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See “Japonisme: A Passion for Japan” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://t.co/CsNirkD88g #Japonisme #Japan #design #tile #ceramics #transferware This tweet was posted on February 07, 2023.

The works also a portrait of perseverance and resilience - about the future, the flourishing of a new life, the soil, rooted in possibility, Saar intends the work to be a beacon that welcomes new travelers to San Francisco #PublicArt #AlisonSaar #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 03, 2023.

This tile shows three cranes flying above waves, with a full moon and two clouds behind them. The cranes and waves are adapted from a Japanese pot that was displayed as a “jardinière” at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. #Japonisme #Japan #design #tile This tweet was posted on February 07, 2023.

“I want the audience to feel what I’m doing. There must be real activity going on…I believe that movement cannot be staid and studied. It must come from what the character is doing, and you must have something going on as a performer as well as a singer.” - Leontyne Price, 1973 This tweet was posted on February 06, 2023.

In 1963, American President Kennedy announced the launch of a government-funded SST program to compete with the Concorde project. Three airframe designs were selected for review: the North American Aviation NAC-60, the Boeing 733, and the Lockheed L-2000. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.

Lockheed’s SST design was similar the Concorde, both aircraft featuring a long nose section, a delta wing, and a long narrow body. By 1967, Lockheed constructed a full-size display of the L-2000 SST and was actively promoting the aircraft to major airlines. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on February 09, 2023.

RT @calmuseums: Looking for a new job at a California museum or cultural organization? Check out our Job Directory (updated every Wed): htt… This tweet was posted on February 08, 2023.

The contrasting hues, textures, & patterns of “Parallel Portions” come together to form a harmonious whole. With its strikingly juxtaposed bands of color, the painting upholds the possibility of living side-by-side in a celebration of our differences. #MikeHenderson This tweet was posted on February 08, 2023.

To create “Parallel Portions,” Henderson applied vibrant hues of purple and blue in multiple layers, building them up into a luscious impasto and scraping them off with a palette knife to reveal glimpses of color below. #BlackHistoryMonth #MikeHenderson This tweet was posted on February 08, 2023.

Clara Barck Welles founded the Kalo Shop in 1900 in Chicago. The name was chosen from a Greek word meaning “to make beautiful.” The Kalo Shop burgeoned into one of the most influential American handwrought silver manufacturers of the Arts and Crafts movement. #BarckWellesSilver This tweet was posted on June 09, 2023.

Did you know Bernard M. “Mike” Doolin, the fourth director of @flySFO was also an accomplished aviator? After serving as a pilot in during WWI, Doolin worked at Standard Oil and was frequently seen at SFO piloting a Boeing Model 40 and a Stearman 4 Junior Speedmail. #52Objects This tweet was posted on June 12, 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 #PrideMonth2023 #Pride This tweet was posted on June 06, 2023.

Event Alert! March 28, 2023, at 7PM PST: Join our curator Nicole and fashion designer Anthony Cruz Legarda for a talk on our recent exhibition on Pina textile lace! The talk will be ONLINE. Sign up here: https://t.co/3cbIucGItA This tweet was posted on February 10, 2023.

For 𝘚𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, Liang chose to create a “spiritual, abstract world,” he says, “what you would call the in-between, where it’s neither this world nor the next world... I don’t want to limit audiences in what they see.” #SFBalletAt90 @SFBallet #Ballet This tweet was posted on June 13, 2023.

In the 1940s, the double decker Convair Model 37 planned but was never put into production. Nevertheless, Pan American Airways, who ordered 15 airframes, produced these postcards to advertise the Model 37 as a “Preview of Tomorrow’s Flying Clipper.” #52Objects #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 05, 2023.

See "A New Woman: Clara Barck Welles, Inspiration & Influence in Arts & Crafts Silver" on display pre-security in the Mayor Edwin M. Lee International Terminal Departures Hall and online at: https://t.co/b287tgjRdW #BarckWellesSilver #Silver This tweet was posted on June 09, 2023.

