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4worldlovers: May Woolsey was an ordinary Sacramento girl who left an extraordinary time capsule – full of thoughts, visions, worries, and hopes – found 100 years after her death in 1879. Join us to explore a new interactive exhibit and get a hands-on look at the experience of childhood in Sacramento in the 1800s.

This special interactive exhibit is presented by the Sacramento Pioneers Association and the Society of the Blind.

Relive the night life of Gold Rush Sacramento – if you dare! Old Sac After Hours Tours are back!

Your guides for the Old Sac After Hours Tours divulge matters they just can’t discuss in the daytime: Murder, mischief, madness, mayhem – and madams!

Needless to say, you must be 18 or older to take part.

We’re busting out the tours this month! Go Underground 7-days-a-week! Mondays – Fridays at 1 PM and 2:30 PM. Underground Tours run Saturdays and Sundays at new times. Check our schedule to the right! Your tour ticket includes museum admission!

Is the Old City Cemetery haunted? Join us as we investigate the Old City Cemetery for signs of paranormal activity. Experienced guides will help you investigate areas of the cemetery as they share some of the unsettling yet true stories of the site. Minimum age for these tours is 15.

Join the Gold Rush by becoming one of the real-life characters who built Sacramento City. Can you hang onto your fortune while facing the city’s rock first years of flood, fire and disease? Will you go Boom… or Bust? Join us Saturdays and Sundays at 11 am & 1 pm.


We are proud to be a Blue Star Museum and will be offering free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023. Blue Star Museums is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and Blue Star Families, in collaboration with the Department of Defense.

4worldlovers: The Turtle House was named after the large turtle once displayed outside the upstairs balcony. In Fall of 2003, someone stole said turtle. A large music note graced the balcony before the turtle, and at that time the house was known, appropriately, as the "Music Note House." The house is still referred to as "Turtle House," though some call it the "Ex-Turtle House." As of Winter 2008, there was a new turtle in the balcony, which was stolen during the following Whole Earth Festival, which was returned by the original culprits in 2010 when they realized their friends were current tenants.


From 1993 to 1996, the Turtle House was inhabited by members of the band Knapsack (some of whom went onto the Jealous Sound while Rob landed in Portland and played with The Hospitals). Knapsack filmed a video in the basement of this house for the debut single from their first album on Alias Records in 1995. The video was first played on MTV's "120 Minutes" and later was repeatedly aired as a "buzzworthy" video. Members of Shove and Skyscraper also lived in the Music Note / Turtle House in the 90's.

In 1998 the Turtle house residents invited the San Francisco based jam band Tea Leaf Green to play in the basement. Engagements at the Turtle House, and elsewhere around Davis, followed in the subsequent four-year period. Perhaps most notable of these was a series of collaborations with the noted Davis blues artist, and UC Davis art professor, Mike Henderson. During this period the Turtle House also played host, and occasional recording studio, to several locally active bands including 11-11, Uncle Harlen's Band, the Animal Liberation Orchestra and various combinations of the members of the Free Association.


In June, 2005, the Turtle House was sold. It was vacated due to a long, long list of health and safety issues that were discovered during the City of Davis' required resale inspection. The long-time absentee landlord had done 30 years of maintenance on the house but had neglected either to get or close the permits on the work. The new owner, former City Council member Michael Harrington, remodeled the house into a 3 unit rental for student/workforce housing.


As work progressed on the house over the summer, the true condition of the house became apparent and the house had to undergo multiple organ transplants. Most of the repairs and substantial upgrades (new central air, new sewer, plumbing and electrical, Internet and completely renovated bathrooms) have been completed. The basement is cleaned up and ready for entertaining, with new electrical outlet strategically placed for convenient use.


There was delay on replacing the porch when City Planning required a 500 foot notice to neighbors before resuming work over the Christmas holidays. The porch was completed May, 2006, coinciding with construction on the back of the house that replaced illegally-built back bedrooms with City-approved ones. The yard has been cleaned up and a new plan for the yard is being created.

Pictures from recent Turtle House shows can be seen on the Turtle House myspace page.

The Zim-Zims, who also recorded some tracks in the Turtle House basement in 2003

GLUG - Picnic Day 2006, performed on the porch which rocked the neighborhood.

The www.myspace.com/redevent with Radio Astronomy and Julie Meyers on Feb 10, 2007.

Former residents include various esteemed members of Lawlife, Kamelia Bakhtiari, Kristy Mercurio, Steve Helton, Alex Barrow, Cinzia Pinamonti, Veronica Rice, Megan Rynott, Mary Moffett, Amy Lee, Jeremy Ross, Elliott Pollard, Elise Winn, and Cerebus (elliott and elise's turtle), Audry Nicklin, Rob Roy of Sterling Riot, James Schwab, Katie Delwiche, Dan Masiel, NickSchmalenberger, JuliaRoseFurman, LeeWalthall (owner of Delta of Venus), pxl, Eric of Legubitron (previously) and Sholi and Gonzalo aka G2 of Mushpot Records and of GnarToon (previously) and of Boss the Big Bit (broken up, possible revival tour January 2007)

Do not leave stuff around the yard or on the porch that you want to keep and lock your doors. People have a habit of walking by and taking stuff off the porch and from your rooms.

There is an old lady who lives on University ave. one house down. The basement entrance faces her house. During concerts and parties the noise made around that area hits her bedroom directly...thus she likes to call the police.

If you are going to have a bonfire have some marshmallows on hand, while they are tasty, the law says you can only have a fire for the purposes of cooking.