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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. The museum contains more than 1.8 million objects dedicated to "telling the extraordinary story of California." [1]
Afro-American Solidarity with Oppressed People of the World – poster of a warrior by Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party 1967–1980, Emory Douglas. [2]Huey Newton photograph – the iconic image of Huey Newton enthroned in a wicker chair composed by Eldridge Cleaver and photographed by Blair Stapp in 1967.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Oakland Aviation Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Camron-Stanford House; P. Pardee Home; USS Potomac (AG-25) R. United States lightship Relief (WLV-605)
After the Storm: Bob Walker and the Art of Environmental Photography was an exhibit and retrospective of Bob Walker's work held at the Oakland Museum, "The Museum of California" from March 3, 2001, to June 24, 2001. The exhibit was preceded by and followed by several other locations, including the San Francisco Arts Commission from October 4 ...
In 1965, curator Therese Heyman acquired for the Oakland Art Museum (predecessor of the Oakland Museum of California) many of Maurer's works and papers. The museum presented an exhibition of his 1906 post-earthquake photographs in February 1965. He died later the same year, aged 94.
The building is #27 on the list of Oakland Historic Landmarks., [3] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. [4] The building is located at 10 10th Street, in the Civic Center district of the city. It is next to the Oakland Museum, Laney College, Lake Merritt, and near the Lake Merritt BART station.
Promotional photograph of one day's output at the Chevrolet factory in Oakland, California, circa 1917. Photograph commissioned by Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau. Photographer from Cheney Photo Advertising Co. Original photo part of Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room