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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA | (510) 642-0808
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BAMPFA sits in downtown Berkeley, close to the UC Berkeley campus and BART, so it fits easily into a day around the university and nearby food spots. The building combines an older Art Deco shell with a modern metal addition, so from the outside it looks like a mix of classic and new. Inside, visitors can expect a straightforward museum setup: a lobby with ticketing, a museum store, usually a café, and staff who point people toward the galleries or film theater depending on what they’re there to see.

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For art events, the main galleries are upstairs and on the ground level, with rotating exhibitions that range from large wall installations to smaller, focused shows. Programs like the Fisher Family Art Lab are set up as drop‑in spaces where families, students, and casual visitors can do hands‑on artmaking with a facilitator nearby to help. For film events, there is a dedicated theater where the Pacific Film Archive programs repertory and contemporary screenings, often on specific themes or directors, and these run more like regular movie showings with set start times and seating.

BAMPFA is part of the University of California, Berkeley, and has roots going back to the early 1960s, when it was formally established as the campus art museum and film archive. Over time it has built a collection of nearly 25,000 works of art and around 18,000 films and videos, so exhibitions and screenings often draw from that depth as well as visiting works. Visitors coming for a single event usually end up moving through the same shared public spaces as regular museumgoers, with access to galleries, the theater, and study or lobby areas depending on what is open that day.

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