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Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

If the walls could speak at Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, they’d have a lot to say. The museum has been open since 1883 to house the preserved natural wonders of the area,...

Oceanside Museum of Art

What a difference a pandemic makes. For a collective of women artists who in 2019 began planning a group exhibition of their new works, it changed almost everything.  Julia C R Gray of Twenty...

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History invites the public to view its new exhibit, “Changes of Monterey,” and meet new Executive Director Carla Bitter on July 2. Closed for much of 2020 and...

Grammy Museum

A legendary music label, a hard touring jam band and a famous Mexican singer will be the opening acts for the Grammy Museum when the downtown Los Angeles venue reopens its doors May 21. “I can’t...

The Broad Museum

After more than a year of being closed, the Broad Museum is about to open its doors. When the museum closed for the pandemic 14 months ago, its director thought it was closing for...

Grace Hudson Museum

It’s been a long 14 months, but for Grace Hudson Museum Director David Burton and Curator Alyssa Boge, the wait to reopen Ukiah’s exceptional museum is finally over. On Friday, May 7, the museum...

Haggin Museum

Visitors to Stockton’s Haggin Museum will be the first in the country to see a new collection that traces the history and impact of the environmental movement through art. “The Long View | From...

Petersen Automotive Museum

For the better part of the past year, the joy of taking a leisurely, maskless stroll through just about any museum has been put on hold. Mark it down as yet another one of...

Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science

Massive. Huge. Titanic. The thigh bone of titanosaurus, maybe the largest dinosaur to ever walk the earth, was 8 feet in length and thick as a tree trunk. On Tuesday, its replica barely fit...

Crocker Art Museum

The Crocker Art Museum is framing its reopening around a new exhibit showcasing a more diverse group of artists. On Thursday, the museum reopened to the general public for the first time in more...

Museum of Latin American Art

The pieces in the Museum of Latin American Art’s new “Herland: Women Artists from the MOLAA Collection” exhibit cover topics such as race, social injustice and female empowerment. And it’s coming to viewers at...

New Museum Los Gatos

Local artists are taking this time of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore different media or try new methods and concepts. New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is celebrating this innovation with “Art in...

Napa Valley Museum

Napa Valley photojournalist Tim Carl has captured the beauty and devastation of the wine country wildfires for several years, creating vivid portraits of communities under siege. Now, the Napa Valley Museum has created a...

Temecula Valley Museum

The Temecula Valley Museum announces a new outdoor exhibit experience to take place at Sam Hicks Monument Park, 28300 Mercedes Street, in Old Town Temecula. The museum, which will offer three exhibits featuring the...

Oakland Museum of California

Dorothea Lange documented American life through nuanced photographs that highlighted the major social issues of the 20th century. Next week, you can virtually scroll through hundreds of her works, courtesy of the Oakland Museum...