossett. 80 foot long artwork for custom car history, featuring legendary automotive trailblazers: Harry Westergard, Dick Bertolucci, George and Sam Barris, and Don Tognotti. Style: vibrant classic cars with contrast backdrop. 13. Title: The Wishing Wall. Location: Historic Alley near 19th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Maren Conrad. Style: large, detailed dandelion puff art with dark background. 14. Location: I street, Sacramento, CA, across the street from the California Governor's Mansion. The mural depicts of former California governors: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jerry Brown. 15. Title: Summer Bears. Location: intersection of 16th St. and I Street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Jenn Ponci. It depicts a mother bear and her cub in a field of poppies with palm trees, honeybees and a deep red sunset. 16. Title: Lady Bird. Location: 16th St, between J and I street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Maren Conrad. 17. Graffiti alley: an alley full of urban art on a brick wall building. For example: title: Prada. Local artist: Puek. Location: Improv Alley, Sacramento, CA. 18. Location: 5385 Franklin Blvd, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Miles Silva. Style: vibrant street art culture. Uniquely, this mural is using a paper stencil style. 19. Location: 1616 J Street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Brandon Gastinell. Style : iconic crown motif, including scrawled text, symbols. This mural is featuring: Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo and Jean-Michel Basquiat. 20. Location: 24th and K Street, Sacramento, CA. Artist: Mars-1 (real name: Mario Martinez). Style: dreamlike, cosmic, geometric patterns, and ethereal forms. 21. Title: Prosperity Through Perseverance. Location: 1050 20th St., Sacramento, CA. Artist: Maren Conrad. Koi on the Yangtze River, pays homage to the Chinese immigrants that creating transcontinental railroad. This is the website where you can find more murals locations, although it doesn't seem updated frequently: Wide Open Walls

When the art community got together and brought concept to reality in taking the city's blank walls…read moreand transforming them to public art for all ... Wide Open Walls Sacramento was born in 2018. It's always a pleasant surprise to be going about town and seeing masterpieces of art. It brightens up my day. Fun, colorful, and contemporary art. Free for all to enjoy. Brilliant! I don't know how they got organized with an annual festival and an official Board of Directors, but so glad they did. New artists are added annually. Website: wideopenwalls.com. On the website, you can filter by artist or neighborhood to view a virtual map of the murals . The 2020 festival is slated for September. The artwork are scattered about town (downtown/midtown, East Sacramento, Del Paso Heights, Arden, Curtis Park, Oak Park, CSU Sacramento). Each WOW mural has a plaque with the artist name, piece, and a smartphone scan box from which you can electronically download more info. A lot of these murals are accessible in downtown and midtown and are very Instagram worthy. So it would be a fun weekend activity to rent a Jump Bike or Scooter and explore the art and city. #wideopenwallssacramento #publicartmuralssacramento

This is an amusing sculpture along the River Walk Trail, the art piece in the shape of trees almost…read morecamouflaged in its surroundings. The steel tiles appear as leaves in the design, reflecting plantlife and the flow of the water, with its proximity to the river, and allow it to blend in with the scenery with its mirror-like finish, while at the same time continuously changing, as the artist, Federico Diaz, intended. If visiting the River Walk Park, it's worth taking notice of this simple yet beautiful artwork.

Amazing garden, well taken care of, lots of seating and views to fill time and ample street parking.read more

The WPA Rock Garden is exquisitely landscaped with a variety of drought tolerant plants. At one…read moretime this place was filled with ivy and weeds with random little walking pass cut through everywhere. Now the WPA Rock Garden is a lush home for a variety of California natives, succulents, and drought tolerant plants. The design of this green space pairs Sylvia with Russian sage, tall bright dahlias, black eyed Susan and Shasta daisy's, cone flower, lantana, dusty Miller, and soft silvery fuzzy lambs ear. The walking paths are edged with low growing ramblers, and various unique succulents peek through strewn Lodi brown River rock. This is a place to walk-through and appreciate some of California nature's beautiful colors, peaceful foliage and texture. This space provides a pleasing level of texture and interest to the minds eye. Meditate your way, walk through this rock garden breathe deeply and enjoy the pure O2 as it will lift your spirits. Thank you WPA volunteers for maintaining this beautiful space. Endnote: the WPA Rock garden is located in William Land Park across the street from the Zoo. If you park north of the zoo, you can walk across the street at the crosswalk at the light...it's at the top of the amphitheater parking lot.

