A working digitization laboratory and open storage featuring hundreds of works from the Fine Arts Collection, Backstory: Digitizing the Museum Collection is developed and presented in conjunction with UC Davis students in the Fall 2025 Exhibition Practicum course led by Assistant Professor Alexandra Sofroniew. By bringing “back of house” activity to the front, this project is a window into the museum’s 10th anniversary digitization initiative. Visitors will be invited to glimpse key practices related to collections management including how artworks are researched, documented and photographed, and visit our staging area where rotating artworks are brought from storage to the digitization laboratory.

Exhibition developed by Randy Roberts, deputy director, and Jez Flores-Garcia, associate curator for collection digitization

On view January 21–May 2, 2026