We are saddened to learn about the passing of artist Jim Melchert. Melchert's piece "Riven/River," a fantastic example of his signature abstract expressionism style incorporated into ceramic tiles, is located the post-security connector between T1 and T2. https://t.co/ssCmemTyBl This tweet was posted on June 07, 2023.

Cheers to a happy Valentine’s Day! This beverage menu from United Air Lines from the 1960s features a Special Very Dry Martini-on-the-Rocks (Gin or Vodka). Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day? #UnitedAirLines #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 14, 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 February 14, 2023.

Fashionable and functional, this polyester tailored suit in the softer shade of #PanAm blue has a classic blazer with subtle cuff trim and was worn with a matching vest and ribbon bow tie. With two styles of optional headwear, the uniform was worn until 1991. #Adolfo #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.

Some of Schatz's lamps conducted electrical current through copper wire embedded in Plexiglas; this lamp utilizes a spiral-shaped copper tube as a base and channel for the lamp cord. #CaliforniaModernistWomen #ZaharaSchatz This tweet was posted on February 15, 2023.

What’s going on at the museum? We’re preparing for our newest exhibition celebrating the San Francisco Ballet. Featuring objects from San Francisco Ballet, our preparators are making mounts for pointe shoes, essential footwear for a dancer. #behindthescenes #ballet @sfballet This tweet was posted on February 13, 2023.

“As far back as I could remember, I've always felt like a boy… Back then I didn't know the word “transgender," ... And then when I explained how I felt to somebody, they said, "Oh, transgender…" So that's how I got to identify as transgender.“ – Preston #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on February 14, 2023.

In 1948, BCPA received the new, long-range, pressurized Douglas DC-6 airliner. For the long, forty-hour, multi-stop Southern Cross route, each aircraft was comfortably equipped with reclining seats, sleeping berths, and a lounge in the aft. #FlyingSouthernCross #AvGeek This tweet was posted on February 16, 2023.

The artist uses the basketball as a metaphor for the black body and its changing meaning throughout history. #PublicArt #DavidHuffman #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 17, 2023.

Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker Abi Cole follows @NewYorker ’s first Black, female cartoonist, Liz Montague, who sketches a world in which Black women are the main characters. #VideoArtsSFO #BlackHistoryMonth #LizMontague #AbiCole This tweet was posted on February 16, 2023.

By the late 1920s, Westinghouse began producing single Micarta props that could be attached to a two-bladed metal hub. The hub was designed to be pitch-adjustable on the ground #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.

Micarta is a plastic compound first developed around 1910 by George Westinghouse. Initially, it was fabricated by interleaving layers of Bakelite plastic with either paper or fabric and formed into a desired shape in a mold with heat and pressure. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.

Micarta was used in a broad range of products requiring a high degree of durability. As early as 1918, the Westinghouse Company was producing Micarta propellers for the U.S. Army. #EnduranceEngines This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.

These objects are rendered in an uncanny fashion with a sense of play, emotional intuition, and surrealism that provokes viewers to reimagine themselves and the way they view the world around them. #PublicArt #WoodyDeOthello #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 22, 2023.

“Time, Turn, and Light” by Woody De Othello depict ambiguous sets of hands interacting with everyday objects such as clocks, a flashlight, a candle, and a doorknob. #PublicArt #WoodyDeOthello #BlackHistoryMonth This tweet was posted on February 22, 2023.

A matching building for the complex airfield lighting system sat adjacent to the hangars, and by the end of the decade, two-way radio communications were required for all aircraft. #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on February 24, 2023.

A new administration and terminal building, designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, was also completed in 1937. The building included a four-story control tower, restaurant, cocktail lounge, and a grand passenger waiting room with terrazzo floors. #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on February 24, 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 February 24, 2023.

In the 1930s, as commercial aviation evolved into a more practical mode of transportation, San Francisco Airport launched a series of major improvements. By 1937, more than 790,000 sq ft of concrete runways, taxiways, and aircraft parking were in place. #MillsField #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on February 24, 2023.

RT @calmuseums: Looking for a new job at a California museum or cultural organization? Check out our Job Directory (updated every Wednesday… This tweet was posted on February 22, 2023.