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The longest continuously operating art museum in the West, the Crocker Art Museum was founded in 1885 and remains the leading art institution for the California Capital Region and Central Valley. The Museum, which is housed in one of the finest examples of Victorian Italianate architecture in the United States, boasts one of the state鈥檚 premier collections of California art, world-renowned master drawings, and significant holdings of Asian art and international ceramics.

In 1869, Judge Edwin B. Crocker and his family assembled a collection of more than 700 paintings and nearly 1,300 master drawings 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鈥檚 premier collections of California art. The E. B. Crocker Collection was originally installed in 1873 and was one of the largest private collections in this country at that time.

While the Crockers frequently opened the gallery building to the public, it remained a privately held collection. On May 6, 1885, his widow, Margaret (1822-1901), fulfilled their shared vision of creating a public art museum when she presented the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery and collection to the public-private partnership of the City of Sacramento and the California Museum Association (now the Crocker Art Museum Association), 鈥渋n trust for the public.鈥� In doing so, she established a precedent-setting structure of a public-private partnership to oversee the Museum and its collection.

The Crocker is currently undergoing a 125,000-square-foot expansion scheduled to open in 2010 that will triple its size, improve visitor amenities, quadruple changing exhibition space and allow more of the permanent collection to be on view.