The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is a cooperative managed by the University of California, Berkeley and comprises a combined art museum and repertory movie theater and archive. Founded in 1963, the museum boasts a wide range of works by notable artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Gauguin, Jackson Pollock, Joan Brown, Albert Bierstadt, Jay DeFeo, and Robert Colescott. Other interesting features of the museum include The MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, the Pacific Film Archive (PFA), which specializes in screening international films and consists of a library of documentation associated with the movies, and the exquisite collection of conceptual art and materials of San Francisco collector and dealer Steven Leiber.
2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720, Phone: 510-642-0808