Current Exhibits
The museum's galleries are temporarily closed for in-person exhibitions until January 30, 2023. We hope you have a chance to visit us on campus, but you can still enjoy watching past virtual panels and visiting our virtual museum. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us via email.
Mon - Fri 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
January 30 - May 6, 2023
Free Admission and open to the public
- Closed: March 27 - 31, 2023
Photo of the Klamath River Prescribed Fire Training Exchange by Stormy Staats
Restoring Indigenous Burning in California
Wildfire is enshrouding California in unprecedented ways: destroying homes, taking lives, and toxifying the air. Yet, fire is a necessity for humanity. From time immemorial, Indigenous peoples of California developed positive and reciprocal relationships with fire. Learn about how Indigenous peoples intentionally set fires to maintain critical foods, fibers, and connections to place, while reducing wildfire severity and spread. These practices have profound effects on ecological and cultural revitalization, and have the potential to repair the harm of past land and fire management.
Dates: January 30 - May 6, 2023
Times: Mon - Fri 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed:
- March 27 - 31, 2023
- November, 11 & 21-25, 2022
Free Admission and open to the public
Learn more:
Previous Dates: October 22 - December 9, 2022
A gallery highlighting traditions and technologies of mud and mud-brick construction
Of Land, Sky, and Humanity
Fundamental to working with adobe is creating adobe structures as a community.
Our exhibition honors this long tradition, and showcases the practice of Joanna Keane-Lopez, an artist and adobera who sees working with adobe as a way of bringing people together. Explore her latest collaboration in this long tradition, which involves working with Cal State East Bay and UC Berkeley students to build hornos (ovens). Visit the museum to discover the process of creating adobe, learn how adobe connects people to the land and sky, and see how adobe installations reveal the beauty in mud, through strength and simplicity.
Dates: January 30 - May 6, 2023
Times: Mon - Fri 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed:
- March 27 - 31, 2023
- November, 11 & 21-25, 2022
Free Admission and open to the public
Previous Dates: October 22 - December 9, 2022
Modern archaeology is a billion-dollar business centered on
Cultural Resource Management (CRM), the discipline’s for-profit branch.
Indiana Jones went corporate half a century ago and this exhibit chronicles
that shift, offering an insider’s perspective on this little known but highly
influential industry employing around 80% of all archaeologists.
Our exhibit draws on CRM-sourced collections and engages with industry
professionals and alumni to offer visitors a sense for the everyday work
and often grueling reality of CRM archaeology and for the variety of
community partnerships, indigenous consultancies, and archaeological
collections the work produces alongside some of the controversies it has
generated over the decades.
Dates: January 30 - May 6, 2023
Times: Mon - Fri 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Closed:
- March 27 - 31, 2023
- November, 11 & 21-25, 2022
Free Admission and open to the public
Previous Dates: Oct 25 - Dec 10, 2021; Jan 31 - Mar 4, 2022; & October 22 - December 9, 2022
Fall 2022 - on loan to Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
In Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland, Botanica spiritual practices are highlighted in this exhibition, which provides a refuge folk saints and religious practices outside the mainstream. From the veneration and worship of African and Native American gods, to a variety of spiritual beliefs, the exhibit exposes the deep roots of contemporary Latinx culture in Northern California. Visitors are invited to commune with Latinx folk saints.
Visit the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park website for details.
'Botanica' installments comes to CSUEB - article about creating the 2019 exhibition.