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On May 6, 1885, Margaret E. Crocker presented the Crocker art gallery building, the grounds, and the E. B. Crocker Collection “in trust for the public” to the public-private partnership of the City of Sacramento. The museum features 15 special exhibits, a rotating permanent collection and more than 250 programs and events each year. In 1869, Judge Edwin B. Crocker and his family assembled a collection of more than 700 paintings and around 1,344 master drawings (one of the finest early collections in the United States) during an extended trip to Europe from 1869-71. Before and after their trip, the Crockers acquired numerous paintings by contemporary California artists, forming the core of what is today one of the state’s premier collections of California art.
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