Current Exhibit

Greetings from Everywhere
a Treasures of the Tri-Valley exhibit
November 13, 2025 - January 10, 2026

What we bring back from our travels helps preserve (and shape) the memories of what we saw and did on our trips, whether those souvenirs are art objects, T-shirts, or rocks and seashells. In this exhibit members of the Pleasanton community show us some of the items they've collected while traveling and tell us how those objects keep them connected to their experiences away from home.

Souvenirs from the 1939 Treasure Island World's Fair, collected by various Pleasanton residents

Molas from the San Blas Islands, collected by Gary and Pat Kirscher

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Upcoming Exhibits

Imagination Expressed 2026
January 15 - March 14, 2026

Come and see what Pleasanton's art community has been up to recently in our annual show of new work from PAL! The show will feature painting, photography, drawing, jewelry, and other media from Tri-Valley artists.  

PAVLOVA AS SWAN (mixed media) by Linda Garbarino

The Jean P. Jones Gallery 

Our permanent exhibit Growing Pleasanton uses objects, images, and narrative to follow the history of this area and its peoples from the Ohlone tribes who first lived here to the suburban community of today's city. You can learn more about Growing Pleasanton here.

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Kid's Corner

Kids are welcome to drop in and explore the Kid's Corner!  The Kid's Corner is an exhibit area designed for preschool through early elementary ages with dress up, craft activities, books, old time games, and more.  Activities change periodically throughout the year, so drop by and see what's new!

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Recent Exhibits

PAL's Pals 2025
March 22 - 29

Pleasanton Art League brings the work of 65 gifted young artists from 27 Bay Area schools to Museum on Main in this year's edition of their annual youth art competition. Acclaimed California painter Paul Kratter serves as the juror for this exhibition of exciting young art talent.

Once again Pleasanton's art community (with help from Livermore, Dublin, Sunol and other neighbors) brings its members' latest work to Museum on Main for our 18th annual collaboration.

"Metamorphosis" by Dana Yang. Conte on black paper.

855 Main Street, circa 1920 and today. Museum on Main

Downtown Past, Downtown Present
April 1 - May 10



​See how Main Street has changed over the decades by looking at its iconic locations both then and now.
While our rotating exhibit gallery is closed for collections storage inventory, our center hallway will feature an updated version of this popular interactive exhibit.

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Imagination Expressed 2025
Pleasanton Art League at Museum on Main
January 23 - March 15

Gadgets Galore!
Transforming the American Household
Oct. 10, 2024 - Jan. 11, 2025

Maytag washer, 1930s. Museum on Main collection.

The tools and devices of everyday home life provide a window into how America has changed since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Through curling irons and telephones, phonographs and washing machines, Gadgets Galore shows how technological innovation, industrial transportation, and mass communications have shaped our everyday experience.
Gadgets Galore! Is presented by Museum on Main and Exhibit Envoy

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​Textures of Remembrance
Vietnamese artists and writers reflect on the Vietnamese diaspora
June 11 - September 28, 2024

April 30 is a date often remembered poignantly, especially by those of South Vietnamese descent; as well, it is a date that denotes new beginnings. On this date in 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, marking the end of the Vietnam War. Reflecting on this day from past to present through written words, visual creations, and audiovisual components, this interdisciplinary exhibit reveals an intimate perspective of the diasporic experience that has been gathered, created, collected and re-collected, and imagined and re-imagined since 1975.

Textures of Remembrance is presented by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, Exhibit Envoy, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

Textures of My Father by Terri Trang Le, 2021