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Exhibits
Museum Exhibits The Museum is located at 1555 Butte House Road, Yuba City. Hours are Tuesday through Friday 9-5, Saturday & Sunday 12-4. The Museum has a number of permanent exhibits on the Maidu Indians, early Sutter County settlers, agriculture, the Sutter Buttes, and school life. Smaller displays include transportation, women, Lola Montez, local photographs, the 1955 flood, the stereoscope, a Baldwin player piano and the old Meridian Bridge. Some special items of interest are the restored Yuba Ball Tractor, John Sutter's Gun, and Lola Montez's dressing table.

The Exhibits combine artifacts, photographs and interpretive labels that provide a self-guided tour. Group tours are available Tuesday through Friday by appointment only.

Special Exhibits in the Main Hall change every three to four months. They include in-house exhibits with a local focus as well as traveling exhibits with a broader context focusing on California and Western history.

Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
Portrait of artist Lyn Risling by Hulleah Tsinnahjinnie, UCDavis. Copyright 2004 The Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County is presenting a new traveling exhibit featuring California Native American art and poetry. Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home opens with a reception on Friday, September 26, 2008 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The opening program features The Feather River Singers, a Native American women’s drum group performing traditional songs with a large drum. It is a rare opportunity to see this talented local group perform, and it is their first performance at the museum.

The exhibit Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home is an extraordinary exhibit in which California Native stories, songs and dance take form in poetry, painting, basketry, jewelry, printmaking, photography and sculpture. Themes of family history, identity, self-acceptance, cultural traditions, racism, and socioeconomics are explored.

The exhibit is organized by the California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) and was developed in concert with Heyday Books. CERA is a network of professionally operated museums and cultural organizations that collaborate to create and tour smaller, affordable, high quality exhibitions that enhance civic engagement and human understanding. The exhibit is made possible by generous grants for The James Irvine Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Columbia Foundation, LEF Foundation, the Fleishhacker Foundation, The Clorox Company Foundation, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Sing Me Your Story will remain at the Community Memorial Museum through November 16, 2008. The Museum is located at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba City. Open hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 822-7141.

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Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home
Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home

Past Exhibits


Virtual Exhibit

Our Virtual Exhibit web site will take you on a virtual tour through historic photographs of Sutter County and Marysville.



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