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The 1923 Fire: Berkeley’s First Wildfire Disaster
November 5, 2023 – March 23, 2024 Curator: Steven Finacom The early fall is “fire weather” season in Berkeley. Anyone who has lived in the town for a few years or more knows what this means. The weather turns warm, the typical pattern of cool breezes off San Francisco Bay slows and stalls, and hot,…
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Touching Ground, Putting Down Roots: Chinese in Berkeley
April 30 – September 30, 2023 The history of immigration to the United States is often portrayed as a great western movement of European peoples, across the Atlantic and then across the North American continent. But beginning with the California Gold Rush, the U.S. has also been populated by people moving east, across the Pacific…
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October 21: Eco-Berkeley
About the exhibit: Berkeley has a long history of environmental activism. The city’s environmentalists have not only taken important local action, but have also made significant contributions to the development of the national and international environmental movement. The exhibit provides a timeline stretching back to even before Berkeley residents worked with John Muir to form the Sierra…
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Oct. 21: New Exhibit Opening
Berkeley has a long history of environmental activism. The city’s environmentalists have not only taken important local action, but have also made significant contributions to the development of the national and international environmental movement. This remarkably productive history is the subject of the Berkeley Historical Society and Museum’s next exhibit, “Eco-Berkeley: A Legacy of Environmental…
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African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports, 1940–2010
The Berkeley Historical Society & Museum presents Year 3 of African Americans in Berkeley, building upon the foundation of African Americans in Berkeley: Four Families introduced in 2019 and African Americans in Berkeley’s History and Legacy presented in 2021. Highlights of Year 3 are significant contributions made by Berkeley African Americans in the worlds of art, entertainment, literature and sports…
A Window on the Past, "Exactly Opposite the Golden Gate"