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This is your last week to catch “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” on display in Terminal 2. This image was posted on September 16, 2024. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
“(As a boy) I had free access to television, which of course goes hand in hand with pop culture. This image was posted on July 31, 2024. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
“In keeping with physical fitness trends, I was always hoping that visitors, by viewing some forgotten object, might be exercising that area of the brain which holds onto the memory cells.”—Mickey McGowan, December 2022 The Unknown Museum, curated by Mickey McGowan, was conceived as part conceptual art, part hands-on experience. This image was posted on June 21, 2024. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
“I try to supply fifty percent of the experience. This image was posted on May 20, 2024. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
Unknown Museum’s “resident curator,” Mickey McGowan developed a unique interpretation practice that recalled high school science fair displays. This image was posted on April 02, 2024. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
Many of the assemblages in the Unknown Museum were conceived as conceptual art, inviting people to embark on their own unique “personal scavenger hunt.” When confronted with so many common objects from years past, visitors often asked curator, Mickey McGowan, to see a specific item, and then proceeded to search for it among a multitude of similar things. This image was posted on November 30, 2023. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
“In keeping with physical fitness trends, I was always hoping that visitors, by viewing some forgotten object, might be exercising that area of the brain which holds onto the memory cells.”—Mickey McGowan, curator, Unknown Museum, December 2022 A visit to the Unknown Museum is a complete immersion in conceptual art and American consumerism. This image was posted on September 28, 2023. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
Television asserted a profound influence on mid-twentieth-century America, guiding popular culture, public taste, and the consumption of mass-produced goods. This image was posted on August 14, 2023. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
Our newest exhibition, “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” is now on display in Terminal 2! This image was posted on May 19, 2023. #unknownmuseum #mickeymcgowan #bayarea #bayareahistory
Happy Birthday, BART! This image was posted on September 09, 2022. #sfhistory #bayareahistory #bart #transit
NEW BLOG ALERT: “Katherine Stinson in San Francisco 1917” by our Curator of Aviation Dennis Sharp is up on our blog. This image was posted on May 31, 2022. #katherinestinson #avgeek #aviationhistory #bayareahistory #aviatrix
In 1961, the Nut Tree Restaurant commissioned its first model by Edward Chavez after Edwin Power, a pilot and one of the restaurant's owners, had seen Chavez's work in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. This image was posted on January 29, 2020. #avgeek #aviationhistory #modelplanes #nuttree #vacaville #edwardchavez #nuttreeairport #bayareahistory