Inside The Red Museum: Where Sacramento creatives welcome the strange and unusual

The Red Museum has taken on many identities over the decades — a bustling warehouse, a community hub, a volunteer-driven epicenter for experimental art. Vibrating at its own frequency on the outskirts of Sacramento’s Mansion Flats neighborhood, the venue has hosted everything from underground music shows and avant-garde performances to large-scale festivals that spill into the adjacent 1810 Gallery art studios.

What began in 2015 as a scrappy DIY space with 10 volunteers scrounging up rent money, quickly grew into a cultural anchor for the city’s creative scene drawing in musicians, dancers, filmmakers and neighbors alike.

Now, as The Red Museum celebrates 10 years of radical creativity, the group behind it isn’t just looking back on a decade of sound and spectacle — they’re reflecting t