{"id":203113,"date":"2026-03-04T01:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:48:14","slug":"hilbert-museum-marks-a-decade-in-orange-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203113\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilbert Museum marks a decade in Orange \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Museum Director Mary Platt and Mark Hilbert at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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American West artist Maynard Dixon;s artwork with a 1943 edition of Francis Parkman\u2019s account of his travels on The Oregon Trail at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Michaelle (cq) Carmody checks out artwork at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Mark Hilbert at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Art of the Airwaves features vintage white radios at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Mark Hilbert chuckles out \u201cRock On, California! California\u2019s Rock Poster Revolution\u201d at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Mark Hilbert with the painting, \u201cMonday at the Crab Cooker\u201d where the artist Bradford J. Salamon included Hilbert with a light blue shirt sitting at the booth in the center on display at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Mark Hilbert at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Visitors at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Storyboarding artwork for the song \u201cBe Prepared\u201d from Lion King with artwork by J\u00f6rgen Klubien at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Vintage Pueblo \u201cStoryteller\u201d pottery at The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating its 10th anniversary in February. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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For a decade, the Hilbert Museum of California Art has shared work from artists<\/a> who help trace the history of the state and all that makes it special.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s founders, Mark and Janet Hilbert<\/a>, seeded the Chapman University museum from their own expansive collection, and Mark Hilbert<\/a> regularly treats patrons to tours.<\/p>\n

Since opening in 2016, the museum has seen some 300,000 visitors who have viewed 119 exhibitions and shows, according to museum officials. Some 3,500 works have been displayed, from either the Hilbert collection or on loan to the museum, and 80% of the artists represented have been from California, officials said. The museum underwent an expansion<\/a> in 2023 that tripled its siz<\/a>e.<\/p>\n

The museum in Old Towne Orange recently hosted a two-day celebration of its 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Several new exhibits are now open, including one of the biggest shows featuring Disney animation that the Hilbert has yet to host, museum officials said. Disney and Hollywood are very much a part of California\u2019s modern history, after all, and the Hilbert often features work from animators and industry artists, along with other leading California Scene artists.<\/p>\n

The show features more than 50 original drawings and storyboards by the Danish-born artist Jorgen Klubien, who has been involved in several Disney and Pixar classics, including \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d The Lion King\u201d and \u201cMulan,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

The museum is also showcasing its first-ever show curated by Chapman University students. It\u2019s an exhibition of California\u2019s rock poster legacy.<\/p>\n

Other new exhibits now on display touch California\u2019s coast through the maritime prints of Phi Dike, The Oregon Trail through original ink drawings by Maynard Dixon and art and meditation through the combination of viewing stones and California landscape pieces.<\/p>\n

\u201cBehind the success of the Hilbert Museum is a group of loyal California artists and California art experts who spend many hours working with Mark and me to curate the specific shows and artwork we offer the public,\u201d Mary Platt, the museum\u2019s director, said in a statement. \u201cWhile the task is a great honor, the size and scope of the 5,000-piece Hilbert Collection \u2013 spanning not just paintings but prints, lithographs, illustrations, mixed media, animation cells, movie memorabilia, ceramics, Native American pottery and weavings, ephemera and even vintage radios \u2013 can make choosing which works to ultimately showcase a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

So that is why, she said, the museum will have a \u201cBy Popular Demand\u201d show later this year to share pieces that will be curated from visitor comments and requests over the last decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur visitors told us which pieces they wanted to see again to serve as the perfect encore to our first decade,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Hilbert is planning an expanded lecture series this year, touching on everything from Route 66 to Emigdio Vasquez<\/a>, a pioneer in Chicano art whose murals can be seen around Orange County. There is a 50-year retrospective of Vasquez\u2019s work on display through May.<\/p>\n

A Pacific Symphony Orchestra quartet will also appear.<\/p>\n

The next discussion of the series will be Friday, March 6 with Hilbert and Platt, who visited the newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum.<\/p>\n

Find out more at hilbertmuseum.org<\/a>. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays through Sundays and is free to visit, though reservations are encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange, CA, on Friday, February 27, 2026. The museum is celebrating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2308,7,17700,179,23,171,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-203113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-art","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-chapman-university","14":"tag-community","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-orange","17":"tag-orange-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}