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Art, History, Natural Sciences, Education

 
Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace
 The Edge: Where California Culture, Critters, and Environment Collide
The Art Department has Presented:
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture At Midcentury
ARTISTS OF INVENTION: A CENTURY OF CCA
A LEGACY OF ART: THE TED AND RUTH NASH COLLECTION
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews
Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter
New Acquisitions: Video Work by Bill Viola
Edward Weston: Masterworks from the Collection
Enrique Martínez Celaya: Works on Paper
The Art of Vivika and Otto Heino
Points of View: Selections from the Museum Art Collection
Sculpture by Bruce Beasley: A 45-Year Retrospective
Photography: Recent Acquisitions
Therese Thau Heyman: A Curator's Legacy
The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are 
The Art of Fred Martin: A Retrospective, 1948-2003
Marvin Lipofsky: A Glass Odyssey
Quizzical Eye: The Personal Photography of Rondal Partridge
Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Solo Flights: The Aerial Photographs of Robert Hartman
Ansel Adams: Inspiration and Influence
Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle
Scene in Oakland, 1852 to 2002: Artworks Celebrating the City's 150th Anniversary
Being There: 45 Oakland Artists
Recent Works by Raymond Howell
Grand Lyricist: The Art of Elmer Bischoff
Made in Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett
A Legacy of Early California Paintings: The Shumate Collection
Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography 1850-2000
Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch
Fired by Ideals: Arequipa Pottery and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Helen Nestor: Personal and Political
California Classic: Realist Paintings by Robert Bechtle
Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection
Amazing Bikes: Two Centuries on Two Wheels
Posters American Style
What Is Art For? William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster & 100 Artists
A Poetic Vision: The Photographs of Anne Brigman
Wood: Masterworks from the Wornick Collection
Hello Again: A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design
The Art of John Cederquist: Reality of Illusion
The Friends of Anne Brigman: Bay Area Pictorialists 1900-1925
Art of the Gold Rush
Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown
All Things Bright & Beautiful: California Impressionist Painting
Bay Area Sculptors Group Exhibitions V: The Object
Joe Slusky: Recent Polychrome Sculptures
Dog Haus: Architecture Unleased
Silver & Gold
   
The History Department has Presented:
Trading Traditions: California’s New Cultures
Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers
Oakland to the Rescue!
Aftershock! Voices from the 1906 Earthquake & Fire
Oakland’s Coach: The Legacy of George Powles
Baseball As America
Playing Favorites: Community Choices from the History Collections
What's Going On?—California and the Vietnam Era
Henry J. Kaiser: Think Big
In Our Own Voice: The Making of a Korean Community
The Cars of Kaiser-Frazer: A Car for Everyone 
Facing Hate: A Community Responds 
Iconic to Ironic: Fashioning California Identity
Reflections in Black: Art and Activism
State of Emergency: Disaster Response in California
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Half Past Autumn: The Art of Gordon Parks
Every Worker is an Organizer: Farm Labor and the Resurgence of the United Farm Workers
Women of Taste: A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs
Crazy Quilts
Remember Your Relations: The Elsie Allen Baskets, Family and Friends
A Walk Along the Water: Oakland's Dynamic Waterfront
We Called It A Work Holiday: The 1946 Oakland General Strike
Memory and Imagination
GOLD FEVER! The Lure and Legacy of the California Gold Rush
The Discovery of Gold in California: Paintings by Harry Fonseca
   
The Natural Sciences Department has Presented:
Annual California Wildflower Show 2008
38th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
Bringing the Condors Home
37th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
The Art of Seeing: Nature Revealed Through Illustration
Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A. R. Valentien
36th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
36th Annual California Wildflower Show 
35th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
34th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
35th Annual California Wildflower Show
Rustler Ranch Mastodon Project
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Unearthing a Mastodon
Portrait of an Estuary: San Francisco Bay
34th Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair
Annual California Wildflower Show 2003
The Art of Seeing: Nature Revealed Through Illustration
Wild Wings: The Waterfowl Art of Harry Curieux Adamson
Annual California Wildflower Show 2002
California's Native Grandeur: Preserving Vanishing Landscapes
After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography
Annual California Wildflower Show 2001
California Species: Biological Art & Illustration
Treasures of the Tar Pits
California Underground: Our Caves and Subterranean Habitats
Annual California Wildflower Show
California Species: Biological Art and Illustration
Awakening from the California Dream: An Environmental History
   
The Education Department has Presented:
Cool Remixed Bay Area Urban Art + Culture Now
Sheltering Our Cherished Treasures
Laughing Bones/Weeping Hearts: Días de los Muertos 2006
El Muertorider arrives at the Museum
CaliVera Days of the Dead Altars Remixed
Iluminaciones: Days of the Dead Indigenous and Colonial Expressions
Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for Days of the Dead
Kids Collect: California History in the Making
Espíritu Sin Fronteras: Ofrendas for the Days of the Dead
Pasajes y Encuentros: Ofrendas for the Days of the Dead
Our World: The Children of Oakland
La Flor y la Calavera: Altars and Offerings for the Days of the Dead 2000
Days of the Dead 1999
   
The Professional Services Department has Presented:
100 Families: Art and Social Change

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