Riverside Metropolitan Museum

Exhibits: Special

• Force of Arms
  This exhibition reflects on the Civil War, World War I, and World War II through letters, photographs, documents, personal effects, and uniforms of Riverside residents and their ancestors. Through the letters of a Civil War Officer, one learns of a soldier’s experiences. More...

  
  

• Rin Tin Tin
  When Lee Duncan, a young American soldier from California, found the pup in a bombed out kennel in France in 1918, he had little sense of how his life was about to change. At that moment all he could think of was that he had the dog he had wanted since he was a boy. More...
  

• Hobos to Street People | January 13 - April 29, 2012
  Over the years, artists have shown different aspects of poverty and homelessness. During the Depression, WPA artists portrayed the lives of the poorest Americans both in “noble” and negative images. The work of artists such as Dorothea Lange often appeared in popular magazines such as Life and Time, profoundly influencing attitudes towards poverty. More....