(IN SHORT) The Pan Am Historical Foundation has announced a generous donation of its extensive film archive, which spans over 60 years of aviation history, to SFO Museum. The corporate film library, collected by Pan American World Airways from its inception in 1927 until its closure in 1991, comprises more than 700 titles and hundreds… Read the full press release
New Exhibition Based on Extensive Interviews Provides Insight into the Experience of Serving Aboard the Commercial Airliners that Flew Thousands of Troops To and From Vietnam SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 2019-Sep-25 — /Travel PR News/ — Freedom Bird. For the Vietnam generation of U.S. military veterans, this phrase meant only one thing; the aircraft that brought… Read the full press release
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 2019-Jan-24 — /Travel PR News/ — Shapers are artisans who create surfboards from shaping materials such as foam and wood. By pairing iconic shapers with select sources of rare wood, Larry Fuller (b. 1954) has assembled a collection of boards that illustrate the progression of surfboard design through a common medium. Fuller… Read the full press release
New exhibition of twelve images documenting the historic Monterey International Pop Music Festival celebrates the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s Summer of Love SAN FRANCISCO, 2017-May-04 — /Travel PR News/ — SFO Museum is pleased to partner with photographer Elaine Mayes to present twelve images from her historic documentation of the Monterey International Pop Music… Read the full press release
New exhibition features a rich assortment of Arts and Crafts furnishings from the early twentieth century, from Gustav Stickley textiles to Dirk van Erp copper and art pottery by Rookwood and Paul Revere Pottery San Francisco, 2017-Apr-22 — /Travel PR News/ — The Arts and Crafts movement emerged in England in the 1880s and reached… Read the full press release
Airports Council International-North America honors Airport for Museum exhibition brochures SAN FRANCISCO, 2016-Nov-08 — /Travel PR News/ — Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA), which represents governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports across the United States and Canada, recently honored SFO with their 2016 Excellence in Airport Marketing, Communications, and Customer Service Award for… Read the full press release
New photography exhibition highlights early aviation at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition SAN FRANCISCO, 2015-2-23 — /Travel PR News/ — Rarely seen images of the hugely popular aeronautical programs presented at San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair are on view at SFO Museum. Twenty-one recently created black and white gelatin silver prints made from the vintage glass plate… Read the full press release
New exhibition features a series of images by Chris McCaw that take photography back to its primal beginnings SAN FRANCISCO, 2013-06-11 — /travelprnews.com/ — SFO Museum is pleased to present Sunburn by photographer Chris McCaw. Sunburn comprises twelve one-of-a-kind gelatin-silver, black-and-white photographs in which the sun has burnt its path onto light-sensitive negatives during sunrise on the… Read the full press release