MOAH Online Archive Contents

Past Exhibits

Items marked as links are in the MOAH online archives

06/09/06 - 09/24/06 Sailing Through History With Model Ships
10/07/05 - 01/29/06 Construction Toys in Motion
06/10/05 - 09/25/05 Robots! Merging Man and Machine
06/04/04 - 09/26/04 Stitches in Time: 100 Years of Sewing
02/06/04 - 05/23/04 When Radio Was King II
10/03/03 - 01/25/04 Vintage Board Games and Puzzles
06/06/03 - 09/21/03 Cycles of History: The Classic Bicycles
02/07/03 - 05/25/03 It's On the House: Architecture and Artifacts
06/07/02 - 09/22/02 A Sense of Wonder: The 1915 San Francisco World's Fair
02/08/02 - 05/31/02 Brains to Bytes: The Evolution of Information Storage
10/12/01 - 01/27/02 Home Beautiful: Domestic Embroidery 1900 - 1940
06/08/01 - 09/30/01Tools of the Trade
02/08/01 - 05/27/01 Let's Go to the Movies - The Mechanics of Moving Images
10/27/00 - 01/28/01 The Mechanics of Dolls
06/15/00 - 10/15/00 Energizing the Community: 100 Years of Palo Alto Utilities
02/11/00 - 05/28/00 Inventions that Shaped Our Lives: Growing Up in the 20th Century
10/08/99 - 02/23/00Robots!
07/16/99 - 09/26/99Mechanical Music Makers
03/12/99 - 07/04/99The Founder's Collection: Delightfully Different Devices
11/20/98 - 02/28/99Building Excitement: a Century of Construction Toys
07/31/98 - 11/01/98Measure for Measure: Putting Numbers to the World Around Us
04/19/98 - 07/19/98Toys and More
03/07/97 - 06/22/97Motorcycle Mania: the Early Years
11/15/96 - 02/23/97Dreams of Steam: A History of Steam Power
07/26/96 - 11/03/96Talking Wires: the Development of the Telephone
03/29/96 - 07/07/96Ka-ching! Ka-ching!: The History of Cash Registers
07/01/94 - 10/30/94It's About Time: Clocks and other Timepieces
04/19/93 - 06/04/93Horseless Carriage Days
10/31/92 - 03/21/93Put Another Nickel In: Mechanical Music Machines
03/91     - 06/91When Radio was King

Pages soon to be added

06/17/11 - 11/06/11 Victorian America: Invention and Technology
12/03/10 - 05/11/11 The Cabinet of Curiosities
04/23/10 - 10/02/10 Picture This! A History of Photography
11/20/09 - 10/28/10 Meccano Mania
04/17/09 - 11/01/09 California Living the Sunset Way
08/29/08 - 03/29/09 Music to One's Ears
03/07/08 - 08/17/08 Bonfires and Bugs: The Art & Science of Camping
11/16/07 - 02/24/08 Toys From the Attic
06/15/07 - 11/04/07 Williams House Centennial: Look How Things Have Changed
02/09/07 - 06/03/07 100 Years at the Williams House: The Early Years
10/06/06 - 01/28/07 Classic and Timeless Toys
02/10/06 - 05/28/06 The Art & Evolution of Navigation
02/11/05 - 05/29/05 Mechanically Advantaged: Gears, Levers and Pulleys
10/08/04 - 01/30/05 Number, Please: The Evolution of the Telephone
10/07/02 - 01/25/03 Toys, Trains and Treasures
10/12/01 - 01/27/02 Toy Trains
07/07/97 - 11/02/97Williams House Preview: Calculators, Questionable Medical Devices, and Sewing Machines
--Samplings from the Museum's Collection
04/28/95 - 07/05/95Backroom Treasures: Home Entertainment and Office Artifacts from the Museum's Collection
11/11/94 - 04/15/95Toys of Yesteryear: Mechanical Toys from the late 1800s to mid 1900s
04/22/94 - 06/19/94Celebrate Palo Alto: the First 100 Years
10/29/93 - 04/17/94All Aboard: a Century of Toy Trains
06/18/93 - 10/17/93"Watch the Birdie!": Cameras through History
01/23/93 - 03/21/9325 Years of Hot Wheels
07/03/92 - 10/18/92Models of Invention: an Exhibition of Patent Models
03/06/92 - 05/31/92Tools that Shaped America
12/06/91 - 02/92Toys and Trains from Christmas Past
09/06/91 - 12/06/91Velocipedeimania: Bicycling Through Time
09/06/91 - 11/911920s Neighborhood Grocery Store
06/21/91 - 08/914th of July Americana and Fireworks
11/90     - 3/91Antique Toys and Trains from the Pre-world War II Era
1990A Sampling of Museum Collections: Electrical and Mechanical Memorabilia

Virtual Exhibits

The following links are to pages describing individual specialized exhibits at MOAH. These pages may contain additional material further illuminating the original exhibit. Some subjects that were not actual physical exhibits, but are thought to be relevent to the history of invention, are also included.
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