The Vacaville Museum is a local history

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

located on Buck Avenue in

Vacaville, California Vacaville is a city located in Solano County in Northern California. Sitting approximately from Sacramento and from San Francisco, it is within the Sacramento Valley. As of the 2020 census, Vacaville had a population of 102,386, making it ...

History

Construction of the Vacaville Museum began in 1981 after Eva Buck, the wife of

Frank H. Buck Frank Henry Buck (September 23, 1887 – September 17, 1942) was an American heir, businessman and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1942. Biography Early life Frank Buck was born on a ranch near Vac ...

, donated money and land for the museum. It opened in 1984 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009. In 2015, public art project We Know Jack raised 90,000 for the museum by auctioning 24 fibreglass rabbits.

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External links

*{{official website, http://www.vacavillemuseum.org/ Museums in Solano County, California 1984 establishments in California Vacaville, California