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Lawler included airliners flying over the locations, juxtaposing the technological triumph of the airplane with historical panoramas. In his depiction of Rio de Janeiro, Lawler placed a Sikorsky S-42 flying over Christ the Redeemer with Sugarloaf Mountain. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on May 28, 2024.

The next year, the video won the Shorty Award for Best Use of Video in a Social Media Campaign. It set a new standard in safety videos for the airline industry, with numerous other carriers following Virgin America’s example and producing humorous and entertaining safety videos. This tweet was posted on May 29, 2024.

CALL FOR ARTISTS! Are you a filmmaker? Interested in screening your film for an international audience? SFO Museum reviews exhibition proposals from artists and filmmakers on a rolling basis. https://t.co/18M0ivIyMr #VideoArtsSFO This tweet was posted on May 30, 2024.

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 June 03, 2024.

Introduced in 1964, the Boeing 727 was a medium-range jetliner designed to serve regional airports with shorter runways. Beginning in the early 1970s, PSA offered Boeing 727 interiors in peach, pink, & magenta, similar to the colors featured on their liveries at the time. #AvGeek This tweet was posted on June 05, 2024.

SFO Museum is proud to celebrate #Pride Month with 4 Pride themed films. In this endearing documentary, German director Lukas Tielke provides a view of the simple and beautiful lives of Pedro and Flavio, an Italian couple of 30 years in their dream countryside home. #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/qd4Ti5ve72 This tweet was posted on June 06, 2024.

VERY DEFINITELY NOT A SECRET! Did you know that SFO Museum has a dedicated collections storage facility that houses a portion of our aviation collection? Check out this episode of Inside SFO to get a glimpse inside our collection storage facility. https://t.co/dkM7GCaKHK This tweet was posted on June 10, 2024.

Video Arts is currently programming 4 new films each month that are 20 minutes or less in duration. Due to our operation in a public space, Video Arts does not program work that features overt sexual or violent content. Interested? Submit your work here: https://t.co/18M0ivIyMr This tweet was posted on May 30, 2024.

Harold Bixby, a midwestern businessman, started working for Pan American Airways in 1933 and helped manage PAA’s partnership in the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). This image illustrates the Chinese-American partnership that made up the CNAC. #BixbyCollection This tweet was posted on June 18, 2024.

San Francisco-based director Aurora Brachman captures an honest and emotional conversation of a child revealing a secret to their mother: “I’m not a girl.” #VideoArtsSFO #Pride #Joychild #AuroraBrachman https://t.co/tRrrmtT46h This tweet was posted on June 20, 2024.

The Unknown Museum, curated by Mickey McGowan, was conceived as part conceptual art, part hands-on experience. When confronted with so many common objects from years past, visitors often asked McGowan, to see a specific item, and then proceeded to search for it. #UnknownMuseum This tweet was posted on June 21, 2024.

Today is the grand opening of the final phase of Harvey Milk Terminal 1! The new area in HMT1 includes: new concessions, 2 new boarding gates, a new security check point, a walkway connecting HMT1 to T2, 11 SFAC public artworks, 2 new Museum galleries, and more! #SFOHistory This tweet was posted on June 17, 2024.

A very special thank you to Mickey McGowan for making this exhibition possible. See “Recollections… from the Unknown Museum” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2. https://t.co/FFFoijZTJd #UnknownMuseum #MickeyMcGowan #BayArea #BayAreaHistory This tweet was posted on June 21, 2024.

Artist Paul Madonna is known for blending poetic and poignant text with lush and inviting hand-drawn cityscapes. This panoramic view from SF’s Excelsior district depicts two perpendicular streets descending from a hilltop; the houses and trees ebbing & flowing in a graceful wave. This tweet was posted on July 02, 2024.

Carved human or animal forms, heads, or faces in high or low relief animate instruments. For instance, the shell of a drum may display carved human forms, while a sculptural figure adorns the handle of a bell or the top of a harp lute. #ArtoftheAfricanInstrument This tweet was posted on July 01, 2024.

Field crafted several airliner models as mementos for his father, a former pilot for Continental. Field also initially worked for the airlines in maintenance until the demand for his craft enabled him to pursue model making as a full-time occupation. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on June 24, 2024.

Gary Field endeavored to create a highly accurate interior based on the original Continental DC-7B cabin details and amenities, with seats, luggage racks, lavatories, a galley, passengers, and Continental’s signature Coach Lounge all individually cast in plastic. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on June 24, 2024.

SF's 54th Pride Parade is 6/30. #OnThisDay in 1978, Harvey Milk, the 1st openly gay elected official in CA, gave 1 of his most powerful speeches “My Name is Harvey Milk and I want to recruit you” at the Gay Freedom Day, a predecessor of today’s Pride Parade. #HarveyMilkExhibition This tweet was posted on June 25, 2024.

