Landing
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Sculpture court
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Sky Bridge Get the Map on Your Phone! Scan QR or visit sjmusart.org/map
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Motherboards Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot a small ocean swallowed
Charlotte Wendel Education Center
Museum Store
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Programs + Events
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El Cafecito
IN THE GALLERIES Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
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IN THE GALLERY Koret Gallery: Art Learning Lab
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Main entrance + exit to Museum, Store, and Café Museum experience ⋅ Admissions + membership ⋅ Complimentary coat check + accessibility equipment
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Restrooms (groups please use lower level) ⋅ Baby-changing stations
Reading station ⋅ Scan QR for Museum content, including a free audio guide: sjmusart.org/guide Look for Art Learning Labs in the galleries, filled with creative exploration + art-making activities!
Keep food + drink outside of the galleries
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Food + espresso drinks + bar: sjmusart.org/cafe
Trash + recycle bins ⋅ Water fountains
CARING for the ART TOGETHER. Please...
No large bags in the galleries (complimentary coat check available)
Wheelchair access ramp ⋅ Elevator ⋅ Stairs
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WHEELCHAIR ACCESS RAMP
Artwork or gallery. Photography permitted; No flash Floor facilities Public area ⋅ Available for private parties: sjmusart.org/plan-your-event No access ⋅ Gallery closed for installation
Pencils only. Pens, markers + paints not allowed in the galleries Photography permitted; No flash, please No climbing pedestals or crossing floor stanchions; Keep a safe distance (~2ft)
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Read more about exhibits on view Scan QR or visit sjmusart.org/on-view
Join a free gallery tour All visitors are welcome to drop in for these docent-led tours, which begin in the lobby: Thursdays at 5pm; Fridays–Sundays at 1 and 2:30pm.
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Motherboards
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Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot
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a small ocean swallowed
through Sunday, January 10, 2027 ⋅ sjmusart.org/motherboards Motherboards explores the foundational contributions of women’s work to the technology industry. Featuring artists from California and beyond, the exhibition maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and garages to vital work performed at looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.
through Sunday, October 18, 2026 ⋅ sjmusart.org/plot Working with land-based materials, Christine Howard Sandoval excavates the conflicting knowledge systems and histories that are held in archives, architecture, and the land itself. Move the Plot brings the artist’s practice home to San José, where she grew up.
through Sunday, February 14, 2027 ⋅ sjmusart.org/ocean a small ocean swallowed presents six artists whose work embodies states of ecological entwinement, poetically and experimentally reorienting human relationships to water. Presented in conjunction with SJMA’s Sowing Sustainability initiative, the exhibition threads together plant, animal, and human life and celebrates water as a model of interconnectivity across space and time.
ARTWORK INSTALLATIONS Questions? Ask one of our Gallery Staff in the galleries or at the Admissions Desk.
Kelly Akashi, Cultivator, 2022 ⋅ Sculpture Court ⋅ Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/cultivator
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Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection Ongoing exhibition ⋅ sjmusart.org/tending Tending and Dreaming launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.
ARTWORK INSTALLATIONS Pae White, Noisy Blushes, 2020 ⋅ Lobby ⋅ Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/noisy-blushes Julie Chang, The Valley of Hearts Delight, 2017 ⋅ El Cafecito ⋅ Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/delight Huma Bhabha, Receiver, 2019 ⋅ Sculpture Court ⋅ Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/receiver Chester Arnold, Colosseum, 1998 ⋅ Landing ⋅ Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/colosseum
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Koret Gallery: Art Learning Lab Ongoing ⋅ sjmusart.org/lab Art Learning Lab is a dedicated exhibition space inspired by Sowing Creativity, the Museum’s award-winning STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education program. Featuring a diverse selection of work from the permanent collection, the Art Learning Lab reveals how artists engage cross-disciplinary concepts in their approach to art-making.
San José Museum of Art (SJMA) ⋅ 110 South Market Street, San José, CA 95113 ⋅ sjmusart.org