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Help Us Conserve and Exhibit the Cliff House Collection

Together, we saved over 100 artifacts from auction on March 11-12, 2021 but the work still continues. Support our collective effort to interpret our shared heritage at the edge of the Western world.

Visit The Museum at The Cliff in the former Cliff House Gift Shop at 1090 Point Lobos Avenue, Thursdays through Sundays, 11-4pm.  

Our History

Photo. Seal Rocks and the first Cliff House as seen from Ocean Beach, c. 1872. (Cliff House Collection / WNP)

The closure of San Francisco’s iconic Cliff House restaurant in December 2020 was heartbreaking for all who loved it. The city had already lost so much during the first year of the pandemic and it was inconceivable that this landmark, which had risen from the ashes of two fires since opening in 1863, could be gone. So, three strangers decided to do something about it. 

Photo. Left to Right: John Lindsey of The Great Highway gallery, Nicole Meldahl of Western Neighborhoods Project, and Alexandra Mitchell of ACT Art Conservation (aka “The Dream Team”) at the former Cliff House Restaurant, March 2021. (Photo by Jason Corning)

In late February 2021, after learning that historic art and artifacts from the Cliff House were destined to be auctioned, Alexandra Mitchell of ACT Art Conservation approached John Lindsey of The Great Highway gallery and said, “John, we can’t let this happen, we have to save the Cliff House collection.” John agreed, “You should call Nicole Meldahl at Western Neighborhoods Project.” This is how our collective effort, Save The Cliff House Collection, was born. 

Photo. Proceeds from the sale of this watercolor by artist Doug Gorney helped us save the Cliff House Collection. Prints are still for sale on the artist’s website. (Photo by Doug Gorney). 

It took over 470 individual donors to do it, but we were able to raise more than our goal of $150,000 in just over two weeks. This was a grassroots campaign that succeeded primarily through small contributions supported by a few organizations / individuals who provided substantial donations to save our shared heritage. They include:

  • Richard Beleson in honor of Gary Kamiya
  • An anonymous donor who had their wedding reception at The Cliff House
  • The San Francisco Cable Car Museum
  • The Fleishhacker Foundation and David Fleishhacker
  • The Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People

Additional support came from Rabin Worldwide as well as Dan and Mary Hountalas, who gave us access to and helped us to prioritize which items to acquire at the auction; Minnesota Street Project (MSP) and Lawrence Fine Arts (LFA), which have provided free art handling, transport, storage and crating for large pieces in the collection; Market Street Railway, who helped us with fundraising efforts; and all of you who contributed to our campaign in so many different ways. We genuinely love each and every one of you.

Photo. Members of the Dream team and the Minnesota Street Project crew outside the former Cliff House restaurant in March 2021. (Photo by Jason Corning)

And we did it! During an online auction that we hope never to experience again, we placed winning bids on 58 lots to acquire over 100 artifacts–not everything we wanted, but a representative sample of what was once on display at The Cliff House. Now part of the Western Neighborhoods Project (WNP) collection, these artifacts enable us to showcase the many layers of history, not only of the Cliff House but of the Sutro Baths and Playland at the Beach. See What We Saved. [link to page about The Collection] 

Programs

Photo. Our favorite “two-fisted pup stuffer” eating Pronto Pup corn dogs in front of the former Cliff House restaurant, circa 1956. (Courtesy of a Private Collector / OpenSFHistory, wnp25.2243)

This collective effort truly illustrates how community history is a community project and that, when we work together, we can save our shared heritage. This is why we immediately staged Listening Sessions via Zoom following our acquisition to hear what the community wanted to do with these priceless artifacts we acquired as a team effort. These were recorded and are now available on WNP’s YouTube Channel: watch the Listening Session #1 and Listening Session #2. 

Photos. Historian John Martini leads a WNP Cliff House and Sutro Baths History Walk on September 30, 2021. (Photos by Nicole Meldahl / WNP)

Keeping this feedback close, we set about conserving, cataloging, and interpreting the collection. Alexandra Mitchell and her team at ACT Art Conservation LLC began treatments on the most fragile items immediately, and WNP began developing programs, like history walks with historian John Martini and lectures with the Sutro Library. We continue to add new events every month and you can watch recordings of past online programs, like the “Life and library of Adolph Sutro,” on WNP’s YouTube channel.  