San Francisco-based director Amanda Beane displays a beautiful story of two dancers struggling with the flip sides of homophobia. Through dance, the duet learns how to break societal norms and come to terms with platonic intimacy. #VideoArtsSFO #Pride #IJustWannaDance https://t.co/WIOGKWcr9P This tweet was posted on June 27, 2024.

The process evoked familiarity, comfort, and was thought-provoking. McGowan recalled a “special kind of laughter” heard from visitors, “not like you hear at comedy shows, but more like some incredible kind of therapeutic release.” #UnknownMuseum This tweet was posted on June 21, 2024.

To create metal models, Field first carved a positive form in wood based on aircraft plans. From this form he created a mold to cast the model in metal, usually aluminum. In cutaway models he left portions of the fuselage open to insert the interior & add plastic viewing windows. This tweet was posted on June 24, 2024.

"I use traditional tapestry techniques modified for my own personal needs. Rather than working in rigid color areas and interlocking weft, I try for a more fluid effect by [using] extra weft inserts and overlapping threads.” —Kay Sekimachi, 1959 #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi This tweet was posted on July 08, 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/6dR9pasyoc #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi #weaving This tweet was posted on July 08, 2024.

Bay Area-based animator Alisha Liu shares a relatable story about a lovely Sunday afternoon picnic in the park that is interrupted by deep contemplation that spirals into existential dread. #VideoArtsSFO https://t.co/vXaFGRovvu This tweet was posted on July 11, 2024.

Did you know SFO Museum has an exhibition prep area where we can mockup exhibitions on a 1:1 scale? As a non-traditional museum, we create everything at an off-site location, then set it up like a dress rehearsal for easy installation once it is time to install in the airport. This tweet was posted on July 10, 2024.

During the postwar era, Pan American World Airways expanded its services throughout the globe and replaced its flying boat fleet with the latest land-based airliners. Mexico City had been a Pan American destination since the early 1930s. #AirwaysArtists This tweet was posted on July 12, 2024.

It is your last week to see "Kay Sekimachi: Weaving Traditions!" Fiber artist, Kay Sekimachi, considered a “weaver’s weaver,” has created an oeuvre of decorative, figurative, and abstract textile art and sculpture that is without parallel. #KaySekimachiWeaving #KaySekimachi This tweet was posted on July 08, 2024.

Mark von Arenburg created this dramatic Pan American poster, featuring a Douglas DC-6 flying past an Aztec warrior figure, most likely inspired by reenactors on the Zócalo in Mexico City, and the sculpture of Quetzalcoatl from the Temple of the Feathered Serpent at Teotihuacan. This tweet was posted on July 12, 2024.

The phrase “Here You Are / Are You Here” is a palindrome which flows throughout the scene, from side to side and foreground to background, prompting viewers traveling from all directions to consider not just where they are in space, but also where they are in time. #PublicArt This tweet was posted on July 02, 2024.

Introduced in 1951, the TWA (Trans World Airlines) Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation was a larger, long-range upgrade of the Constellation. The L-1049G Super Constellation was introduced four years later. #CutAboveModels This tweet was posted on July 16, 2024.

Mark Von Arenburg created this dramatic Australia and New Zealand poster featuring Sydney Harbour in the 1940s. It features many of the recognizable attractions of the New South Wales region, including a kookaburra sitting in a eucalyptus tree and a koala with its baby. This tweet was posted on July 15, 2024.

Representations of older transgender people are nearly absent from our culture and those that do exist are often one-dimensional. Each portrait in “To Survive on this Shore” includes a powerful interview with each of the featured individuals. #ToSurviveOnThisShore This tweet was posted on October 22, 2024.

📸: TWA (Trans World Airlines) Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation model aircraft 1990s Gary Field scale 1:32 metal, paint Collection of SFO Museum Gift of the San Francisco Aeronautical Society 2018.127.007 a c L2024.0401.002 a d https://t.co/IsW5ZYuWGt This tweet was posted on July 16, 2024.

📸: Map of Haiti Courtesy of Haiti Open R2023.1007.001 Georges Liautaud working on a sculpture c. 1960s Photograph by William Grigsby Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti Courtesy of the Cavin-Morris Gallery ©Randall Morris R2023.1004.002 #HaitianMetal This tweet was posted on October 16, 2024.

#OnThisDay in 1972, the first Airbus A300 took off on its maiden flight. The A300 was the first wide-body airliner produced by Airbus Industries. The two-engine configuration amounted to reduced operating costs for airlines and was a major reason for its success. #52Posters This tweet was posted on October 28, 2024.

At the time of its completion, the bridge was the longest and tallest suspension bridge ever constructed. Because of the hazardous construction conditions, rigorous safety measures were instituted, such as a safety net that stretched underneath the bridge. #SFCityoftheWorld This tweet was posted on October 25, 2024.