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Welcome to the University Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive!

We invite you to "walk into" our gallery (862k MPEG) and theater (572k MPEG).

The University Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive (UAM/PFA) is the principal visual arts center of the University of California at Berkeley, and one of the largest university art museums in the world. As a center for visual culture, the UAM/PFA is more than the sum of its two parts. It makes available to its audience the scholarly resources of an eminent university, while bringing to students and the public the best and most challenging art and film produced. The UAM offers six galleries of art from its collections (Asian, pre-Twentieth Century European, and Modern, including a gallery devoted to the work of Hans Hofmann); five galleries of changing exhibitions, including the MATRIX Program of contemporary art; and a sculpture garden. The PFA has one of the nation's most comprehensive film exhibition programs, featuring works of independent film and video, rare prints of classic cinema, and retrospectives of world cinema. PFA maintains a film and video collection of over 7,000 titles. The PFA Library and Film Study Center is open to the public.

Celebrating 25 Years of Art+Film at Berkeley!

A generous bequest and a gift of paintings by modernist painter Hans Hofmann in 1963 inspired plans to build an art museum on the Berkeley campus. San Francisco architect Mario Ciampi, with design associates Richard Jorasch, Paul Reiter, and Ronald Wagner, won a national competition for the design of the new building. The museum was completed and galleries holding the museum's collections opened in 1970. In 1971 the Pacific Film Archive began its program of film screenings and started building a film collection.

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