Travel California: A Complete Guide to Sacramento

"The longest continuously-operating art museum in the Western U.S. is housed in two contrasting buildings: one a late 19th-century Italianate mansion—the one-time home of Edwin and Margaret Crocker—and the other a rounded modern structure built in 2010 to hold art studios, a larger library and an auditorium. The foundation for the museum’s collection came from the Crockers who actively collected California art, ceramics from around the world, and paintings from Europe (including 1,500 Old Master drawings), Asia, Africa and Oceania. The Crocker Museum has one of the world’s best collections of California art, from the early 1870s onward. Works range from impressionism to pop art, and include artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Joan Brown." - Sophie Friedman