iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Join us for an exclusive VIP Reception on Dec 13 where you'll: ✦ Mingle with master woodworkers ✦ Enjoy elegant food & drinks ✦ Celebrate extraordinary craftsmanship. Normally reserved for $500+ Patron members, we're opening this event to supporters who give $250+ by Nov 30 museumsc.org/donate

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

These two trunks hold powerful stories of movement and trade. The red trunk journeyed through Russia and once served as a step at a Sitka outpost, part of the Russian expansion that led to Fort Ross on the Sonoma Coast in 1812 ⁠

021

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Part 3. Though the formal school lasted only a few years, Wildenhain remained for decades, teaching pottery. ⁠ Pond Farm’s story is a testament to Sonoma County as a refuge for visionaries, a place where art, history, and resilience intertwine.⁠

021

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Part 2. Their travels to Europe in 1939 brought them to potter Marguerite Wildenhain, a Bauhaus-trained artist fleeing Nazi Germany, along with metalworker Victor Ries and fiber artist Trude Guermonprez. Together, they helped shape Pond Farm’s short‑lived but influential school.⁠ ⁠

010

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Part 1. Near Guerneville, Pond Farm was founded in 1949 by architect Gordon Herr and writer Jane Herr as a school and sanctuary for artists. Inspired by the “back‑to‑the‑land” movement, they envisioned a rural colony where artists of all disciplines could create and teach away from urban pressures.⁠

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

We’re proud to announce an important recent addition to the Museum’s permanent collection: “Collection" by Chester Arnold. ⁠ ⁠ Come experience this monumental canvas - more than 8 feet high! - in our Collections Gallery. ⁠

041

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Join us on June 28 from 5–7PM for the opening of Bruce Johnson: Sculptor—a powerful tribute to one of Sonoma County’s most visionary artists.⁠

082

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Jack Stuppin, Summer, Elephant Mountain, 2010, oil on canvas, Gift of Diane Stuppin in memory of Jack Stuppin.⁠ ⁠

030

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

How do you save a historic post office from demolition?⁠ ⁠ You move it, stone by stone, all 1,700 tons of it, two blocks out of harm’s way.⁠ ⁠

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Part 2. Activists, artists, and environmentalists united to halt the project, employing satire, protest, and people power to amplify their voices.⁠ They turned Reddy into a symbol of resistance, flipping his grin into a symbol of protest. The plant was never built, and Bodega Head was saved.

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Part 1. Meet Reddy Kilowatt, once the cheerful face of PG&E 🔌 But during the early 1960s, as PG&E pushed to build a nuclear power plant right on the edge of Bodega Head, a seismically active cliff above the Pacific — locals weren’t having it.

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Join us tomorrow from 11:30 am-1:30 pm at the Museum to see some visiting feathered friends as part of our Second Saturday program. Free admission all day long!

Flyer from the Museum of Sonoma County for their upcoming Free Second Saturday programs which will feature visiting birds from The Bird Rescue Center from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm on June 14th, July 12th, and August 9th. Basic Sketching materials will be available. The flyer features one of the Bird Rescue Centers ambassador owls.

021

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Our newest interactive installation, The Tasting Table, invites you to explore the world of wine through touch, taste, and technology. Join us Fridays through Sundays until June 8. Don’t miss your chance to experience wine like never before!⁠ ⁠

000

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This exhibition honors the legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the oldest and most influential fine arts school on the West Coast, which shut its doors in 2022 after 150 years of dynamic art making. Stop by the Museum of Sonoma County to catch it before it’s gone on June 8th.

011

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🍷 Introducing The Wine Experience at the Museum of Sonoma County!⁠ We’re excited to unveil our newest interactive installation: The Tasting Table. Join us Fridays through Sundays, May 17 – June 8, and discover wine like never before.⁠ ⁠ ⁠

021

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

📬 We’re turning into a Post Office for a day!⁠ ⁠This Saturday, 5/10, from 11 AM to 2:30 PM, you can send mail from the museum, participate in scavenger hunts, make paper airplanes, create art, and more!⁠ ⁠ 💌 Free admission all day! ⁠

020

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Featuring a stunning ¾-scale model of the plane that made the world’s first airmail delivery—right here in Sonoma County—this exhibit celebrates 175+ years of local postal history.

031

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Meet Jenny! She’s our Membership & Development Associate here at the Museum of Sonoma County — and she’s part of what makes this place so special.

031

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Located in the heart of downtown Santa Rosa, the Museum of Sonoma County is housed in the historic 1910 post office—a building that has witnessed generations of change.

031

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Explore Sonoma County as it was in 1867 ⏳⁠ ⁠ This beautifully detailed wall map by A.B. Bowers is the earliest standalone map of Sonoma County.

011

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

UNRULY: Come see it at the Museum of Sonoma County through June 8, 2025.⁠ ⁠ This bold new exhibit honors the legacy of SFAI—once the oldest and most influential fine arts school on the West Coast—through the work of 18 North Bay artists who studied or taught there.⁠

011

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The Museum of Sonoma County is celebrating 40 years!⁠

122

Museum of Sonoma County @museumsc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

✈️ What’s that airplane doing here?! It’s in the Mail! 📬⁠ ⁠ Opened April 12 at the Museum of Sonoma County, this new exhibit features a stunning ¾-scale model of the first-ever airmail plane—flown right here in 1911 from Petaluma to Santa Rosa.⁠

021