Permanent Exhibit Gallery Opening:

Article Source: San Mateo County History Museum

FREE EVENT DESCRIPTION
Permanent Exhibit Gallery Opening:
Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County
Saturday, June 29, 2019, noon until 3:30 p.m.

ABOVE: Mural in the Land of Opportunity exhibit. Mural artist: Mona Caron

The San Mateo County History Museum announces the re-opening of its permanent exhibit gallery: Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County. The gallery has undergone an extensive renovation and will open to the public for the first time at noon on Saturday, June 29 with a public celebration that will last until 3:30 p.m. This unveiling will be a FREE event.

A committee with representatives from many of the cultures portrayed in the Gallery has assisted museum staff create the new exhibits and is helping to organize the celebration.

Entertainment in the Museum’s rotunda will include:
12:15 Drum Revolution Japanese Taiko Drums
1:00 Accordion music from the Peninsula Italian American Social Club
1:30 Casa Círculo Cultural traditional Mexican dancers
2:00 Irish fiddler Ayden Graham
2:30 Filipino Kulintang music by Conrad Benedicto and his students
12:00-3:00 The Peninsula Italian American Social Club will demonstrate and organize Bocce Ball games in the Museum’s historic Courtroom “A”

Food and drink will include:
Lemonade, sweet tea and punch from the African American community
Irish Soda Bread
Spring Rolls from the Organization of Chinese Americans
A taste of food from the Peninsula Italian American Social Club

New components of the Gallery will include stories about the migration of people from other states - - not just other countries. This enables the Museum to include African American accounts from the “Great Migration” between World War I and 1970. A new computer kiosk entitled “Tell Us Your Story” will allow all visitors to the Museum the opportunity to add their own family’s experience about coming to California to the exhibition. Another kiosk will act to document discrimination on the Peninsula.

Major funding for the renovation came from San Mateo County (a Measure K grant through Supervisor Warren Slocum), the Bothin Foundation and Umang and Ruth Gupta.

The San Mateo County History Museum is located at 2200 Broadway within the 109-year-old “Old Courthouse” in Redwood City. It features exhibits related to the use of natural resources, suburban development, ethnic experience and entrepreneurial achievement on the Peninsula from the time of the Ohlone Indian through today. The Museum is open every day except Monday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information go towww.historysmc.org or call 650-299-0104.

Current changing exhibits at the History Museum:
Our Story: Transformation of a Courthouse & Twenty Years in Redwood City (through October 27, 2019)
After Promontory: 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroading (opens May 10, 2019)

Sarah Phelps

Development Associate
San Mateo County Historical Association
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
Ph: 650.299.0104, ext. 224 | Fax: 650.299.0141
sarah@historysmc.org | www.historysmc.org

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