NUMU 60th Anniversary Community Day

Join us as we kick off our 60th Anniversary year with a free community day! Enjoy art activities, tours, costume contests, live music by Hootenanny!, and more. Guests are encouraged to dress to a 60s theme.

ACTIVITIES:

• 11 AM-12 PM Tour of Greater Bay Area Open 2025: Breaking Through with artists Victoria Veedell, Cynthia Riordan, Siana Smith, Sahba Shere, Jimmy Pollock, Robert Claus, Diane Warner-Wang, Patty Benson, Cheryl Hansen, Diana Losch, and Renee Switkes.
• 11 AM-2 PM Art activities with Ebb & Flow artists Chieko Shimizu Fujioka and Margaret Luo: an interactive paint-by-numbers where guests are welcome to join in and paint alongside Margaret, and Chieko will showcase works in progress and samples from other projects
   
• 11 AM-12 PM & 3-4 PM Get a handle on local history! Guests will be taught how to hold & handle historic objects under the supervision of a Collections professional.
• 12-1 PM History tour about the founding of the museum, from 1965 to now.
• 12:30 PM 60s-themed costume contest for youth ages 0-17. Prizes donated by Automobuild and Friends of the Los Gatos Library!
   
• 1-2 PM Tour of Rainbow on Los Gatos, which features 17 unique artworks of silk embroidered rainbows on found photographs and vintage postcards, with artist Marie Cameron.
• 2-3 PM Tour of Snapshots of Pride: Photographer Ted Sahl's Chronicle of the South Bay LGBTQ+ Community with curator Amy Long.
   
• 3-6 PM Live music by Hootenanny!, a 3-piece, acoustic-guitar-based band, formed in 2009. They play a wide range of great rock & pop tunes from the 60s through the 90s. 
• 4:30 PM 60s-themed costume contest for adults ages 18+. One groovy fashionista will win a $100 gift card from Domus Kitchen & Home Accessories!