Category: Exhibits
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This is San Jose Calling Exhibit at City Hall
This is San Jose Calling! Celebrating 100 Years of Radio Broadcasting San Jose City Hall (June 4, 2009 to January 21, 2010) This exhibition, featuring artifacts from The Perham Collection of Early Electronics, and loans from Charles Herrold’s grandson Stephen True, celebrated the world’s first regularly scheduled broadcast station in San Jose, Herrold’s FN –…
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Typewriters from History San José’s Collection on Display at SFO Museum
Above: Corona Model 3 Folding Typewriter, 1927 (History San José Collection) Because of the breadth and size of History San José’s Collection, we are often approached by other local museums to borrow artifacts for their exhibits. The SFO Museum at the San Francisco International Airport is one example. HSJ’s artifacts have been used on multiple occasions to…
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I Want Candy! New Pop-up Exhibit at the Pacific Hotel
This holiday season come explore sweets and treats from San Jose’s past in a pop-up exhibit in the Pacific Hotel lobby at History Park. The exhibit features vintage candy advertisements, candy packaging, tools of the trade and much more. Discover some of the candy manufacturers that called San Jose home and some fun candy facts.…
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The Wireless Age Exhibit visits the Googleplex
A smaller version of our recent exhibit at History Park The Wireless Age: Electronics Entrepreneurs Before Silicon Valley is now on view in the Building 43 lobby at Google’s Mountain View headquarters through January 2017, made available through Google’s GoArt program. The GoArt program is run by Google employees who volunteer their time to manage exhibit spaces throughout…
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History San José coming down the aisle
Don’t miss the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles’ upcoming exhibit Wedding Dress: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, which features historic wedding dresses from History San José’s textile collection and several vintage wedding photos from our archives. The exhibit explores the evolution of the wedding dress, ethnic similarities and differences, and tackles new questions raised…
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Remember Summers Gone By at Our Latest Pop-Up Exhibit at History Park
Summer is just around the corner and our curators have created a new pop-up exhibit with objects and ephemera from HSJ’s collection. As leisure time increased during the post-World War II boom, so did the number of South Bay residents seeking to beat the summer heat on the beaches of Santa Cruz. Check it out…
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Tattooed & Tenacious in the News
Our latest exhibit Tattooed & Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History, is in the news again. KQED recently put together a short video highlighting one of the show’s featured local artists, Sarah Grossman. Thanks so much to Kelly Whalen and KQED Arts for putting this fabulous video together. Check out the exhibit for yourself! Tattooed…
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Tattooed & Tenacious in the News
Our latest exhibit Tattooed & Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History, is in the news again. KQED recently put together a short video highlighting one of the show’s featured local artists, Sarah Grossman. Thanks so much to Kelly Whalen and KQED Arts for putting this fabulous video together. Check out the exhibit for yourself! Tattooed…
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Meet our Community Curators: Crystel Vasquez
To celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History, we will be highlighting the work of local female tattoo artists who helped curate the exhibit. For today’s exhibit opening, we are highlighting local tattoo artist Crystel Vasquez. Crystel has been tattooing for about 12 years. Today she works…
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Meet our Community Curators: Sam Rusk
To celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History, we will be highlighting the work of local female tattoo artists who helped curate the exhibit. Today, we are highlighting Sam Rusk. Like many of our other artists, Sam has always been drawn to art. As a kid she…
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