Past Exhibits

Creating things is human – it connects us to the world around us and is a form of storytelling. Objects that are held in Museum collections also inspire storytelling and can help us draw unexpected connections to contemporary issues and perspectives.

This original exhibit begins to answer the question, “why here?” What was it that led the Valley of Heart’s Delight from orchards to oscillators? Who were the visionaries and risk takers who made it happen?

Since their introduction, bicycles have been used for work and for whimsy. Experience a unique collection of wacky, wonderful, and workhorse bicycles from around the Bay Area.

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas

A new contemporary—art that is produced at this present period in time—juried art exhibition featuring an excellent selection of local artists in painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media. The exhibit compliments the San Francisco Museum of Art’s off site exhibit The Los Altos Project: SFMOMA in Silicon Valley

Houses give us more than shelter. They give us a place to belong.

"If you talk to the animals, they will talk to you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them. And what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears one destroys." – Chief Dan George

Over the centuries, the relationship that Californians have had with the grizzly bear is one of dualities – expressed in fear and fascination.