Then, WNP took the reins of CliffHouseProject.com from its founder and tireless steward, Gary Stark. Now retired, Gary married the skills he acquired as a video game developer for Atari just out of college to a software developer and IT manager for a construction company with his love of Cliff House history. The website he created is an incredible resource, filled with photographs, newspaper excerpts, and more, either found by Gary or contributed by other historians and history buffs. Gary transferred CliffHouseProject.com to WNP in the Fall of 2021 and also donated historic photographs featured on the site, which are now part of our permanent collection alongside the art and artifacts acquired at the Cliff House auction. 

Exhibitions

Photo. Volunteer Pam Wright inspects our signage on opening day, October 23, 2021. (Photo by Nicole Meldahl, WNP)

But our main priority has been making the collection accessible to the public as soon as possible, and we did this by placing them on exhibition in two separate locations within six months of acquisition. See curated selections currently on view at:  

  • “Selections from the Cliff House Collection” at the WNP Office + Gallery, 1617 Balboa Street, SF, CA, 94121 (Ongoing, By Appointment Only)
  • “The Museum at The Cliff” in the former Cliff House Gift Shop, 1090 Point Lobos Avenue, SF, CA, 94121 (October 2021 – April 2022, 11-4pm, Thursdays through Sundays)

Sign up for intimate Curator’s Tours of The Museum at The Cliff today on the WNP Events Page.

We’ve also been working with local artists to create family-friendly programming in support of our exhibitions. Starting in December 2021, windows overlooking the Pacific Ocean at The Museum at The Cliff will be illuminated by a series of projected artworks by Ben Wood called “The Cliff Moving Picture Gallery.” Wood animates photographs from the OpenSFHistory archives alongside footage from the Prelinger Archives so you can experience this history like never before. You can see scenes from Cliff House days-gone-by every evening from 5:00pm to 10:00pm on a secluded deck behind The Museum. This COVID-safe activity is absolutely free and fun for all ages. 

We hold Projection Premieres to unveil new sequences every month! Join us for complimentary popcorn, beverages, and candy and enjoy extended hours in The Museum at our next premiere:

  1. Saturday, December 4, 2022 at 5:30pm – This Event Has Passed
  2. Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 5:30pm – This Event Has Passed
  3. Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 5:30pm   
  4. Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 5:30pm 
Photo. Artist Ben Wood puts the finishing touches on his projected artwork, “The Cliff Moving Picture Gallery,” from inside The Museum at The Cliff, December 2021. (Photo by Nicole Meldahl / WNP)

We’ve also partnered with Sunset District artist Thorsten Sideboard for a special kids activity book based on the life of Adolph Sutro. Inside, you’ll find a biographical comic strip, a word search, drawing challenges, a treasure map, and more! Generously funded through an education grant from the Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People, this limited-edition zine is free and available to all Junior Historians at The Museum at the Cliff from January 1st through April 10th, 2022. 

Photo. Hot off the presses! WNP Executive Director Nicole Meldahl holds the very first printing of our kids activity book, Sutro for Kids.

Again, we couldn’t have done this without the support of our community. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area has provided the former Cliff House Gift Shop to us for free, also allowing us to keep the Whitney Totem Pole in place on a yearly-renewing special use permit without charge. We’re so grateful to Marcus Koenen and John Omega of the National Park Service for all they’ve done for us. Amanda Williford of the Park Archives and Record Center and Gina Capari, alongside her entire Global Museum team, have been fearless in their flexibility (which is hard for museum professionals!) as we worked together to open The Museum at a break-neck pace. 

