
The San Jose Museum of Art is a distinguished museum of modern and contemporary art and a lively center of arts activity in Silicon Valley. The leading institution in the area committed to the art of our time, SJMA is dedicated to delivering access for its extraordinarily diverse populations and to pioneering new approaches to interpretation. Set up in 1969, SJMA gifts art varying from modern masterpieces to recent works by young, emerging artists. The Museum's permanent collection 1, 400 varied artworks from the twentieth and 21st centuries has a special focus on West Coast art, seen in an international and national context.