Sacramento History Museum, History museum in Old Sacramento State Historic Park, United States

The Sacramento History Museum occupies a reconstructed 1854 City Hall and Waterworks building positioned along the Sacramento River in the historic district. The exhibition displays objects and materials that provide insight into how different groups of people lived in this region.

The museum opened in 1985 as the Sacramento History Center, showing artifacts and records from the Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center. In 1993 it merged with the Sacramento Science Center as the Discovery Museum, and the Old Sacramento site became the Gold Rush History Center. In July 2008 the City of Sacramento dissolved that partnership and the museum took its present name, now run jointly by the city, the county and the Sacramento History Alliance. Its brick building reproduces the 1854 City Hall and Waterworks, demolished in 1913.

The museum displays stories of gold miners, Native American peoples, and early settlers through objects and exhibitions gathered from the region. Visitors see everyday items from different periods that show how people lived and worked here.

The museum stands at 101 I Street in Old Sacramento, along the Sacramento River between the Tower Bridge and the I Street Bridge. The Sacramento History Alliance runs guided tours of Old Sacramento, including the "Old Sacramento Underground" tour showing how the city was raised after floods in the 1860s and 1870s.

During the 2020 pandemic closure, volunteer Howard Hatch filmed himself operating the museum's historic presses, and the videos went viral. By June 2024 the museum's YouTube channel had over 3.24 million subscribers, the most of any museum on the platform, with more than one billion views.