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To create the images in “Color Light Abstractions”, #photographer #WynnBullock produced an apparatus that held a number of horizontal sheets of clear glass spaced evenly above one another. #photography This tweet was posted on January 15, 2020.

In 1969, Continental Airlines received approval for a route to Hawai’i, which the airline considered the most lucrative. The service was widely advertised and featured on promotional items such as branded flight bags. Do you own any flight bags? #WidebodyAV This tweet was posted on December 26, 2019.

In honor of our 40th anniversary, every week this year we are highlighting one of our past exhibitions. In 2011, we presented "The Enduring Designs of Josef Frank" featuring textiles and furnishings by Josef Frank, a leading pioneer of Swedish Modern design. #TBTSFOM #SFOMat40 This tweet was posted on January 16, 2020.

Stanley Henry Page was a San Francisco Bay Area engineer who was inspired by the new technologies of flight. In the 1920s, Stanley Page merged his love of flying with glass plate photography. #StanleyHenryPage This tweet was posted on January 17, 2020.

A French portrait of the New World in the 1830s, it features several idealized scenes beginning with New York Bay as seen from New Jersey. #ZuberScenicWallpaper This tweet was posted on December 27, 2019.

A new wave of consumerism swept across the US during the 1950s. Designers utilized bold styling to transform everyday objects into visually expressive items, and manufacturers unleashed an array of products to keep pace with demand. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on December 30, 2019.

A new wave of consumerism swept across the US during the 1950s. Stores carried everything from portable televisions and pocket-sized radios to space-age toys and plastic dinnerware sets. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on December 31, 2019.

This is your last week to see “The Modern Consumer: 1950s Products and Style!” Are you looking for design inspiration or looking or a little bit of nostalgia? https://t.co/A9goh76A5o #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on December 30, 2019.

This is your last week to see “The Modern Consumer: 1950s Products and Style!” Driven by a thriving postwar economy, designers utilized bold styling to transform everyday objects and manufacturers unleashed an array of products to keep pace with demand. #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on December 31, 2019.

“Views of North America” culminates with a sublime natural wonder—Niagara Falls—the ultimate North American tourist destination. A technological marvel at the time, a steam-powered boat pushes past the falls. #ZuberScenicWallpaper This tweet was posted on December 27, 2019.

#SarahCain’s precisely orchestrated installation ensures that each experience of color does not intersect a matching tone while also balancing hues to create a vibrant, vital and inviting kaleidoscope. Photos courtesy of © Jeff Mclane Photography This tweet was posted on January 06, 2020.

During the #VietnamWar, commercial airliners along with their crew were chartered to fly US troops into combat zones. Few of the flight attendants were prepared for the reality of serving on a plane taking young men to war. The soldiers were equally unprepared. #FreedomBirds This tweet was posted on December 18, 2019.

Happy New Year! The Aviation Museum and Library is closed tomorrow for New Year's Day. All other galleries are open. To quote from Air West's greeting card: "In the friendly spirit of the season, warm wishes for a pleasant holiday and a happy, prosperous New Year." #HappyNewYear This tweet was posted on December 31, 2019.

In 1971, TWA (Trans World Airlines) introduced a new group of flight attendant uniforms conceived by Rome-based fashion designer #Valentino Garavani (@MaisonValentino). The uniform came in three colors: purple, brown, or beige. #WidebodyAV This tweet was posted on January 08, 2020.

NOW PLAYING: "A Year along the Geostationary Orbit" by Felix Dierich. Dierich provides a hypnotic vision of our planet through the eyes of Himawari-8, which travels 35,786 km/22,236 miles above Earth at more than 11,000 km/6,800 miles/hour. https://t.co/LxKFoRgL5o #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/k9b39zau4F This tweet was posted on January 03, 2020.

NOW PLAYING: "Hedgehog" by #EdwardBulmer. Bulmer offers a comedic look at the debilitating effects of #anxiety and self-doubt on a young man who longs to escape his routine and experience the world. https://t.co/Y2NyobcWyf #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/INb7bhgKYc This tweet was posted on December 17, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Kathryn" by Bas Berkhout. Berkhout profiles twenty-five-year-old artist Kathryn Engberg, a third-generation classical realist portrait painter whose work challenges how women are typically portrayed in the media. https://t.co/7087tVVfhN #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/KSyaGhfNRU This tweet was posted on January 06, 2020.

RT @airandspace: A successful powered airplane and the aerial age were #IdeasThatDefy imagination before the Wright brothers' first flight… This tweet was posted on December 17, 2019.

#OnThisDay in 1957, the first Boeing 707 took flight on a rainy day from Renton Municipal Airport in Washington. N708PA, the aircraft that took this first test flight, pictured here, was delivered to Pan American World Airways on Nov 30, 1958. Did you ever fly on a 707? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 20, 2019.

