# @sachistorymuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-07-18T00:33:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sacramento History Museum (@sachistorymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/sachistorymuseum

## Caption

July 17th is National Tattoo Day! This day celebrates those with tattoos and the stories their bodily markings tell, in addition to their personal meanings for many individuals.

Since February, we have featured the traveling exhibit called Tattooed & Tenacious: Inked Women in California History, which is a touring exhibit from Exhibit Envoy (exhibitenvoy) and the Hayward Area Historical Society (haywardareahistory).

Though many may think of tattoos as a recent fad, inked women have a long history in California. From indigenous and cultural coming of age practices to tattooed ladies performing in sideshows to the upper-class Victorian women who helped popularize the tattoo trend, visitors have to our museum have been able to discover the largely unknown history of women and tattoos through photographs, personal histories, and artifacts.

This exhibit features a collection of stories, images, works of art and more from today’s Sacramento-area tattooed women – and women artists – who bring history full circle. We have been incredibly fortunate for those who have shared their stories.

Tattooed and Tenacious, however, ends July 28th at the Sacramento History Museum, but there is still time to see the exhibit! Join us for a farewell celebration before this exhibit closes at the Museum for good.

Come one, come all Friday, July 26th, from 6pm – 9pm for sword swallowing, belly dancing, tattoo demonstrations, and more funfair festivities! All under the “big top” of the Sacramento History Museum! Tickets are $20 for nonmembers, $10 for museum members. We hope to see you there!

https://shopsachistorymuseum.org/EventPurchase.aspx?dateselected=7/26/2024

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