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Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 1868, oil on canvas William Keith, Early Oakland, 7th and Adeline Streets, The Southern Pacific Depot, 1867, watercolor The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located at 1000 Oak Street in Oakland, California.
Pages in category "Museums in Oakland, California" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (stylized as The MADE) is an Oakland, California, museum dedicated to digital art and gaming, with fully playable gaming exhibits. [1] Its mission is to collect and curate video games, digital media concept art, and gaming systems, to teach the public about digital art and the process of gaming creation.
The one-day free-admission event features more than 30 museums across Southern California and covers a gamut of artistic interests.
It is now a non-profit museum showing over 100 years of the life of a prominent California family. The house, a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, is a city landmark, a California Historical Landmark, [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house was constructed in 1868 by California State Senator Enoch H ...
The AAMLO is located at the Charles S. Greene building which previously was the Carnegie library.The building served as the Oakland Main Library from 1902 to 1951. [3]The AAMLO began as a private collection in 1946, and on July 2, 1965, became the East Bay Negro Historical Society (EBNHS).
The museum was opened the same year as the Mills College Art Gallery. Albert M. Bender, the Mills College Trustee chiefly responsible for the museum's completion, made a gift of 40 paintings and 75 prints by contemporary San Francisco Bay Area artists. Bender's gift became the first public collection of modern art in Northern California.
Opened August 19, 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is an 86,000-square-foot (8,000 m 2), state-of-the-art science and technology education facility on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site in the hills of Oakland, California. The museum was formerly an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program [2] but is currently no longer an affiliate.