#Onthisday in 2017, Delta Air Lines’ last 747 took its final scheduled international flight from Seoul, South Korea to Detroit, Michigan. Though originally scheduled December 17th, the flight was rescheduled for December 19. Did you ever fly on a #Delta Boeing 747? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 19, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "The Moon’s Milk" by Ri Crawford. Captain Millipede and his crew embark on a final expedition to the Moon to harvest its milk in Oakland-based filmmaker Ri Crawford’s stop-motion animated short. https://t.co/5WXnwP4Nwx #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/YnC3cVFAnc This tweet was posted on December 23, 2019.

Seen through the lens of #BryantAustin’s telescopes, the sun’s presence is heightened and its connection with the landscape becomes tangible—offering us a poignant reminder of our place in the universe, and of a reality that operates on a much larger timescale. #photography This tweet was posted on December 18, 2019.

With many holidays coming up, we hope you will find time to gather with loved ones for a good meal. Need some cooking inspiration? In the 1950s, Carnation advertised a #recipe for creamed chipped beef & Dole offered “6 wonder-working varieties” of canned pineapple! #1950sConsumer This tweet was posted on December 19, 2019.

NORAD or the North American Aerospace Defense Command started tracking #Santa’s movements #onthisday in 1955. Follow along this year @NORADSanta. What is a winter holiday tradition you and your loved ones follow? #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 24, 2019.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 was initially designed to be operated on transcontinental or regional routes with fewer passengers than the Boeing 747 thus broadening the widebody market to more airlines and a greater proportion of the traveling public. #WidebodyAV This tweet was posted on December 05, 2019.

The first modern day success story of biocontrol was the introduction of the Vedalia beetle, a species of ladybug, from Australia into California in 1888 to control cottony cushion scale, a major insect pest of oranges and other citrus trees. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on December 24, 2019.

#PeterVoulkos (1924–2002) was at the leading edge of a revolution in American ceramics. In 1954, Voulkos was hired to form a ceramics department at the Otis Art Institute in LA, where he employed traditional techniques and experimented with more abstract forms. #CaliforniaCrafts This tweet was posted on December 06, 2019.

As the #December chill has descended on the Bay Area, SFO Museum staff would love to visit a beach like this one featured on a #PanAmerican poster advertising the tropical island of #Bermuda. Do you have any getaway plans this month? #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on December 10, 2019.

Can you imagine a roundtrip flight from the Philippine capital of Manila, to California taking 15 days? In 1935, the first scheduled transpacific airmail flight took 8 days to reach Manila from Alameda, and 4 days to come back, for a total of 123 flight hours. #avgeek #PanAm This tweet was posted on December 06, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "TURF Fever" by Kevin Gordon. Michael Chicago, the son of a #Filipino immigrant mother and an alcoholic father, finds an escape from a difficult home life through #Turfing, a form of street dancing with roots in #Oakland. https://t.co/x8A4XtXbB2 #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/Wn1hS2tdYY This tweet was posted on December 09, 2019.

#PanAm pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America in the late 1920s and early 1930s. #PAA began service in Central America with the Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor, a robust, three-engine, twelve-passenger airliner affectionately known as the “Tin Goose.” #PanAmCentralAmerica This tweet was posted on December 12, 2019.

Harvey Bernard Milk (1930–78) was a visionary human rights leader, a groundbreaking political luminary, and a seminal figure of the LGBTQ rights movement. See “#HarveyMilk: Messenger of Hope” on display post-security in Terminal 1. https://t.co/eGYmHGjUIn #HarveyMilkExhibition This tweet was posted on December 13, 2019.

Barry McGee’s works are inspired by the urgency of contemporary street culture and his background in letterpress printing lends itself to a zen-like understanding of composition, context, pattern, line, and color. #BarryMcGee This tweet was posted on December 16, 2019.

NOW PLAYING: "Sweetheart Dancers" by Ben-Alex Dupris. Sean and Adrian, a #Ute and #Navajo #twospirit couple challenge perceptions of identity through their participation in Sweetheart Dance competitions at #powwows across the United States. https://t.co/mxbnUykr0O #VideoArtsSFOM https://t.co/1LW43r9IR9 This tweet was posted on November 26, 2019.

RT @airandspace: Today in 1910: Helene Dutrieu became the first Belgian woman to receive a pilot's license. 🇧🇪 She was known as the "girl h… This tweet was posted on November 25, 2019.

Shaped much like a helicopter, #dragonflies use direct flight muscles—muscles attached directly to the wings—to pull their wings up and down. However, because of how these muscles are attached, the wings cannot fold flat over their backs. #IntriguingInsects This tweet was posted on November 25, 2019.