Coming Soon “The MAC”!

Opening March 15, 2025

Schedule:

Julia Child: A Recipe for Life opens March 15, 2025 and runs through March 8, 2026 in the Ron & Diane Disney Miller gallery at The Napa Valley Museum of Art & Culture (“The MAC”). Also on display: SEER, video art by Naomie Kremer; All the Restaurants of Napa Valley by John Donohue. 

Venue Details:

The Napa Valley Museum of Art & Culture (“The MAC”)

Opening March 15, 2025

Will Be Open 7 days a week from 10 to 5 (closed major holidays)

Regular Admission 2025:

Adults (18 to under 65):   $25.00

Napa Valley Museum Members save 20%

The MAC has one main gallery: the Ron & Diane Disney Miller Gallery

plus two smaller galleries. The total gallery space is over 4,000 sf with another 2,000 sf of lobby and retail space.

The MAC Museum Store features exclusive “Julia Child: A Recipe for Life” merchandise, along with books, gifts, home decor, furnishings and artworks for sale. 

Artefact at The MAC is a selection of antiques, decor and original designs curated by Dave Allen of Artefact Design & Salvage.    

Under-study, the new cafe concept by the Michelin-star team from PRESS Restaurant Napa Valley, is opening behind The MAC, and the large shared glass windows and glass-walled teaching kitchen allow the two spaces to fully integrate the visual and culinary arts.

About The MAC

Napa Valley Museum is pleased to announce that it has signed a lease to create a new flagship location in St Helena, at 607 St Helena Highway, in the space formerly occupied by Gary’s Wine and Dean & Deluca, and adjacent to Press, a Michelin-star restaurant. This expansion comes fifty-one years after the Museum was founded by a passionate group of locals wanting to preserve Vintage Hall in St Helena, and twenty-five years after the Museum built the current facility on the Veterans Home property in Yountville.  Opening is targeted for March 15, 2025. We will be opening the location with a new name: The Napa Valley Museum of Arts & Culture (or “the MAC”). We will share the space with a new cafe “under-study” from the Press restaurant team. 

We will launch the new location with our national touring exhibition: Julia Child: A Recipe for Life, a vivid interactive look at the life and legacy of this American culinary and broadcasting pioneer, which has been drawing tens of thousands of enthusiastic visitors across the country. Many locals and visitors saw our original exhibition in Yountville – this is a new, bigger version with a different focus and even more Julia, which was too supersized for our existing gallery space.

The Museum’s expansion will enable us to dramatically increase the impact of our arts and education programs, ensuring our long-term sustainability and the accomplishment of our mission. We won’t be leaving our existing space behind, as the Napa Valley Museum Yountville will continue to host exhibitions like Sophie Alstrom Mitchell, Napa Valley Originals and Treasures from the GAIA Foundation and the Museum’s Permanent Collection. We will continue to host community events and programs, popular festivals like “Top Drink,” and house our permanent collection of 15,000 artworks and artifacts evidencing Napa Valley’s rich geography and history. We will be able showcase more local artists, programs and performances, plus more public and private events, in Yountville.

Thanks to a generous gift from the Ron & Diane Disney Miller Fund, we are on the way to our fundraising goals. With this expansion, we can ensure that Napa Valley, specifically St Helena, which already boasts exceptional art galleries and artists, will host the world-class original exhibitions and iconic artist presentations for which the Napa Valley Museum has become internationally known, including not only Julia Child but The Wyeths: Three Generations opening in October of 2025.

Napa Valley Museum is a tax-exempt, 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Donations may be fully tax-deductible.
Contact info@napavalleymuseum.org for more information.