Current Exhibitions

Riding the Rails
Marin's Historic Trains
November 9, 2007 – January 10, 2009 - Extended!

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Marking 100 years since the historic consolidation of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) in 1907, Riding the Rails presents the fascinating story of trains in Marin County and celebrates the railroad boom from the first tracks laid by pioneer railroad companies in the 1870s through the bustling days of the NWP passenger and freight service ending in the 1970s. >> more

Presented in collaboration with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Historical Society.

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A Life Surrounding a Cabin:
Dorothea Lange at Steep Ravine
Dorothea Lange photographs from the collection of the Oakland Museum of California

Exhibition tour:
Bolinas Museum and Stinson Beach Library
June 28 – August 17, 2008
(The exhibition is presented concurrently at the Bolinas Museum and Stinson Beach Library)
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Passengers in gravity car, 1905.
Inset: Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Scenic Railway time card, n.d. (MHM collection)

Sausalito ferry terminal and North Pacific Coast Railroad yards, c. 1892. (NWPRRHS Archives)

Dorothea Lange, Untitled, 1961
Copyright the Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, The City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.