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Learn more about @SFOpera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera #SFOpera #Opera This tweet was posted on January 06, 2023.

Robert Hudson (b. 1938), along with his childhood friend William T. Wiley, was a seminal figure in Bay Area Funk, a regional movement in the late 1950's-60's. Hudson has produced a large body of paintings and drawings during his distinguished career. #RobertHudson #PublicArt This tweet was posted on January 06, 2023.

📸: disposable obstetrical kit; 1970s SFO Museum 2014.097.001 a p https://t.co/5F1I4hOKZX This tweet was posted on January 03, 2023.

Kacper Kowalski is a photographer and aviator who has been observing and photographing landscapes from above for over twenty-five years. #photography #aerialphotography #KacperKowalski This tweet was posted on January 11, 2023.

Eileen Reynolds Curtis was a San Francisco Bay Area studio potter who was known for hand-thrown ceramics with unique and distinctive glazes. By 1945, Reynolds had established a pottery studio on Russian Hill in SF and was producing ceramics full-time. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

RT @NEDCCInfo: #ReadyOrNotCA recently visited the @SFOMuseum, which maintains a growing collection of 150,000 objects related to the histor… This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

Reynolds worked with native materials & developed unique glazes. Her semi-translucent glazes accentuated the natural qualities of clay. Perhaps the most striking was “Pebble White,” a textured glaze that bubbled in the kiln & created lava-like effects. #CaliforniaModernistWomen This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

San Franciscan Lincoln Beachey (1887–1915) performs in his biplane over the Panama-Pacific Intl Expo grounds in 1913. He was the first to perform a loop-the-loop in the U.S. and his repertoire of heart-stopping stunts made him the leading pioneer of aerial acrobatics #52Objects This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.

The Gorham Manufacturing Company, along with Tiffany & Company, was a leading manufacturer of precious metals at the height of Japonisme in the late 19th century. #Japonisme #Japan #Design This tweet was posted on January 18, 2023.

While the Concordes were flown at Mach 2 (over 1,300 mph) out over the Atlantic, Braniff could not exceed Mach 0.95 on the overland DFW–IAD leg. Service only lasted a year and a half and was canceled in June 1980. #Braniff #Concorde #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 14, 2023.

While the Concordes were flown at Mach 2 (over 1,300 mph) out over the Atlantic, Braniff could not exceed Mach 0.95 on the overland DFW–IAD leg. Service only lasted a year and a half and was canceled in June 1980. #Braniff #Concorde #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 13, 2023.

📸 2/2 : 3. model airplane: Braniff International, Concorde; 1970s Gift of Thomas G. Dragges 1999.061.058 a b This tweet was posted on January 14, 2023.

📸: glass negative: Panama-Pacific International Exposition; 1913 Gift of Edwin I. Power, Jr. and Linda L. Liscom 2010.282.066 a b https://t.co/sbTdq1kBNy #52Objects #LincolnBeachey #SFHistory This tweet was posted on January 17, 2023.

#Onthisday in 1929, Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways Inc.) was formed. As a joint venture between W. R. Grace & Co., a shipping and mining company founded in Peru, and Pan American Airways, each held half of the new airline’s stock. #Panagra #PanAm #AvGeek This tweet was posted on January 25, 2023.

Because of the heat caused by friction of incoming air at Mach 2 speeds, which could reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit, titanium was used to produce the compressor drums and blades, except for the last four high-pressure stages, which were made of a nickel alloy. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.

Designed by Louis Blériot and Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. In 1911, Earle Lewis Ovington carried the first U.S. airmail in a Blériot XI. #avgeek #BlériotXI This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.

Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore” by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individual. #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on January 20, 2023.

See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkCAiI #Japonisme #Japan #Design #Silver This tweet was posted on January 18, 2023.

The Concorde’s Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 engines were atypical for commercial airliners. Featuring a turbine-driven compressor that thrust heated, compressed air through a propelling nozzle, these engines were usually installed in military aircraft. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.

The Olympus 593 was developed jointly by Rolls-Royce of England and SNECMA of France. The engine featured low- and high-pressure compressors, which comprised seven stages each and were driven by a single-stage turbine. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on January 19, 2023.

“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 January 20, 2023.

📸: glass negative: Panama-Pacific International Exposition; 1915 Gift of Edwin I. Power, Jr. and Linda L. Liscom 2010.282.025 a b https://t.co/ob897QBA48 This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.

In one scene, two moons slowly travel across a large rising sun, and in another, a camera pans across a golden solarized wetland. #publicart #YorgoAlexopolus This tweet was posted on January 27, 2023.

RT @BoeingAirplanes: Introducing the last 747! 👑✈️ Here is a look at how we put together the final #QueenOfTheSkies. https://t.co/ngkPWwCT… This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.

The last commercial Boeing 747 is scheduled to be delivered today to Atlas Air from the Boeing Everett Factory. Introduced 53 years ago, the Boeing 747 created a whole new category of airliner, the wide-body jet. Have you ever flown on a 747? #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 31, 2023.

There are more than a few inexplicable objects in our museum collection but this tabletop model featuring an aircraft on top of a walrus is one of the more peculiar ones. From the late 1930s, would this novelty item look at home on your desk today? #52Objects This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.

Yorgo Alexopoulos creates paintings, time-based media artworks, and installations. He often synchronizes multiple monitors or projections in a dynamic ensemble to create an ever-changing, immersive spectacle. #publicart #YorgoAlexopolus This tweet was posted on January 27, 2023.

📸: poster: Hawaiian Airlines; 1974 Gift of Dennis A. Bennett 2010.273.004 https://t.co/nA1wetUioo This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.

📸: tabletop aircraft model; late 1930s Purchase 1997.80.01 a b https://t.co/M30gX3bUIw This tweet was posted on January 30, 2023.

Alison Saar's “Flourish” is a story of displacement and inclusion; a narrative of seeded with the adversity that migrants and refugees often experience upon arrival. #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.

For the next 4 years, 90,000 people signed up for a space trip and received these First Moon Flights Club cards. The card's back read, "Pan Am makes the going great: first in Latin America, first on the Atlantic, first on the Pacific, first round the world." #52Objects #PanAm This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.

In 1968, Juan Trippe, Pan Am's founder, announced the airline's "First Moon Flights" Club. "2001: A Space Odyssey" released that year featured an imagined Pan American operated spacecraft. #52Objects #PanAm This tweet was posted on February 06, 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 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #BlackHistoryMonth @SFOpera #SFOperaCentennial #LeontynePrice This tweet was posted on February 06, 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 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx @SFOpera #SFOperaCentennial This tweet was posted on February 01, 2023.

Saar intends the work to serve as a reminder of the common immigrant roots, the riches that thrives from diversity, as well as, from our collective experience. #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.

See “A Concerto is a Conversation” by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers in the Video Arts Gallery, located pre-security in the International Terminal, open daily from 7 am to 10 pm. Learn more about this month’s films at: https://t.co/s0oA7gcWli #VideoArtsSFO #KrisBowers @bgproudfoot This tweet was posted on February 02, 2023.