Western Museums Association
Current Exhibitions in California

African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland
   

 

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

   

 

Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles

Ongoing Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America

 

Banning Residence Museum, Wilmington

 

Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.

 

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The Beat Museum, San Francisco.

 


Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek.


Berkeley Art Museum. see UC/Berkeley Art Museum

Blackhawk Museum, Danville

Ongoing International Automotive Treasures

 

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas.

Ongoing Shipwrecks: Photographs by Gertrude Southworth and New Artifacts

 

Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana

Ongoing

Contemporary Netsuke: Miniature Sculpture from Japan and Beyond

 

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum, Escondido

 

 

California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica.

California Historical Society, San Francisco.

   

California Museum of Photography, Riverside; see UCR/California Museum of Photography.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Ongoing The Triumph of Prudence and The Triumph of Fortitude
 Ongoing Flora and Pomona

 

California Science Center, Los Angeles

Ongoing
World of Life Gallery – life sciences
Creative World Gallery – human innovation
SKETCH Foundation Gallery – air & space

 

California Museum of Women, History, and the Arts, Sacramento

Permanent California Hall of Fame
Ongoing Uprooted: Japanese Americans During World War II
Ongoing Latina’s: The Spirit of California

 

California State University Long Beach, University Art Museum, Long Beach 

   

 

California State University, Janet Turner Print Collection & Gallery,Chico

   

 

California State University, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles.

California State University, Fullerton. Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana

   

 

Catalina Island Museum, Avalon

   

 

Chaffey College, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga

   

 

Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont

Permanent Building a Legacy: Founding a Museum, Building a Collection
February 22 – July 26, 2009 James Hueter: A Retrospective
May 20 - September 27, 2009 Ten Pound Ape: Your Mother was Beautiful Once, part vier
May 20 - September 27, 2009 An Enduring Legacy: New Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection

 

Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Yuba.

   


Coronado Historical Museum, Coronado.

 

Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County, Yuba.

   

 

The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

April 23 - September 8, 2009

Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater,
1919-1949
June 18 - August 18, 2009
The J.Street Project
September 8, 2009 - January 19, 2010
There¹s a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak

 

Craft and Folk Art Museum. Los Angeles

   

 

Early California Painting Collection

White Gold: The Kathy and Ron Gillmeister Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

OngoingNorthern California Art Since 1945
OngoingEuropean Paintings from the Collection
August 8 - October 18, 2009Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists
November 6, 2009 – May 9, 2010

Treasures, Curiosities & Secrets: The Crockers and the Gilded Age

November 6, 2009 – May 9, 2010

Meadows and Mountains: The Art of William F. Jackson

 

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de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
 

 

Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts, Cherry Valley

   

 

Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Carmichael.

   

 

Falkirk Cultural Center, San Raphael.

   

 

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

   


Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco. See M.H. De Young Memorial Museum and California Palace of the Legion of Honor .

Folsom History Museum, Folsom
September 26 - November 1, 2009Rancho Cordova

 

Fort Crook Museum, Fall River Mills

   

 

Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton

Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles. See UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art. See Pepperdine University

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno

   

 

A Renaissance Cabinet Rediscovered

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

  

 

Golden State Museum, Sacramento

   

 

Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah.

   

 

Grier Musser Museum, Los Angeles
   

 

Haggin Museum, Stockton

   

 

Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College, Moraga

OngoingFrank Lobdell, Master Artist


Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. See UCB Phoebe A. Hearst Museum

Hollywood Entertainment Museum, Hollywood

Homestead Museum, City of Industry.

Hudson Museum, Ukiah

   


Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach.

 

Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Ongoing

Reflecting Glass
OngoingWho Needs a Title Anyway? TAG exhibition
October 17, 2009–February 22, 2010

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection

October 24, 2009–February 1, 2010

Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock

July 18, 2009 – November 30, 2009

British Watercolors of the Eastern Mediterranean

May 22, 2010 –Sept. 6, 2010

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs

Oct. 17, 2009–Feb 22, 2010

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection

October 24, 2009 – January  4, 2010

Central Avenue and Beyond: The Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles

