The Museum is located at 1333 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.
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Exhibit of Vintage Hood Ornaments at Museum
The Community Memorial Museum is featuring an exhibit of vintage automobile hood ornaments during
the exhibit Hood Ornaments as Automobile Art open now through February 16th. “Automotive mascots”,
as the hood ornaments are called, flourished during the 1920s up until 1942. Artistically modeled
figures were attached to the radiator lids on the hoods of the automobiles.
This exhibit features female figures as hood ornaments. Some of them were known as Speed Nymphs.
Many of them incorporated flowing robes and hair in aerodynamic Art Deco forms. After Howard Carter
opened Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922, Egyptian designs were popular everywhere, and hood ornaments were
no exception. A number were designed by well known artists. Some hood ornaments were original to
the automobile, and others were added by the owner later to express their individuality. A few
actually incorporated openings where steam could escape if the radiator overheated, causing a
whistling sound that would alert the driver that it was time to add water to the radiator.
Museum 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. The Museum is located at 1333 Butte House Road in Yuba City. Admission is
free. For more information, call the Museum at 822-7141.
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Our Virtual Exhibit web site will take
you on a virtual tour through historic photographs of Sutter County and Marysville.
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