Collecting the Story of Día de Los Muertos in Sacramento

For over eight years, Sol Collective, the Center for Sacramento History, and the Sacramento History Museum have partnered to celebrate Día de Los Muertos in Old Sacramento. This year, while we will still be honoring the tradition of the event, our celebration will look different due to COVID-19 and social distancing. 

For 2020, we want to collect your stories so we can trace the history of Día de Los Muertos in our community and show how it has evolved and grown. What did early celebrations look like? Who were among the early participants? Why is it important? What does this celebration mean to you? 

Please contribute digital images, films, and objects that tell your Día de Los Muertos story. We will be utilizing what you share with us in an exhibit that will be on display around Old Sacramento and at the Sacramento History Museum in October. We will also be creating a permanent archive of what we collect at the Center for Sacramento History. Your contributions will help document Día de Los Muertos in the Sacramento region so its story will be known to future generations. Please help us preserve your history.

The Center will review all material and at its discretion may edit submissions. We are not obligated to include all submissions in this project or in our permanent collection.

We are also accepting physical objects, photographs, and documents for later donation. Complete the form below and our staff will contact you after the shelter in place is lifted to discuss possible donation of your items to our permanent collection.

Terms and Conditions for Día de Los Muertos Collecting Initiative

Thank you for considering our request for submissions of digital media and information to help us document your Día de Los Muertos stories during the COVID-19 pandemic. By uploading content to our platform, please be aware that you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions.

• You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally give, transfer, assign, and set over to the City of Sacramento, for the Center for Sacramento History (CSH), by way of an unrestricted gift, all rights, title and interests (including all copyright, trademark, related interests in all media, by any means or method now known or hereafter invented), in, to, and associated with your submission.
• The digital media and information included in your submission are to be held and administered by CSH and are given to the City of Sacramento to have and to hold absolutely for the purpose of enhancing and stimulating the educational and cultural interests and growth of the general public. As such, CSH may reproduce, display, edit, store, manipulate, make accessible, or license the use of the images, in perpetuity. No gift or service is extended by the City of Sacramento to the donor in consideration of this gift.
• Your submission may or may not become part of the Center for Sacramento History’s permanent collection.
• CSH may identify you as the source of the digital media and information in your submission using your first and last name and/or social media identifier and handle.
• By making or agreeing to a submission, you acknowledge the following:
  • you are 18 years or older;
  • you are the parent/guardian with legal responsibility of any minors or children depicted in the submission;
  • you own or otherwise control the rights to your submission;
  • you have permission from any and all third parties appearing in your submission to use their likeness and/or to submit their information on their behalf;
  • your submission does not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity/privacy, patent, trade secret, or confidentiality obligations
  • you are the owner of the content included in your submission, and you have good and complete right, title, and interests to give.
  • The Center for Sacramento History reserves the right to edit or remove any submission form