Santa Barbara Museum of Art

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art comprises 25,000 works of art spanning more than 5,000 years of human creativity, including classical antiquities, masterpieces of French Impressionism, and the only intact mural in the United States by David Alfaro Siqueiros. The Museum welcomes approximately 70,000 visitors annually and provides education programs to over 40,000 people in Santa Barbara County each year, including free transportation for school groups and free California State Standard based education programs for K-12 students. Its collection of the arts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas includes paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, glass, jades, bronzes, lacquer, and textiles. A 75-member Docent Council provides over 800 gallery tours and slide talks annually.