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Not only did Beverly Carlson take a flight on Leap Day during a Leap Year, she also flew across the equator on a Qantas Empire Airways Boeing 707. An old maritime shipboard tradition was to celebrate crewmembers' and passengers' first passages over the equator. #LeapDay This tweet was posted on February 29, 2024.

Our newest exhibition "A Cut Above: Airplane Models from the SFO Museum Collection" is now on display in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall. On display, are 18 outstanding examples of airliner models from SFO Museum’s aviation collection. This tweet was posted on March 04, 2024.

“The activism keeps me young. It really does. But I love my age, and I love when I can mentor somebody else. I love it because – and I never thought I'd say this – my age gives me a perspective that youth denied me.” Alexis, 64, Chicago, IL, 2014 #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on March 01, 2024.

In 1943, Asawa received a scholarship to go to Milwaukee State Teachers College in Wisconsin (now @UWM). However, Asawa was denied a prerequisite internship because of racism against Japanese Americans. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #RuthAsawa This tweet was posted on July 11, 2023.

Persona_1” represents the artist. A virtual gaming character, with a name, age, job, and friends, appears in “Persona_2.” #StudentArt #Constitution This tweet was posted on July 07, 2023.

The Boeing 307 “Stratoliner” was the first commercial airliner to have a pressurized cabin. This 1940s postcard shows a weather chart advertising the “Stratoliner” which was able to fly at an altitude of over 30,000 feet, above bad weather and turbulence. #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 10, 2023.

Arnaldo Pomodoro first trained as an architect and was also a jewelry designer prior to becoming a sculptor. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.

Marquis then places the paper into the glacial runoff and distributes nearby rocks, ice chunks, and handfuls of glacial silt across the receptive surface. Under the sun, the cyanotype exposes, and the melting edge of a glacier draws itself. #JonathanMarquis #Downwaste This tweet was posted on July 14, 2023.

She was a lifelong advocate for art education, and in 1982, she helped found a public arts high school in San Francisco, renamed Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in 2010. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #RuthAsawa This tweet was posted on July 11, 2023.

The exposed area of “Cilindro Costruito” reveals a complex, multi-faceted interiority that contrasts with the highly polished, smooth surface. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.

Tokyo-based director and animator Hideki Inaba’s “Flow“ combines 2D animation with 3D effects to create a kaleidoscopic portrait of nature’s constant state of flux. #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/tDYdumG0pZ This tweet was posted on July 13, 2023.

“Cilindro Costruito”(Constructed Cylinder) is a sixteen-foot tall columnar form with an erratic vertical fissure, frozen in the process of eroding, that runs the length of the sculpture. #ArnaldoPomodoro #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 12, 2023.

Celebrated Oakland-born Chinese American artist Dong Kingman (1911-2000) was a master of watercolor landscape paintings. In the 1970s and 80s, his watercolor paintings of famous landmarks and cities graced the covers of Pan American’s first and business class menus. #52Objects This tweet was posted on July 17, 2023.

Directed by the Paris-based duo öM, "Since I Learned to Walk" explores a team of young French women athletes whose passion for football, the most played sport in the world, feels like a “dance” of eleven teammates or sisters. #VideoArtsSFO #WomensWorldCup https://t.co/Q63iDE8tR8 This tweet was posted on July 20, 2023.

Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals. #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on July 18, 2023.

To make a cyanotype for "Downwaste," Marquis coats a sheet of paper with cyanotype emulsion and hikes with it in a lightproof container through Glacier National Park to the melting edge of one of the twenty-six remaining glaciers. #JonathanMarquis #Downwaste #photography This tweet was posted on July 14, 2023.

menu: Pan American World Airways; 1986 Gift of the Pan Am Association 2000.058.1136 a b https://t.co/9YIfKCQEEP This tweet was posted on July 17, 2023.

“I hosted a one-day retreat for transgender and genderqueer people about spiritual practices and sources of strength. It was a really positive experience, seeing people feel welcome in that space. I am looking forward to continuing this work" - David #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on July 18, 2023.

See “June Schwarcz: Unconventional Enamels,” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/UwJlkZOK5e A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. #UnconventionalEnamels This tweet was posted on July 21, 2023.

What a beautiful bag for your motion discomfort! Did you know we have over 600 airsickness bags on our online database? From advertisements, instructions, patterns, or logos, these bags feature a wide array of graphic design. See more: https://t.co/s1VJFyvHqH #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 24, 2023.

𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 closed San Francisco Opera’s first season in 1923. Considered a 19th–century operatic masterpiece, the dramatic plot of 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 is centered around a prophetic curse that ends in tragedy. #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on July 25, 2023.

Filmed at Les Caryatides, Guyancourt, France, French director Christopher Hanany paints a striking portrait of Sofia Ramdan, a woman born without arms, who explains that “beauty is equivalent to self-acceptance.” #VideoArts #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/9iW6yaxGEA This tweet was posted on July 27, 2023.

Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on July 25, 2023.

After finalizing a pattern in paper, Schwarcz crafted the shape from thin copper foil by cutting, folding, gathering, and stitching with copper wire—almost treating the material like fabric. #UnconventionalEnamels #JuneSchwarcz #5WomenArtists #InternationalWomensDay This tweet was posted on March 08, 2024.

Alicia McCarthy is a key member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990’s in San Francisco and drew inspiration from graffiti, street art, and the use of non-traditional materials. #AliciaMcCarthy #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 06, 2024.

In creating “MMXX,” McCarthy worked closely with Lineman Architectural Glass in Oakland to translate her distinctive aesthetics of repetition, variation, and chance into glass using a combination of techniques. #AliciaMcCarthy #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 06, 2024.

A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See "Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions" on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 https://t.co/y7scUBG0d4 #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.

A very special thank you to Forrest L. Merrill for making this exhibition possible. See “June Schwarcz: Unconventional Enamels,” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/UwJlkZOK5e #UnconventionalEnamels #JuneSchwarcz #5WomenArtists This tweet was posted on March 08, 2024.

After weaving a linen sample, Sekimachi realized she could produce 3D forms using a nylon monofilament material (now commonly known as fishing line) that DuPont introduced in 1959. #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.

Fiber artist Kay Sekimachi’s series of monofilament sculptures began in 1963 as an experiment to weave a wall hanging in multiple, translucent layers. https://t.co/y7scUBG0d4 #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #Weaving #5WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on March 11, 2024.

Schwarcz then submerged the form in her electroplating tank, which deposited a layer of metal that strengthened the vessel. In later years, Schwarcz substituted copper screen for foil, drawn to the screen for its lighter weight and fabric-like qualities. #UnconventionalEnamels This tweet was posted on March 08, 2024.

"...And there I was, a high-level manager, being treated totally differently after I transitioned." Stephanie, 64, St. Louis, MO, 2014 Read more from Stephanie here: https://t.co/53gHHTP32j #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on August 02, 2023.

Following Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 transatlantic flight with a J-5 installed in his Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis, numerous other aviators used the J-5 on record-breaking distance and duration flights. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on August 01, 2023.

In 1928, the J-5-equipped Fokker F.VIIb/3m Southern Cross was piloted by Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm on a 7,200-mile, three-stage, transpacific route from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia, one of the longest flights using a J-5 engine. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on August 01, 2023.

This canvas artwork is a one-of-a-kind keepsake that commemorates the closure of Pan American World Airways’ Berlin base in 1991. #52Objects #PanAm #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 31, 2023.

With a range of 1,500 miles, passengers on a DC-3 could expect to spend long durations of time seated in the cabin, particularly on transcontinental flights. #AirlinerChairs #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 28, 2023.