State Indian Museum

Wonderful for tourists and educating those not knowing. Unfortunately, not very good nor welcoming customer service by Maria. Other than that, not bad of a stop. I'd recommend coming by and learning.

I highly recommend checking out this museum, it's located right next to Sutter's Fort and has a great gift shop as well. It's only $5 to enter and has a lot of information and collections. It specifically covers Native American tribes that lived in what is now known as northern California.

Admission of $5 for adult, $3 for kid. It is a small room with artifacts. Lots of readings necessary. No photography inside the museum allowed. They have a 10 items identification activity where you can win a price when you submit your completed form. Metered street parking. Staffs are accommodating. We enjoyed the whole experience.

Michael one of the docents was fantastic. He taught us so much. We felt bad we had to run out for the parking meter. Definitely go! I will be back. Both him and the gal at the counter were very nice.

The State Indian Museum is really modest. (For now), it is in a smaller building adjacent to Sutter's Fort State Historic Park. Entry is $5 for adults, $3 for those aged 6 to 17; children enter for free. Metered automobile parking is available on 26th and K Streets.This museum presents a lot of information on the many native peoples that populated what is now California. The artifacts that are on display are sufficient to help tell the story--but number of items available isn't "robust".This raises a really interesting question:In 2018, Gov. Jerry Brown allocated state funding for the construction of the (new) California Indian Heritage Center in West Sacramento, which will replace the (this) existing State Indian Museum. Completion of the new museum is estimated to be 2032.It will be interesting to see what exhibits and programing the future facility might have. Does the State have a lot of artifacts in storage being readied for display? Are individual tribes or private collectors going to loan artifacts for viewing? I also wonder if the new museum will be "looking back" or "looking forward".Nevertheless, if you are visiting Sutter's Fort--in its current iteration, this museum is worth a viewing.

Great selection of artifacts and tons of great information. Everything from women's lives to colonization to trade goods and daily life. There is a scavenger hunt kids can do, too.

It's a small museum but worth checking out. They're open now and admission is $5. They have a map of where tribes used to be located in the USA before...well let's be real here, European settlers took over their nation. They have a small store with books, Native American jewelry, and other tourists trinkets. The museum might be small but it packs a lot of history in that small space.Check it out if you're ever in that area. Parking shouldn't be an issue since there are street and metered parking all around that area.

Lots of nice artifacts and information. A bit small but a good area to learn about our history.

Learn all about the New Mexico tribes and get some sobering history on the not-so-great stuff that went down. It's a small but good museum. They have an attached restaurant that serves native food - I liked the fry bread and Chile.

Quaint museum. $5 per adult entrance fee. A lot of the artifacts weren't in the display case for "preservation purposes." Which should be disclosed to patrons prior to paying the fee. Nonetheless, there were still quite a few artifact to see, even touch. They have a nice sized gift shop (arrowheads, rabbit fur, postcards, coffee mugs, etc). They have signs posted everywhere inside asking patrons to NOT take pictures. The museum is on the same property as Sutter's Fort, which means the walking area to and from the museum and fort is dirt- when it rains it's mud and puddle's.