In addition, we’re so grateful for the countless hours of exhibition curation, preparation and installation that were also provided by Rick Bellamy, Ryan Butterfield, Jason Corning, Christina Gazi, Jennie Love, John Martini, Gillian Murdoch, Harvey Newman, Arlo Novicoff, Jamie O’Keefe Andrew Roth, Isabel Scanlon, Morgan Schlessinger, Carissa Tonner, Arnold Woods, and Cecilia Zhang. All of this would be for naught if we couldn’t keep our doors open; thank you to volunteer docents Jan and Harold Brandt, Erik Butterfield, Barbara Cannella, Joseph Grossblatt, Anne Evers Hitz, Judi Leff, Gail McGowan, Lauren O’Leary, Peter Peacock, Ken Spielman and Pam Wright. Last but most certainly not least, we need to thank Nicole Smahlik, who coordinates these volunteers and has kept us steady. 

Ongoing Work

We’ve accomplished a lot in less than a year, but this is only the beginning. Stay connected with this community effort by following our journey on Instagram and checking the Western Neighborhoods Project website for upcoming events. 

Want to read more about this wild ride? Peruse our press page for the latest coverage.

Conservation continues under the care of ACT Art Conservation LLC as an Angel Project, but some artifacts, like the porcelain muses, require extra special attention. Also, the collection keeps growing! When news of our success at the auction spread, another muse materialized in a private East Bay collection. She’s been offered to WNP but, sadly, is in pieces–having fallen over in the 1989 earthquake. We need your support to put the pieces back together and reunite these ladies. 

Photos. Minnesota Street Project crews move Sheriff C.U. Soon to the ACT Art Conservation Lab in San Mateo in September 2021, and Sutro Baths Lockers into the WNP Office + Gallery November 2021.

Minnesota Street Project has kindly been storing the larger artifacts, like Sheriff C.U. Soon from Playland at the Beach, since they were removed from the former Cliff House but they can’t live there forever. Plus, our special use permit for The Museum at The Cliff expires in April 2022. We need your help to write the next chapter for these iconic pieces of San Francisco history. 

Photo. WNP’s Chief Preparator, Harvey Newman, planning custom cases for The Museum at The Cliff in August 2021, prior to the exhibition’s. (Photo by Nicole Meldahl / WNP)

We’ll continue to make the collection accessible at the WNP Office + Gallery but our walls can only hold so much. If you have a spare building you’d like to provide for the permanent exhibition of these pieces, let us know. Don’t have that kind of real estate at your disposal? Completely understandable. We’d love to hear your ideas on other solutions. Email the Dream Team with thoughts or questions: info@savethecliffhousecollection.com.

Support This Effort

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Financial support is (obviously) also appreciated. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to support work that includes but is not limited to:

  • Conserving artifacts within the WNP collection–those that were purchased at the Cliff House auction in March, and those that have joined the collection after news of our acquisition spread.
  • Improving collections storage and purchasing archival supplies
  • Developing exhibitions and public programming for all-ages
  • Planning a permanent museum to showcase the diverse art and history of San Francisco’s west side. 
Photo. By popular demand, our effort to Save The Cliff House Collection now has custom merchandise. (Photo by Turkey & Reuben)

You can also support this effort by purchasing custom merch from Turkey & Reuben, owned and operated by Noa Schneorson and Mara Ezekiel. These Inner Sunset residents are doing a very awesome thing: supporting local history. If you buy this one-of-a-kind Sutro Seals hat or other Outside Lands inspired items from the Western Neighborhoods Project Collection, they’ll donate 10% of the sale to our nonprofit. They have hats, tote bags, sweatshirts and stickers. Shop the Collection Today!

Can’t support us financially but want to help in other ways? Awesome! We are actively seeking volunteers to do work behind-the-scenes and engage the public around this local history. Email Nicole Meldahl, Executive Director of Western Neighborhoods Project, at nicole@outsidelands.org if you’d like to join the WNP Team. 

History is happening and we are here for it. The Cliff House Collection Dream Team includes ACT Art Conservation LLC, The Great Highway Gallery, and Western Neighborhoods Project. 

