The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University celebrates the spaciously reimagined new home of one of the world’s largest collections of California narrative art!
The new Hilbert Museum opened to the public on February 23, 2024 capping an ambitious three-year project to expand from 7,500 to 22,000 square feet as an expansion of the site it has occupied since opening in 2016.
The reinvented Hilbert Museum features a striking, two-building ensemble offering 26 galleries for rotating displays of the more than 5,000 oils, watercolors and drawings depicting everyday California life in the growing Hilbert Collection. It also includes a café, a community room for lectures, classes and events, a research library, and an outdoor courtyard with native gardens that create a new front door to the museum.