Overview: a beautifully curated and cared for museum, great place to spend multiple hours at!…read more ---- I was going to a concert in Wheatland and decided to kill some time on my drive up there, I found this place on maps and decided to check it out. I spent 3 hours exploring the museum and it has a great variety of arts! The museum is quite sizable with 3 floors as well as a cafe and a little shop on the first floor. They recommend starting on the third floor and working your way down. They have maps available at the front desk and maps at the stairwells to help you navigate through the different rooms and floors. Through the museum they have benches to sit and observe at the works, it's perfect if you want to sketch some of them too! Admission is $15 and they have discounted tickets for students, military, and seniors for $10, for ages 6-17 tickets are $8, and children under 5 are free. It's a great place to spend an afternoon or if you're looking for something to do in Sacramento. They open Wednesday through Sunday 10AM to 5PM and they're open late on Thursdays til 9PM! There is a small paid parking lot $1.50 per hour, with 4 hours max; street parking is more expensive. ---- Overall: I had a fantastic time walking around and sketching, a great time all around

Entrance from Teel Family Pavilion…read more $1.5/hr street parking. $.35/hour street parking on Sundays only. Parking Ticket is $75. There is also a paratransit bus services that you can consider. They have Docent tour every hour to guide guests around highlighted areas of museum. The original museum (first picture of the building behind the windows) linked to Crockers family residential previously which is an Italian Victorian building. The family bought arts around the world to fill up their museum collection. The current Crocker museum is the new museum, it linked together with the old museum. There is a superstitious belief which making the Crocker museum flooring is not even at some areas, as they believe it will competing with the other power if they make it all even. April 2026 exhibition visit: ***Third floor: royal chicano air force art and activism: full of screenprinting posters. It has modern art from Davis university artists, donated landscape paintings (six centuries of painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico)), Asian wing. *Screenprinting history room. These 4 gentlemen's on the picture was doing security for the Safeway demo event. The jeep was donated, they just were done the beer run and stuck into womens' parade. *Jose Montoya, the artist of Pachuco screenprinting is graduated from Sac state university. Pachuco is a screenprinting from Mexico which Jose visited to learn the techniques. Rifa por vida: FOR LIFE! *It has Ofrenda corner which is honoring deceased loved one. *Flaming June (the lady in orange dress with the ocean behind her with sunlight with the brown drapes surrounding her chair): oil on canvas. Very beautiful. Check it out before these 3-month exhibition is over- until June 2026!! *Ruben: one of the three wise men. *Sunday morning in the mines: this is two painting become one. One side is people reading bible and relaxing, while the other side is people partying. ***Second floor: *ceramics: Raven Halfmoon ceramics (Okla Homma Ohoyo). *feminism (Dutch German): Frida painting. Frida had back injury from bus accident which made her suffering for the rest of her life. Frida was really into mirrors. This museum might need 3-4 hours minimum to visit to really enjoy every rooms and exhibitions.

This is the third class I have taken with Eli. I feel so lucky to have discovered his classes. I…read morelove his teaching style and I always really enjoy everyone I meet in his classes. Eli is so skilled at creating instant community in his classes. He creates a safe space for us all to be vulnerable with one another. And in some ways - singing and performing in front of others is super scary and requires you to be super vulnerable in order to connect with your performance piece. The creation of this community from the first class allows all of us to immediately feel comfortable with one another so that we can get to work and support each other every step of the way leading up to our concert.

I took the Fundamentals of Singing class in 2018 and years later still remember it fondly as one of…read morethe most uplifting activities I've done as an adult. I was nervous and out of my comfort zone -- not having sung since middle school (!) -- but Eli created a fun learning environment so I could set my insecurities aside and jump in. His class gave me so much joy, I'd go home glowing. Take his class!