Western Neighborhoods Project, a registered 501(c)3 community history nonprofit, has preserved, interpreted, and shared the diverse history and culture of San Francisco’s west side since 1999. ACT Art Conservation LLC is a fine art studio owned and founded by 4th-generation San Franciscan, Alexandra Mitchel–a fine art Conservator working to protect history and heritage for over 15 years. The Great Highway is a fine art gallery located in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District and founded in 2011 by John Lindsey. 

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Because we are a fully immersive experience, we wo Because we are a fully immersive experience, we would like to encourage a little playful selfie challenge 🌴 Friends, let me debrief you on a top secret mission titled Operation Fake Palm. Our duty, which we chose to accept because we came up with it, was to place a palm in front of every unsightly sight in “Naiad Cove.” Operation Fake Palm has so far been successful, although we have no quantifiable data at present. So here is where you come in… Find a palm, take a selfie, and post it using the following tags: #naiadcove #museumatthecliff and #palmselfie Don’t forget to tag us @savethecliffhouseart * just please do not violate any existing barriers or disturb the art in the process. Please and thank you! If you’re lucky we will repost and at the end of the month we will choose a winner to receive a little gift from us to you 🌴 Ready…set…📸🌴
The Museum at the Cliff is excited to announce an The Museum at the Cliff is excited to announce an open call for submissions for a new after-dark projected video, onto south facing windows of the Cliff House. This new video projection, The Cliff Moving Picture Annex at Kelly’s Cove, in collaboration with artist Ben Wood, will animate the south facing windows of the former Cliff House Restaurant with a unique after dark projected video artwork with motion pictures and photos of Kelly’s Cove. Since December 2021, The Cliff Moving Picture Gallery animates the north facing windows of the old Cliff House gift shop every evening from sundown to 10:30pm with images and motion pictures from the Cliff House and surrounding area over the past 150 years. What's Your Kelly’s Cove story? Do you have photos, films or videos of your time at Kelly’s Cove or the area around it? See your memories projected onto the windows of the Cliff House! YOU CAN PARTICIPATE We want to include your Kelly’s Cove photos and film in this special projected artwork! Submissions are welcome on Instagram: tag @outsidelandz or @benwoodstudio #mykellyscove You may also email jpeg files to: wood.ben1@gmail.com by July 17th –Historic and contemporary submissions welcome –Maximum 3 entries per person, usage not guaranteed –Digital files minimum 300 dpi preferred, JPG ok –Video projections on view in August 2022 Photo Credits: Kelly's Cove circa 1975, Surfer Glenn Schot with the tide hitting the Great Highway wall at Kelly's Cove. Fort Kelly's Cove, built in the rocks below the Cliff House, 1943. (colorized) Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of Chic Devlin family) Volleyball at Kelly’s Cove, circa 1972, Dennis O’Rorke Cliff House sunset, June 2022, Nicole Meldahl Kellys Cove Group circa 1959. (colorized) Courtesy Jim Gallagher Frankie "Tapu" Freitas circa 1968 Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of James Gallagher) Kelly's Cove surfers circa 1965 (colorized) (Courtesy of Dennis O’Rorke) Teenagers around Kelly’s Cove bonfire at Ocean Beach, 1970 (colorized) Photographer Unknown (Courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke) #artintheparks #cliffhouse #mycliffhousesf #kellyscove #oceanbeach #surfart #surfphoto #mykellyscove #artsinthepark
Contemplating the sea 🌊 thank you to our wonder Contemplating the sea 🌊 thank you to our wonderful patrons who come and sit here as long as they’d like, filling our hearts with such joy to see you all 🤍🤍🤍 📸: @nostosnic
View from the top! Principal conservator of @actar View from the top! Principal conservator of @actartconservationsf Alexandra Mitchell is performing onsite conservation of the Playland cowboy, Sheriff C. U. Soon 🌊 the pigment layers top of his hat (and everything else) are severely flaking, making it VERY sensitive to clean. Come say hi! Alex will be onsite conserving him at the Cliff House from noon-4pm on Saturdays 👩🏻‍🎨
Thank you for an amazing first day open San Franci Thank you for an amazing first day open San Francisco! We had so much fun getting to share this incredible creation with you, which is here and exists because of YOU!
