The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026, but the story behind the museum actually began more than three decades ago. In 1992, Orange County businessman Mark Hilbert and his wife, the late Janet Hilbert, were browsing consignment shops in Palm Springs after purchasing a small desert
Calling all witches, superheroes, pumpkins, pirates, and the families who love them! The streets of Old Towne Orange were once again filled with Halloween magic as Treats in the Streets made its return on Thursday, October 30, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. This year’s celebration came alive with a ghoul-tastic Halloween stage, a brand-new Kids
The spaciously reimagined new home of one of the world’s largest collections of California narrative art officially opened to the public in February. The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University, founded and funded through the ongoing generosity of art patrons and philanthropists Mark and Janet Hilbert, has undergone an ambitious three-year project to
The Hilbert Museum of California Art, one of Orange County’s most popular art destinations, will begin renovations that will add new space for enhanced exhibitions and programs. The project will unite the current museum space with the building next door, previously the home of Chapman’s Department of Dance, which will be moving to a spectacular
The much-honored Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University – named the Best Art Museum in Orange County by OC Weekly in 2018 – keeps getting better. The Hilbert’s newly acquired Norman Rockwell drawing, “Crestwood Commuter Station,” created in 1946 as a study for one of his iconic Saturday Evening Post covers, is on