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The Society of California Pioneers' exhibitions offer a window to the past history of California and the West. The Society maintains a rotating schedule of stimulating, cross-disciplinary exhibitions focused on California art, history, and culture. Highlights of recent seasons include Incompletely Visible: the Legacy of the Bay Area Missions, Good Prospects: Life in the California Gold Fields, and The Big Picture: Panoramic Views of California, all of which drew upon the museum's collections that were amassed over the last century and a half. We invite you to attend our current exhibition – and browse our past exhibitions as well.

  Current Exhibitions
>> Singing The Golden State
Exhibition Extended through May 31, 2013 - The exhibition will remain
open on a smaller scale while the exhibition travels with Exhibit Envoy.
 
  Past Exhibitions
>> Curiosities & Keepsakes: Treasures of San Francisco’s Past
September 1, 2010 – December 3, 2011
>> The San Francisco Seals Goodwill Baseball Tour of Japan (1949)
October 7, 2009 – Fall 2010
>> Incompletely Visible: The Legacy of the Bay Area Missions
February 6 - May 28, 2010
>> The Streets of San Francisco
January 23 - August 29, 2008
>> The Big Picture: Panoramic Views of California
July 26 - March 3, 2007
>> From Empire State to Golden Gate: Alexander Cartwright and the Pacific Coast League
July 6-December 14, 2007
>> Good Prospects: Life in the California Gold Fields
May 9, 2007 - Summer 2009
>> Continental Drift: California Painting, 1918 - 1939
January, 25-June 29, 2007
>> Shake, Bake & Spin! San Francisco and the Media in the Aftermath of the 1906 Earthquake and fire
April 12 - December 8, 2006
>> Treasures of The Society of California Pioneers
September 14, 2005 - March 17, 2006
>> Documenting Eden: The Wine Country Photographs of Turrill & Miller
January 19 - July 29, 2005
>> The King's Orphan: Drawings of an Early Swedish Explorer to California
June 25 - December 10, 2004
>> The Language of Landscape
June 17, 2004 – May 27, 2005
>> Etched in Memory: Urban Views from the John S. Drum Collection
January 28 - May 28, 2004
>> Territorial Ambitions: Mapping the Far West 1772-1872
October 31, 2003 - May 28, 2004
>> Ore to Opulence: California Silver in the Gilded Age
June 19 - October 3, 2003
>> The McCarthy Collection
January 8 – July 18, 2003
>> Points of Interest: California Views 1860 - 1870
March 13, 2002-December 20, 2002
>> California: This Golden Land of Promise
February 7 – May 3, 2002
>> Kiss of the Oceans: Commerce and Culture at the 1915 World’s Fair
September 8, 2000 - December 12, 2001
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