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- ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege
- 100 Years of Girl Scouting in California
- 5th Annual California Hall of Fame
- African American Treasures: History and Art from the Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey
- American Masterpieces: The Artistic Legacy of California Indian Basketry
- And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations
- Armenian Journey: From Shattered Past to Prosperity
- Art & Advocacy: To Be Developmentally Disabled (TBD)
- Arte Activista: Día de los Muertos 2023
- Arte y Almas: Día de Los Muertos 2017 (Art & Souls: Day of the Dead 2017)
- Bear In Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly
- Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change
- Before They Were Heroes: Sus Ito’s WWII Images
- Between 2 Worlds
- Black Pioneers
- Bringing the Condors Home
- California at Bat: America’s Pastime in the Golden State
- California Canines: Dogs with Jobs
- California Chrome: A Race for the Dream
- California Creates: Tapigami
- California is in the Heart
- California Pioneer Spirit in Art
- Celebración de Almas: Día de Los Muertos 2018
- Central Valley Turns On: Psychedelic Poster Art, 1965-1975
- Crossing Cultures: Belle Yang, An Immigration Story
- Day of the Dead: Art of Día de los Muertos 2013
- Day of the Dead: Art of Día de los Muertos 2015
- Day of the Dead: Art of Día de los Muertos 2016
- Decade Under the Dome: A Photojournalist’s Quest for Authenticity in the People’s House
- Declaration of Independence
- Día De Los Muertos 2021: Espíritus Creativos De California
- Dig It! The Secrets of Soil
- Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en Los Campos
- Drawing Caleeforneeya: Political Cartoons of Rex Babin, 1999 – 2012
- Duck, Duck, Goose! The Art of Duck Stamps
- Eames Generations: A Legacy of California Design
- Extreme Engineering: The California State Water Project
- Fight for the Right: 100 Years of Women Voting
- Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit
- Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit 2021
- Get On Board: Stories of the Los Angeles to Houston Freedom Ride
- Gold on the Bay
- Kingdom of Dust: Drought & Decline in California’s Central Valley
- Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown
- Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown
- Latinas: The Spirit of California
- Light & Noir: Exiles & Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950
- Making the Grade: California & The Transcontinental Railroad
- Mas Chisme de la Cultura
- Metaphor, Myth, & Politics
- Minerva Award Exhibit
- Mujeres Inspiradoras
- Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television
- Passion & Perseverance: A Year at Encina
- Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights
- Perceptionist Art
- Personal to Political
- Pigskin Peanuts
- Planet or Plastic?
- Power of the People: Voting in California, 1850-2016
- Primo Angeli: Evolution of a Legendary Designer
- Ray Eames: A Century of Modern Design
- Remembering Our Fallen from California
- Riding Concrete: Skateboarding in California
- Roadside Art: Paintings by Terry Thompson
- Romance of the Bells: The California Missions in Art
- Small as a Giant
- Target: California
- The Art of Gaman: Arts & Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946
- The California Hall of Fame 2007
- The Dreamers: Inspirational Stories of Southern California
- The Legacy Continues: The California Legislative Black Caucus at 50
- The Newest Americans
- The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses
- The Sikh Project
- Toyo Miyatake: Behind the Glass Eye
- Treasures from a Trunk: California Pioneers’ Quilts and Textiles
- Treasures from Hearst Castle
- Tuskegee Airmen: Journey to Flight
- Under the Dragon: California’s New Culture
- With Malice Toward None: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit
- Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters In America
- Women on the Brink
- Yosemite People
- Boulevard Dreams California
- The Negro Motorist Green Book
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In addition to long-term signature exhibits, each year the Museum presents multiple short-term exhibits about the state’s history, arts and culture, with an emphasis on its diversity and on stories not often told.