December Museum Exhibits in San Francisco

From Ingrid Taylar, former About.com Guide

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San Francisco Museum Exhibits - December 2008

Listings updated annually.

December 2008 exhibits at San Francisco museums. Museums outside of the city are listed at the end.

** Note: Museums not listed are temporarily closed or do not have special exhibitions this month.

The Guide to San Francisco Museums has a more extensive list of venues, with full address and location information. The San Francisco Museum Map shows locations of museums within the city.

See the guide to Free Museum Days in San Francisco for monthly freebies.

21. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley)

Berkeley - Kroeber Hall on Bancroft Way at College Avenue

Traje de la Vida: Maya Textiles of Guatemala
From Sep 25, 2008

Works in this exhibit offer visitors a unique look into Maya culture through textiles collected over a hundred-year period

22. Lawrence Hall of Science (Berkeley)

Berkeley - On Centennial Drive in the Berkeley Hills

Engineer It
To Jan 4, 2009

Design and build models that Platformsolve engineering challenges in three areas—Wind, Water, and Structures

Science on a Sphere
Ongoing
See the Earth from space without ever leaving the ground. Creates visual effects from real scientific data and displays them on a six-foot diameter globe.

23. Cantor Arts Center (Stanford/Palo Alto)

Photo © Ingrid Taylar

Location: Stanford Campus - Palo Alto
Profile of the Cantor Arts Center

Goltzius and His Circle
To March 15, 2009
Two exhibitions focusing on the work of Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617), best known for his printmaking

Timbuktu to Cape Town
Opens Dec 3, 2008
Celebrates the complexity and variety of African art from across the continent, with an array of the most important African works acquired by the Center over the past 10 years.

Dürer to Picasso
To Feb 15, 2009
100 works from the Renaissance to WWII represent the top tier of art acquired through gift, purchase, and bequest since the museum's reopening in 1999, after a closure forced by the 1989 Lomia Prieta earthquake.

See a photos of nearby Stanford Campus.