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Sat Mar 15 - Sun Oct 12

In Our Own Backyard

A Celebration of the East Bay Regional Parks


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Location
Date and Time
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607 map
cross street: 10th St.
district: Oakland (Millsmont/Bancroft)

Sat Mar 15 (10 am - 5 pm, opens at 12noon on Sun)
Sun Mar 16 (10 am - 5 pm, opens at 12noon on Sun)
Wed Mar 19 (10 am - 5 pm, opens at 12noon on Sun)
Thu Mar 20 (10 am - 5 pm, opens at 12noon on Sun)
Fri Mar 21 (10 am - 5 pm, opens at 12noon on Sun)

Description
The exhibition offers visitors a virtual tour through the East Bay's most scenic parks and open spaces, following the flow of water from snow-capped Mt. Diablo downstream and eventually into the Bay.

Between 1982 and 1992, Bob Walker created one of the most remarkable portraits of the East Bay landscape ever captured on film. Walker planned to leave his archive—more than 40,000 35-mm slides and historical documents—to the Oakland Museum of California. It came to the museum after his death, in 1992.

The East Bay Regional Park District was created in 1934 by concerned citizens who wanted to protect surplus watershed land in the hills over Oakland and Berkeley from development.