{"id":200977,"date":"2026-03-02T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:56:24","slug":"20-sacramento-area-museums-to-offer-free-admission-during-free-museum-weekend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/200977\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Sacramento-area museums to offer free admission during free museum weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty museums across the Sacramento region are set to open their doors for free during the 2026 Free Museum Weekend<\/a>, taking place March 7\u20138.<\/p>\n

Organized by Sacramento Area Museums (SAM), the annual event offers community members free admission to participating museums with advance registration.<\/p>\n

Free tickets will be released on March 2 and are available on a first-come, first-served basis through March 5 at 5 p.m., or until all tickets are claimed.<\/p>\n

This year marks the 28th consecutive Free Museum Weekend<\/a>. Organizers say more than 30,000 tickets will be available across all participating locations, though availability may vary by museum and by day.<\/p>\n

Participating museums include:<\/p>\n

Aerospace Museum of California<\/p>\n

California Automobile Museum<\/p>\n

California State Railroad Museum<\/p>\n

Capitol Park at California State Capitol Museum<\/p>\n

Don & June Salvatori California Pharmacy Museum<\/p>\n

Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park<\/p>\n

Locke Boarding House Museum<\/p>\n

Maidu Museum & Historic Site<\/p>\n

Museum of Medical History<\/p>\n

Sacramento Children’s Museum<\/p>\n

Sacramento Historic City Cemetery<\/p>\n

Sacramento History Museum<\/p>\n

SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity<\/p>\n

Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum<\/p>\n

Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park<\/p>\n

Utility Exploration Center<\/p>\n

Verge Center for the Arts<\/p>\n

Most museums will offer free admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., though hours may vary. Specific hours for each location will be listed on the ticket registration page. The free tickets apply only to regular admission during the March 7\u20138 event.<\/p>\n

To help improve access, Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) <\/a>will provide complimentary rides for registered attendees. Participants will receive a free ride flyer valid from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on either Saturday, March 7, or Sunday, March 8.<\/p>\n

Riders can present the flyer to bus operators or light rail fare inspectors for free travel throughout the SacRT system on the day of their museum visit.<\/p>\n

More information, including ticket registration and transit details, is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty museums across the Sacramento region are set to open their doors for free during the 2026 Free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[93350,88858,63301,9399,31021,121,123,122,4963],"class_list":{"0":"post-200977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-california-automobile-museum","9":"tag-california-state-capitol-museum","10":"tag-california-state-railroad-museum","11":"tag-free-admission","12":"tag-free-tickets","13":"tag-sacramento","14":"tag-sacramento-headlines","15":"tag-sacramento-news","16":"tag-sacramento-regional-transit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}