Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director from 2008, succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.
The collection's first object: Flight into Egypt.
Sandstone statue of Ganesha, India, 10th century.
Joan Miró, Metamorphosis, mixed media, 1936, one of 15 works given to the museum in 2021 from the Richard and Mary L. Gray Collection.
BAMPFA's major retrospective in March 2019 of the work of Hans Hofmann, who was instrumental in the creation of the museum. Photo by Steven Saylor.
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley is also a founding member of the Association of American Universities. It has been regarded as one of the top universities in the world.
View from Memorial Glade of Sather Tower (the Campanile), the center of Berkeley
Sather Tower (the Campanile) looking out over San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais
The interior of the Hearst Mining Building, dedicated by Phoebe Hearst in honor of her late husband, George.
Doe Memorial Library
