The Beat Museum
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Read more...February 25, 2025
Donation of Bookshelves from Books, Inc.
A big thank you to Books, Inc. for their generous donation last week—nearly two dozen surplus bookshelves and bookcases for the Counterculture Museum! We’re grateful to be giving these shelves a second life on Haight Street, as the new Counterculture Museum will feature a bookstore and gift shop. We’ve already started filling the units with books, and […]
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Read more...February 4, 2025
Remembering Leon Tabory
Holocaust Survivor, Friend of Neal Cassady, and Counterculture Figure
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Read more...February 4, 2025
de Young/Legion of Honor Donate Display Cases to the Counterculture Museum
Last Thursday, we visited the good folks at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), who operate the de Young and Legion of Honor. It was the kind of visit we had to make with a large semi-truck, because they had a rather large gift for us. Well, many large gifts, actually...
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Read more...October 28, 2024
A Big Score Thanks to Corporate America
by Jerry Cimino One of the advantages that comes with being located in the same city as billion dollar startups is when these companies host large events, we sometimes get the leftovers. That’s exactly what happened last week when we received a tip from a friend that a local tech company was holding an event […]
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Read more...June 24, 2024
Jean Varda: The Renaissance Man
The First SF Museum Show in 70 Years
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Read more...June 20, 2024
Cynthia Clark – Gregory Corso’s “Swan Girl”
The Beat Museum is thrilled to present this collaboration with Kurt Hemmer, featuring original letters, illustrations, and other material from the Beat Museum archives—items never before available for public view—until now.
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Read more...June 3, 2024
Saying Farewell to Neeli Cherkovski
On the afternoon of May 20th, folks from North Beach and beyond came out to pay respects to our friend Neeli Cherkovski, who departed the world on March 19th, 2024. The gathering began at Washington Square Park, and proceeded with a second line procession down Grant Avenue to Caffe Trieste, the Beat Museum, and finally […]
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Read more...April 2, 2024
Farewell Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski, poet, biographer, friend and fellow traveler to many Beat and Beat-adjacent poets, writers, and artists, died March 19th. He was 78.
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Read more...March 18, 2024
Vanishing Point Forever
The new book by Robert M. Rubin is a richly colorful tribute to the 1971 cult classic film, and a love letter to a moment in time.
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Read more...March 18, 2024
At the Intersection of Science and Poetry: Francis Crick on Michael McClure
After Michael McClure's original "Peyote Poem."
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Read more...February 19, 2024
Running into Carl Nolte at the Antiquarian Book Fair
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. The day I met Carl Nolte was one of those days. After coming off a very successful two year nationwide tour in The Beat Museum on Wheels in 2004 and 2005, we decided to move The Beat Museum from Monterey, CA to North Beach in San Francisco. […]