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Hello old friend …. 🤍 the Cliff House crew & Hello old friend …. 🤍 the Cliff House crew & team is hard at work this week preparing for the opening of Naiad Cove - opening this Saturday 🌅🌊 free tickets and reservations available at outsidelands.org 🎟 see y’all there 🤠
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father figures out there; with us here and with us in our hearts, that live in our happiest memories 💙 The ones who hold our tickets and prizes so we can go on another ride, The ones who take all the photos so they are never in any themselves, The ones who let us have the whipped cream off the top of the Irish coffee, The ones who lace up our skates and the ones who miraculously seem to find a quiet place to sit during chaotic family outings. Thinking of all the dads today - The Cliff House Crew Photo: outsidelands.org
Atthowe saves the day! We want to shout out a HU Atthowe saves the day! We want to shout out a HUGE thank you to our longtime friends over at Atthowe Fine Arts Services in Oakland, CA for rolling up their sleeves and jumping into this project with us at the Museum at the Cliff! In a matter of days, they put together a team of art handlers and two trucks to pack, transport and install the heaviest of our friends (cowboy, muses and larger objects) at the newest installation at the Museum at the Cliff: NAIAD COVE We are so, so grateful for our community and partners and are proud, excited and appreciative beyond words to welcome Atthowe into the fold on this project! Donating their time, resources and expertise to us, especially at such short notice, was an overwhelming gift to the Collection. Thank you @atthowefineartservices !! Everyone please drop a 💙 below to thank the team for their efforts, time and for laughing with us along the way to make this happen! Community is everything! - The Cliff House Crew Written by Alexandra of @actartconservationsf Photos by @actartconservationsf and @outsidelandz
WE NEED A TRUCK! 🚛 Hey friends! Save the Cl WE NEED A TRUCK! 🚛 Hey friends! Save the Cliff House crew needs your help! This Saturday June 18, 2022 we need a box truck with either a lift gate or a wide ramp to help us move 3 items up to the Cliff House (local move). We need the truck for 1-2 hours and will happily throw a pizza party for all those involved! 🍕 We also need ethafoam sheets, packing tape and furniture dollys if anyone has any to lend a hand! We have some amazing volunteers so far, thank you to all who have stepped up! If anyone else is interested, please give us a shout here on IG or email Alex at ACT Art Conservation at studio@actartconservation.com - Alex Photo: courtesy of Western Neighborhoods Project
HELP WANTED 🤠 🌊 If you are an art handler or HELP WANTED 🤠 🌊 If you are an art handler or know people / businesses in the field, The Cliff House Collection Needs Your Help! We’re in overdrive preparing The Museum at The Cliff to reopen on June 25th with a brand new exhibition in the main restaurant. And due to last minute circumstances beyond our control, we’re without proper transportation or personnel to move the larger artifacts into the Cliff House. Can you be our angel?! We need volunteers to help move these pieces safely and ideally access to a 16-20’ box truck with a lift gate, hand trucks, dollys, moving supplies, cardboard and foamcore and tie down straps. Western Neighborhoods Project can provide some compensation for the truck and will throw volunteers an exclusive pizza party inside Cliff House. Plus so many hugs (if that’s your jam). We’re a tiny nonprofit doing big things on a shoestring budget and we so appreciate any help you can provide! - WNP Contact Alex @ @actartconservationsf for details and volunteering at studio@actartconservation.com or message us on Instagram!