I feel like the cripple in the Bible who couldn't get to the pool in time after the angel stirred…read morethe water! NO DECENT PARKING FOR SENIORS WHO DRIVE!!! Oh, lots of activities but who pushed to recharge vehicles? That whole outside wall of the library is reserved for the upper crust -- the upscale and fortunate!!!! And who put library short-term parking where I could walk from? Probably the able-bodied employees are grabbing the absurdly limited spots. This damned town needs a lot more compassion, but it seems nobody gives a fig! I will not plead for a handicap rating! I am over 80 and a veteran. I used to love the knitting group. . . .

Clean, great activities for seniors and families. Black Box and Art Gallery have wonderful shows.read more

Very romantic place - I loved visiting here with my pig pig - perfect for a hot date night…read more Old Sacramento is good fun - it is different from the typical McDonald's, Walmart, Costco cities that are carbon copied now everywhere with cookie clone houses. Old trees, charm, all the houses nearby are different - my Grandma - a fairly well off city girl from Europe approved - and I can see why. Coming to the USA with nothing but two suitcases and 3 kids she quickly worked her way up to the Land Park neighborhood. A stunning house with 4 car garage, metal roof and pool. She loved old Sacramento and looked down on village or town or junky places. She too good for that. Piggy was too good for that. The romantic river once had the pirate boat shows - pig pig loved them. The old bridge - I love driving over that. Come here stretch your legs - now is the perfect time before it heats up for the summer.

Visited December 17th and 18th…read more There is so much to see and do at the old waterfront in Sacramento! You have museums...trains..boat cruises..all in walking distance to this wholesome place! They have 5 star restaurants such as Vs Paradise and The Firehouse plus more casual places like Joe's Crab Shack. It is kiddo friendly with old time candy shops as well! If you want to slow down the pace and relax come here! I stay at the Delta King when visiting and walk around at night feeling totally safe ( well lit ). Enjoy the 60 foot Christmas tree and the Polar Express Train rides!

We've visited multiple times now and love being able to see the art on display…read more If you're looking for Sacramento art, this is the spot. They have so many cool options that capture the heart of Sacramento and some of it's landmarks. On top of the Sacramento art there is a good selection of subjects, genres, mediums and sizes. A great place to find a little something or a statement piece. The prices vary from piece to piece so keep that in mind if you have a certain budget. There's nothing like falling in love with art and finding out it's perfect for someone, just not you right now. But you can still enjoy it at the gallery! I love the love they show to local artists. You can follow their social media for special events and showings, and there's always a good enery here.

What a fun gallery. We stopped by during our lunch walk around town. We loved all of the fun…read morepaintings and sculptures. I loved their dessert sculptures of cakes and ice creams. It appeared that they just had a show and were sending out all the confections in pink boxes. I was surprised to see a nice original Conte by Fred Dalkey. He used to teach at Sac State. I've met him before. He's quite and didn't put on any airs. He was drawing and just wanted to blend in. If you're in the area and love art, you should stop by. Looks are deceiving, it's much bigger than it appears from the outside and is full of mostly paintings.

We toured the mansion, which is now owned by the state of California and is a state park. It has…read morefree admission and a docent guided tour. Our tour took approximately one hour. The mansion was wonderful and the docent was very knowledgeable. I thought it was well worth the time. I learned a lot about the Stanford family. It was the best free tour I've ever been on!

I hope you won't be greeted by this woman named Robin, she is beyond rude, we went with a group for…read moreour school and the way she presents herself with the major attitude it almost feels like she owns the place, I have no idea how people like this who has gotten major complains are still working here with such attitude, there has to be a way to report to state about her behavior, if you check all the 1 or 2 stars, it's all about this woman. I am surprised after all these years she still has this job. You can file a complaint against her here if you run into into the same issues, as what I can tell, all 1 star and 2 stars are all about this lady having attitude with the visitors. https://www.parks.ca.gov/Commend-or-Complain