October 24, 2009 – March 29, 2010

Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock

Dec. 5, 2009–March 29. 2010

Impressions of an Age: Dutch and Flemish Prints of the 17th Century

February 13, 2010 – June 28, 2010

A Clash of Empires: The Seven Years’ War and British America

April 3, 2010 – July 26, 2010

Child’s Play? Children’s Book Illustration of 19th-Century Britain

Oct. 23, 2010 – January 24, 2011

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Collection of Peter Marino

 

International Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach
  Surfing Walk of Fame
  Endless Summer
  Local Legends

 

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts: see Stanford University

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles

 

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
OngoingCommon Ground: The Heart of Community
A Process of Reflection: Paintings by Hisako Hibi

 

Judah l. Magnes Museum, Berkeley
   


Kala Art Institute, Berkeley,


Korean American Museum, Los Angeles.

La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
   

 

The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale.

OngoingLace and Lace-making Tools


Latino Museum of History, Art & Culture, Los Angeles.


Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek. See Bedford Gallery

 

Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Walnut Creek
   

 

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach.
   

 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Ongoing

Mexican Masterpieces from the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection

 

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
   

 

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Los Angeles
   

 

The Harriet & Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
   

 

 The Judah L. Magnes Museum,  Berkeley

   

 

 Marin History Museum, San Raphael

  Louise Arner Boyd: Marin's Artic Explorer

 

Merced County Courthouse Museum,  Merced

   

 

Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
   

 

Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey
   

 

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey

Ongoing

La Mirada: Restless Seas: Works by Armin Hansen

Ongoing La Mirada: Charles M. Russell Bronzes
Ongoing La Mirada: The Art and Craft of Japanese Packaging: Gifts from Robert H. Skiles
  La Mirada: William F. Ritschel: Views of the Sea
  Pacific Street: MMA Biennial Awards

 

 

Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz.

   

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
   

 

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

PermanentLa Jolla: The Garden Gallery
PermanentLa Jolla: West Coast Cairn: Andrew Goldsworthy
OngoingDowntown: Luis Jimenez, Cruzando El Rio Bravo (Border Crossing)
OngoingDowntown: Primary Forms: Illuminated and Opaque
May 22, 2009 - September 6, 2009MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers

 

Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco
   

 

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach.
   

 

Museum of Miniatures (The Carole and Barry Kaye Museum of Miniatures), Los Angeles.

 

Museum of Neon Art, Los Angeles.
   

 

Museum of Performance & Design, San Francisco
April 17-August 29, 2009Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward

 

Museum of Vintage Fashion, Walnut Creek
   

 

National Steinbeck Center, Salinas

  

 

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles

   

 

Napa Valley Museum, Yountville

OngoingThe Land and People of Napa Valley and Jews of the Napa Valley
OngoingCalifornia Wine: The Science of an Art
June 13 - October 4, 2009Portals to the Past: Work and Play in Napa County

 

Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland

   

 

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland

OngoingCalifornia: A Place, A People, A Dream
OngoingGallery of California Art
OngoingWalk Across California
December 1, 2007 - June 2009The Art and History of Early California
April 25 - August 23, 2009.Squeak Carnwath: Painting Is No Ordinary Object
February 7 - August 23, 2009Future of Sequoias: Sustaining Parklands in the 21st Century
May 9 - August 23, 2009

The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present

 

Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena

Ongoing

Rarely Seen Objects from the Permanent Collection Including Ceramics from the Lydman, Snukal and Otto Collections

Ongoing

The Margot and Hans Ries Collection of Southeast Asian Ceramics

 

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History, Pacific Grove.

PermanentRollo Beck taxidermied specimens

 

Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles

Ongoing

Fossils from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits

 

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs

September 4 2008 - April 15, 2009 Collisions: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions
October 18, 2008 - March 1, 2009 Space Silence Spirit/ Maynard Dixon's West: The Hays Collection
November 8, 2008 - January 18, 2009 Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection
Through April 12, 2009 Gifts From the Einstein Collection
January 23 - April 19, 2009 Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits
February 3 - March 12, 2009 ACE 2009
February 11 - May 17, 2009 Wayne Thiebaud: Seventy Years of Painting
Through March 22, 2009 Louise Nevelson's Night Presence

Pardee Home, Oakland, CA.


Parks California, State Museum Resource Center, West Sacramento.

Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena
   

 

Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont
   

 

Pepperdine University,  Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu

January 17 - April 5, 2009Robert Dowd: Pop Art Money
May 23 - August 9, 2009On Location in Malibu 2009: Paintings by the California Art Club
August 22 - December 6, 2009Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
January 23 - April 4, 2010Mercedes Matter

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles.

Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont
   

 

Presidio Officers’ Club Exhibition Hall, San Francisco
  

 

Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site, Long Beach
OngoingSatellite Museum: Easing Her Burden: 19th Century Innovations for the Home

 

Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda.

San Bernardino County Museum.

   

 

San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego.

 

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego

OngoingAmerican Art: Selections from the Collection
Ongoing La Jolla: Garden Gallery
December 6, 2008 - April 19, 2009 Illuminated Sculpture
January 31 - April 26, 2009 Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, And Ideologies of the African Body
January 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Oceanic Art
March 28 - September 27, 2009 In the Company Manner
April 18 - May 31, 2009 Young Art 2009: Expressing Literature

 

San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego

Ongoing

Fossil Mysteries

March 5–October 4, 2009

Gunther von Hagen’s  BODY WORLDS 2 & The Three Pound Gem, The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies

 

San Dieguito Heritage Museum, Encinitas
   

 

S.F.Camerawork, San Francisco
   

 

San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco
   

 

San Francisco State University Museum of Ancient Civilizations, San Francisco
  

 

San Francisco State University, International Center for the Arts , San Francisco
   

 

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose.
   

 

San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose.
   

 

San Jose State University, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose
   

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
  Undersea Mysteries: The Secret Life of Ocean Creatures
  Classifying Nature: The World of Carl Linnaeus
  Early Navajo Weavings from the Anthropology collection

 

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara.
Behind the ScenesEarly Navajo Weavings from the Anthropology Collection

 

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
   

 

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica

   

 

Seymour Pioneer Museum, San Francisco
   

 

Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

OngoingVisions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America


Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
PermanentSonoma County: The Chosen Spot of All the Earth
October 2, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps 1472-1700

 

Stanford University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts., Stanford

OngoingThe Life and Legacy of the Stanford Family
Ongoing African Art in Context
Ongoing Auguste Rodin Collection
OngoingLiving Traditions: Arts of the Americas
November 5, 2008 - August 16, 2009A Passion for Collecting
March 18 – August 16, 2009Pop to Present
July 29 – October 18, 2009From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World
September 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010From Their Studios
November 11, 2009 - February 14, 2010Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings

 

Triton Museum of Art, and Rose Shenson Community Art Gallery, Santa Clara.

Ongoing

Austen D. Warburton Collection of American Indian Art and Artifacts

 

Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding
   

 

UC/Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
Through August 30, 2009Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye
Through September 27, 2009Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet
Through October 11, 2009MATRIX 228: Deborah Grant; Bacon, Eggs, Toast in Lard
August 26, 2009 - December 20, 2009Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth
September 23, 2009 - February 7, 2009Within An Arm's Reach: Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos
September 23, 2009 0 February 7, 2010Fernanado Botero: The Abu Graib Series
September 23, 2009 - December 29, 2009Material Witness: A World in Upheaval
October 14. 2009 - February 7, 2010Sarah Charlesworth: Arc of Total Eclipse, February 26, 1979
October 25, 2009 - January 10, 2010MATRIX 230 Omer Fast
November 4, 2009 - February 14, 2010Recent Acquisitions: The Asian Collection
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

UCB Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley
February 1, 2007 -

From the Land of the Rajas: Creativity in Rajasthan

 

UC Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery
   


UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

 

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles

OngoingReflecting Culture: the Francis E. Fowler, Jr. Collection of Silver

 

UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside

OngoingZeiss Cameras

 

UCR Sweeny Art Gallery, Riverside

   

 

University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles
   

 

USS Pampanito, National Maritime Museum Association, San Francisco
OngoingVoices of the Silent Service

 

Vacaville Museum, Vacaville
   

 

Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Vallejo
   

 

Ventura County Museum of History & Art, Ventura

Ongoing

Ventura County in the New West

 

Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles
   

 

Wells Fargo History Museum, San Francisco
OngoingWells Fargo, Since 1852

 

William Grant Still Arts Center
   

 

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
   

 

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