The Museum at The Cliff presents: , Naiad Cove 🌊 a WNP Event Jun 25, 2022 - Aug 21, 2022 at The Museum at The Cliff 1090 Point Lobos Ave Visitors will begin in the history gallery for an overview of what was once here in this area known as Lands End to learn the history of the surrounding area and Mr Sutro.  With this context in place, visitors will enjoy the special exhibition. Curated by John Lindsey of The Great Highway gallery and Nicole Meldahl, Executive Director of WNP, Naiad Cove is an immersive experience that instills a deeper sense of place by placing site-specific contemporary artworks in conversation with historic artifacts–both in situ with the landscape that created them. Enter through San Francisco’s iconic fog to meet old friends from the Cliff House Collection–the porcelain muses, carved wooden bear, and Playland cowboy–who will once again greet visitors at the door. Once inside, guests will experience a simulation of the Sutro Baths mezzanine, where you could once explore a museum, relax with friends, or peer into swimming tanks on the lower level. Walking through the former restaurant’s bar and bistro, you’ll see what it was like to dine at the Cliff House, which was constructed in 1909 but went through several significant transformations as proprietors catered to changing tastes. Then you’ll travel along Great Highway, with a rollercoaster ride and a gallery of contemporary photographs on your way to an area that commemorates the 50th anniversary of Playland at the Beach’s closure in 1972. Projections by Ben Wood and immersive sound installations by Andrew Roth of Roth Audio Design throughout Naiad Cove transport you to another era, and kid-friendly activities too! Tickets are free but you must register in advance through Eventbrite.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there who Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there who took us for brunch at the Cliff House in uncomfortable fancy outfits! And to all the ones we wish we could take now 🤍 We wish you all a joyful Mother’s Day! To all the many kinds of mamas out there: chosen and given, with us and without us. Who showed us love, support and shared laughs and wisdom with us. We love you! And wishing you endless happy memories. Photo: Western Neighborhood Project. : Pt Lobos near Great Highway,Nov 1947 - Two women posing on sidewalk in front of the Cliff House, Sutro Heights fake rocks in background [Mom & Vic at Cliff House, Frisco Cal. Nov 1947
Todays the day! Global Museum Day at The Museum Todays the day! Global Museum Day at The Museum at The Cliff! 🏛🌊 Saturday, February 26, 2022 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM   Location: 1090 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco CA 94121 Cost: Free Web: https://www.outsidelands.org/Event/522 Sponsor: Western Neighborhoods Project, the Global Museum, & SFSU Museum Studies Program, Contact: gcaprari@sfsu.edu Email: nicole@outsidelands.org   The Global Museum at SF State now stewards ancient Egyptian objects that were collected by SF Mayor Adolph Sutro in the 1890s and once displayed in a museum at the Sutro Baths. Selections from this collection are presented alongside other pieces acquired by Sutro that are now part of the Western Neighborhoods Project and Golden Gate National Recreation Area collections. Incredibly, they are reunited for the first time since they were removed from Sutro's Glass Palace in 1966. Meet Global Museum Registrar Gina Caprari, who will share her insights into the complex history of these 4,000-year-old objects and answer any other questions that come to mind. Plus, every San Francisco State University student who signs up for a free WNP student membership while visiting The Museum that day will receive a complimentary poster of the Victorian-era Cliff House from Marilyn Blaisdell's former Cliff House Gift Shop, San Francisciana. As always, The Museum at The Cliff is free and does not require reservations to visit. However, you will need to provide proof of vaccination and wear a mask to step into the gallery. Sponsors: Western Neighborhoods Project, the Global Museum, & SFSU Museum Studies Program
Thank you @sfexaminer for the feature!! We are so Thank you @sfexaminer for the feature!! We are so proud and excited to see @benwoodstudio projection installation featured this morning! Please come by to check it out! 🌊🎥 . This experience is free and can be viewed every evening, from sundown to 10:00pm, beginning December 4, 2021 and rotating until The Museum closes in April 2022.
