Current Exhibits
The museum's galleries are closed for in-person exhibitions during fall. We hope you had a chance to visit us on campus this Spring when we reopen, 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.
Closed
Reopening: Spring 2024
Dates: TBD
Free Admission and open to the public
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
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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