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Free First Thursdays at Berkeley Art Museum

At Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley

🛋️"one of the most comfortable museums" with lounge seating
🎬Film screenings not included in free admission
🎓Gallery staff are UC Berkeley students, ask them anything

UC Berkeley's art and film museum throws open its galleries for free every first Thursday. Expect rotating contemporary exhibitions, from monumental fiber art to quilt history, all steps from Downtown Berkeley BART.

Rotating exhibitions
Film & art
Family-friendly
Budget-friendly

They recommend it:

Thursday, November 5, 11:00 AM

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  • Rotating exhibitions
  • Film & art
  • Family-friendly
  • Budget-friendly
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
  • Downtown Berkeley
  • Berkeley

Coming up at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

  • Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

    Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

    Wed Nov 4

    Utopian visions across centuries

  • Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

    Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

    Wed Nov 4

    Feminist art of resistance

  • BAMPFA/Garden Talk: MAREN HASSINGER: Living Moving Growing

    BAMPFA/Garden Talk: MAREN HASSINGER: Living Moving Growing

    Wed Nov 4

    Nature-woven sculpture retrospective

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  • Leila Weefur: The Chapel of Becoming

    Leila Weefur: The Chapel of Becoming

    Wed, Nov 4 · 5:00 AM

    Mission District

    Devotional video & ceramics

  • Red Door Coffee

    Red Door Coffee

    Wed, Nov 4 · 8:00 AM

    Transbay

    Coffee with a gallery view

  • Treasures of the Pharaohs

    Treasures of the Pharaohs

    Wed, Nov 4 · 9:30 AM

    Inner Richmond

    Ancient Egyptian artifacts

  • Celebrating 25 Years at Paul Thiebaud Gallery

    Celebrating 25 Years at Paul Thiebaud Gallery

    Wed, Nov 4 · 10:00 AM

    North Beach

    Quarter-century of gallery highlights

  • ECCELLENZE ITALIANE. I VESTITI NUOVI DI PINOCCHIO

    ECCELLENZE ITALIANE. I VESTITI NUOVI DI PINOCCHIO

    Wed, Nov 4 · 10:00 AM

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    Pinocchio illustration exhibition

  • RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me

    RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me

    Wed, Nov 4 · 10:00 AM

    Transbay

    BTS star curates modern art

  • 250 Years, Indigenous Futures

    250 Years, Indigenous Futures

    Wed, Nov 4 · 10:30 AM

    Marina District

    Native American art exhibition

  • Panel Discussion | 250 Years, Indigenous Futures

    Panel Discussion | 250 Years, Indigenous Futures

    Wed, Nov 4 · 10:30 AM

    Marina District

    Contemporary Indigenous group show

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