Join us in exploring the history of canning as we debut Sacramento in a Can – Featuring the Campbell’s Sacramento Story, chronicling the fascinating history of the canning industry in the Capital City.



Learn about the Campbell’s Sacramento Plant and its impact on the South Sacramento community through and see how Sacramento’s cannery industry left behind a cultural legacy of union struggles, family traditions, and the indelible scent of syrup and steam.

Discover how canning plants pulsed with seasonal activity, employing thousands, especially women and children from immigrant, Indigenous, and working-class communities and the role of rail and river transport that turned our region’s agricultural bounty into goods that could be shipped around the world.

Sacramento In a Can runs through Labor Day, September 1st and is included with Museum admission.