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Museum Monday: SFO Museum’s latest offering

08/01/16

The newest exhibit from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport, “From Print to Plate: Views of the East on Transferware,” features early nineteenth-century blue-and-white transferware with scenes of India, the Middle East, and China. You’ve likely seen examples of transferware or transferware-like plates, but never looked closely at the actual images there. If →

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At SFO Museum: Fashion in Flight

06/17/16

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport has an exhibition showing off 85 years of fashion in flight attendant uniforms, now through January 2017. →

Vintage purses on display at SFO Museum

01/24/16

A new exhibition offered by the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport features exquisite vintage purses and bags that will have your rethinking how you carry around your daily essentials. →

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Museum Monday: Toy Story at SFO Museum

11/15/15

A new exhibition from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Toy Story film with a presentation of artwork and artifacts from Pixar. Included in Toy Story at Twenty are maquettes, modeling sculptures, creative props and images that illustrate the development of Woody, Buzz, and the rest of →

Mingei: Traditional Japanese Art at the SFO Museum

08/08/15

The SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is hosting an exhibition of traditional Japanese arts – mingei – in the International Terminal Main Hall through January 2016. The objects on view include lanterns, fans, iron kettles and toys and are on loan from the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, which collects and exhibits →

California’s regional airlines at SFO Museum

06/16/15

There’s yet another great exhibit at San Francisco International Airport,courtesy of the SFO Museum. This one is all about the California regional airlines that flew between the 1950s and the 1980s. According to museum notes, although numerous regional airlines existed during the late 1920s, they mostly went bankrupt or merged into larger, trunk-carrier airlines by →

Monsters move in to SFO Airport

05/19/15

The newest offering from the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport is an exhibition about monsters. Not the kind that live under the bed, but the monsters made famous by Universal Pictures, which pretty much invented the monster movie genre in 1923 with the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera, →

Art Deco on exhibit at SFO Airport

03/25/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays fashionable and everyday items that evoke the Art Deco era, from works by French sculptors to airline-shaped cocktail shakers and streamlined radios. Need a quick quick recap on Art Deco? The exhibition notes tell us that this design style popular in the 1920s and ’30s →

SFO Museum celebrates aviators at the 1915 World’s Fair

02/21/15

A new exhibition at San Francisco International Airport displays images of the popular aeronautical programs that were presented at San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair – known as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Included in Fancy Flying: Aviation at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition – are twenty-one recently created black and white gelatin silver prints made from →

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Museum Monday: Egyptian Revival at SFO Airport

01/11/15

The SFO Museum’s newest exhibit at SFO Airport highlights the design style known as Egyptian Revival and features objects ranging from nineteenth-century mantel clocks and ornate Victorian table stands to Art Deco beaded purses and cigarettes and cigarette cases. Cleopatra, the Rosetta Stone and King Tutankahamun’s tomb are just a few reasons why the West →

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