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Fresh – recycled – art at the SFO Museum

03/12/13
The latest gift to travelers from the SFO MUSEUM at San Francisco International Airport features work from 45 of the more than 100 artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence Program at Recology San Francisco. The program, started by visionary artist and activist Jo Hanson in 1990, gives artists a stipend, studio space and scavenge […]

SFO Museum exhibit profiles China’s Civil Air Transport (CAT)

10/18/12
There’s a intriguing gem of an exhibition at the Louis A. Turpin Aviation Museum and Library in the lobby of the International Terminal at San Francisco International Airport. With more than 150 objects and images, Civil Air Transport: Asia’s Airline of Distinction looks at early flight in China and Civil Air Transport (CAT), the airline […]

Fun, fab blue jean advertising art at SFO Museum

09/12/12
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has a fun, fab new exhibit featuring advertising used to promote blue jeans from Levi Strauss & Co. as early as 1873. From Art Nouveau to Pop Day-Glo: Levi Strauss Advertising As Art features art and ephemera from the company’s archives, including catalog covers, salesman’s flyers, calendars […]

What every traveler needs: a remover of obstacles

08/22/12
The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is presenting an exhibition of Hindu sculptures from the collections of the Asian Art Museum from Saturday August 25th through Sunday, February 24, 2013, post-security in Terminal 3. The exhibited objects range from seventh- and eighth-century temple images carved from stone to elaborately rendered wooden sculptures made […]

Museum Monday: early flight gear at SFO Museum

02/06/12
  Early airplanes had open cockpits and aviators needed special equipment and protective gear in order to do their jobs. Examples of some of those items are now on exhibit at the San Francisco International Airport. Flight Gear: Pilot Equipment from the Open-Cockpit Era features more than forty examples of flight suits, jackets, helmets, goggles […]
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