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ARCHIVED EXHIBITS
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 & 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 - 09/30/01
Tools 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 - 02/23/00
Robots!


07/16/99 - 09/26/99
Mechanical Music Makers


03/12/99 - 07/04/99
The Founder's Collection: Delightfully Different Devices


11/20/98 - 02/28/99
Building Excitement: a Century of Construction Toys


07/31/98 - 11/01/98
Measure for Measure: Putting Numbers to the World Around Us


04/19/98 - 07/19/98
Toys and More


03/07/97 - 06/22/97
Motorcycle Mania: the Early Years


11/15/96 - 02/23/97
Dreams of Steam: A History of Steam Power


07/26/96 - 11/03/96
Talking Wires: the Development of the Telephone


03/29/96 - 07/07/96
Ka-ching! Ka-ching!: The History of Cash Registers


07/01/94 - 10/30/94
It's About Time: Clocks and other Timepieces


04/19/93 - 06/04/93
Horseless Carriage Days


10/31/92 - 03/21/93
Put Another Nickel In: Mechanical Music Machines


03/91 - 06/91
When Radio was King



OTHER EXHIBITS
05/25/12 - 01/13/13
Inventing the 20th Century: 1901 - 1941

12/09/11 - 04/29/12
A Child's World: Antique Toys 1870 - 1930

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 - 11/02/97
Williams House Preview: Calculators, Questionable Medical Devices, and Sewing Machines - Samplings from the Museum's Collection

04/28/95 - 07/05/95
Backroom Treasures: Home Entertainment and Office Artifacts from the Museum's Collection

11/11/94 - 04/15/95
Toys of Yesteryear: Mechanical Toys from the late 1800s to mid 1900s

04/22/94 - 06/19/94
Celebrate Palo Alto: the First 100 Years

10/29/93 - 04/17/94
All Aboard: a Century of Toy Trains

06/18/93 - 10/17/93
"Watch the Birdie!": Cameras through History

01/23/93 - 03/21/93
25 Years of Hot Wheels

07/03/92 - 10/18/92
Models of Invention: an Exhibition of Patent Models

03/06/92 - 05/31/92
Tools that Shaped America

12/06/91 - 02/92
Toys and Trains from Christmas Past

09/06/91 - 12/06/91
Velocipedeimania: Bicycling Through Time

09/06/91 - 11/91
1920s Neighborhood Grocery Store

06/21/91 - 08/91
4th of July Americana and Fireworks

11/90 - 3/91
Antique Toys and Trains from the Pre-world War II Era

1990
A 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 relevant, are also included.

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