The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives Opening Event

Please join the Silicon Valley Archives in celebrating the opening of this exhibit.

Centering upon a set of paintings by the Austrian artist and evolutionist Gabriel von Max (1840-1915), The Apes & Us explores a century of representations of primates in relation to humans. Come tour the cultural fascination with apes that began in the decades after Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859) as it spread into art, literature, and film, science and pseudoscience, the scholarly and the sensational. Tours of the exhibit will begin promptly at 6:15