Academic Year Hours:
11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday
Location:
Fine Arts Building, Room 203
Admission:
Free
Current Exhibition
Through My Father's Eyes: The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado
February 24 through May 4, 2024
Our Mission
We are a responsible steward of cultural heritage; a place of scholarship, community and engagement; and a space in which to appreciate the power of diverse communities in a globally-connected world. We create experiences that foster life-long learning, collaboration with and among diverse communities, and that encourage reflection about global society and our common humanity.
Background
In 2014, the Museum Studies Program reorganized and closed its former gallery in the Humanities Building to establish a new campus museum. Opened in 2018 in its new Fine Arts location, the Global Museum is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Liberal and Creative Arts (LCA) affiliated with the Museum Studies Program. The museum is one of several public spaces in Fine Arts, including the School of Art's Fine Arts Gallery and Martin Wong Undergraduate Gallery, Design and Industry's DesignSpace and Cinema's Coppola Theater.
Stewarding an expansive University collection of cultural heritage objects, we serve as a lab for Museum Studies, an academic resource for the campus, and a community space for the greater Bay area. Professional staff and faculty affiliates guide programming that is entirely student operated. Facilities include a 2,000 square foot public gallery with rotating exhibitions, state-of-the-art collections preservation facilities and a teaching classroom and digital lab.
Our Vision
We are a vibrant place of education, an emerging center of community, and a steward of the world’s irreplaceable cultural collections. We are a place of learning that reflects and models highly ethical, community- and educationally-focused museum practice; that supports active visitor engagement with long-standing and newly emerging challenges; and that fosters outward-looking community involvement. We believe that museums, in addition to focusing on the past, can play a transformative, future-oriented role in our globally-connected society.
Programming for All
We steward an outstanding cultural heritage collection that inspires community oriented exhibitions and programs reflecting the diversity of our campus community. Our work models mission and vision tenets of community, culture and connections through our partnerships with other LCA centers and campus departments. This lends a "global" and interdisciplinary perspective to our programs, and allows partners and students alike to apply their academic studies in innovative ways.
Our campus partners include the Museum Studies Student Association, Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, DocFilm Institute, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, Poetry Center, Fine Arts Gallery, Sutro Library, Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Art and Art History, Anthropology, History, Ethnic Studies, Student Outreach Services, ASI Gallery, ASI Project Connect, Graduate Studies, Academic Technology, Advising Resource Center and more!
Exhibition and public programs are supported in part by SF State's Instructionally Related Activities Fund, and SF State University Corporation's Kaufmann Museum Studies Lab Fund, the Global Museum Fund, and the School of Art Barry Annual Fund. Thank you for your support!
Professional Affiliations
Global Museum | Museum Studies holds active memberships with the following professional organizations:
- American Alliance of Museums (Tier 3 Member)
- California Association of Museums (Connect Sponsor and Engage Business Member)
- American Association of State and Local History (Academic Program Member)
- Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (Institutional Member)
- Cultural Connections