History
The Foster Museum was founded by Jane Woodward as a means to hold Tony Foster’s recent watercolor wilderness Journeys intact as the whole works of art that Tony envisions as he creates them. His first 14 Journeys were exhibited and then the component artworks were sold to individual collectors.
The 501(c)(3) Foster Art & Wilderness Foundation was established in 2013, and The Foster Museum opened in February 2016 with an exhibition of its first complete Journey, Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest.
With a permanent home at 940 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, California, The Foster Museum serves as a venue for art, wilderness, education, and community programs and events.
Our Building
The museum’s 14,000-square-foot facility was transformed from an industrial warehouse into a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver exhibition space in 2014-2015. Previously, the building was an active ambulance garage for Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital.
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Land Acknowledgment
The Foster Museum respectfully acknowledges the Ramaytush Ohlone, the original inhabitants of what is now the San Francisco Peninsula.
Indigenous communities have lived in and moved through this land over hundreds of generations and Indigenous peoples from many nations make their home in this region today. Please join us in recognizing and honoring their ancestors, descendants, and all other members of their communities.