Don’t forget!! : Projection Party at The Museum Don’t forget!! : Projection Party at The Museum at The Cliff !! 📽 WNP Event Feb 12, 2022 5:30pm-6:30pm (Saturday) at The Museum at The Cliff 1090 Point Lobos Avenue With support from the Prelinger Archives, we are thrilled to celebrate the third of four projected video artworks by Ben Wood animating local history The Museum at The Cliff, located in the former Cliff House Gift Shop at 1090 Point Lobs Avenue, on February 12, 2022. This installation, naturally secluded from Point Lobos Avenue for an intimate viewing experience, will illuminate three northerly-facing windows with diverse scenes of the Cliff House and connected sites. Imagery shows change over time at the Cliff House through the sequenced montage of commercial photography and studio portraits, amateur snapshots, found footage and B-roll that also show the Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights Park, and Playland at the Beach. This creates silent yet enthralling historic context for the Sutro District and also supports artifacts from the WNP, PARC, and Global Museum collections on display inside The Museum at The Cliff and nearby at The Lands End Lookout. Join us at 5:30pm on Saturday, February 12, 2022 and enjoy this special installation with our extended WNP family. The Museum at The Cliff will be open late for viewing, and there will be refreshments to keep us warm. Speaking of staying warm, please bring layers as the projected video will be experienced outside. Pandemic-appropriate masks and proof of vaccination will be required to visit The Museum. This event is free but donations are appreciated to keep our nonprofit going. Registration in advance is not mandatory but appreciated.- @outsidelandz
Thank you @7x7bayarea !! How wonderful to feature Thank you @7x7bayarea !! How wonderful to feature The Museum at the Cliff ! Join WNP Executive Director Nicole Meldahl as she takes you an an intimate tour of The Museum at The Cliff, located in the former Cliff House Gift Shop, on Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 10:00am. With her noted enthusiasm, Nicole will walk you through the stories behind the Cliff House, Sutro Baths, and Sutro Heights on this one hour tour. See souvenirs, one of Adolph Sutro's taxidermy monkeys, a collection of 4,000 year-old Egyptian artifacts, and more as she highlights her favorite pieces on display and provides context that will help you better appreciate the special history of this area known as Lands End. Plus, you can't beat the view... This tour is free for WNP Members and $20 for non-members. It is limited to 12 people and will take place before the museum opens. Please arrive 5 minutes early and be prepared to wear a pandemic-appropriate mask while touring the exhibition. curators tour of the museum. - @outsidelandz Register at outsidelands.org !
🚨 we’re all ok. Bit of a scare - @nbccalive c 🚨 we’re all ok. Bit of a scare - @nbccalive camera crew was robbed at gunpoint at the Cliff House this morning. As a result, the program feature is postponed. We are so grateful to @sanfranciscopolicedepartmentt for their response. Stay safe everyone.
We can’t wait to see you all on California Live We can’t wait to see you all on California Live this morning! Tune into NBC Bay Area at 11:30am (not 10-11, like we accidentally told you) TODAY.  Artist Ben Wood and our ED Nicole Meldahl will be interviewed LIVE inside The Museum. @savethecliffhouseart @thegreathighway @actartconservationsf @benwoodstudio #sfhistory #sanfranciscohistory #californialive #opensfhistory #history #art #museum #exhibition @nbcnews @nbcbayarea @nbccalive
The Museum at the Cliff has an open call for submi The Museum at the Cliff has an open call for submissions for the final video installment of The Cliff Moving Picture Gallery, a unique after dark projected video artwork that animates windows of the Cliff House with images from its own history. What's Your Cliff House History? Do you have photos, films or videos of your time with friends and family at the former Cliff House or the area around it? See your memories projected onto the windows of the Cliff House! YOU CAN PARTICIPATE We want to include your Cliff House history in this special finale! Submissions are welcome on Instagram: tag @outsidelandz or @benwoodstudio #mycliffhousesf You may also email jpeg files to: wood.ben1@gmail.com by February 15th –Historic and contemporary submissions welcome –Maximum 3 entries per person, usage not guaranteed –Digital files minimum 300 dpi preferred, JPG ok Video projections on view in March 2022 #projectionart #bayareaartist #bayareaartists #sfart #sfartist #sanfrancisco #bayareaarts #opencall #cliffhousesf #artconservation #actartconservation #landsend #richmonddistrtict #oceanbeach #ggnra #pointlobos #cliffhouse #playland #sealrock #pacificocean #sanfrancisco #bayarea #goldengate #sutrobaths #prontopup #sanfranciscophotography #artintheparks #artinthepark #cliffhouse #mycliffhousesf #artsinthepark @actartconservationsf @savethecliffhouseart @outsidelandz @thegreathighway @benwoodstudio
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