Collections
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Read more...Cynthia Clark – Gregory Corso’s “Swan Girl”
The Beat Museum is thrilled to present this collaboration with Kurt Hemmer, featuring original letters, illustrations, and other material from the Beat Museum archives—items never before available for public view—until now.
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Read more...Banned Books Week: The Bonfire of Wilhelm Reich
In celebration of Banned Books Week, we’re excited to announce that the Beat Museum has recently acquired some 1950s publications from Wilhelm Reich’s Orgone Institute Press, related to one of the most egregious cases of censorship in US history.
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Read more...Horst Spandler’s On the Road Collection Has Arrived
Trove of 100+ international editions of Kerouac's On the Road in dozens of languages arrives at the Beat Museum.
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Read more...UPDATE: Success! Please Help The Beat Museum Preserve This Extremely Rare Jack Kerouac LP
Who would ever have imagined that one of the rarest and most valuable record albums ever produced wasn’t recorded by a world-class musician or group—but by a novelist and poet? We’re not talking about a one-off, like the 2022 Ionic Original version of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold at Christie’s for $1,769,508 last year, […]
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Read more...Ferlinghetti’s Handwritten Notes on Bad Reviews of Starting from San Francisco
First edition contained clippings of reviews, plus Lawrence's handwritten response.
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Read more...Painting of Bob Kaufman by George Pennewell Arrives at the Beat Museum
George Pennewell's exquisite rendering of Bob Kaufman, commissioned by Bob Gilman, finds a new home at the Beat Museum.
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Read more...Horst Spandler Donates ‘On the Road’ Collection
The poet ruth weiss was the first person to ever tell us about Horst Spandler. Soon after we moved to San Francisco in 2006, ruth mentioned she had this amazing friend who lived in Nuremberg, and that he was instrumental in the translation and publication of her poetry in Germany. Later I was told by […]
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Read more...Interview with Joe Lee
Lee's collection of Beat Generation artworks will soon be on exhibit at John Natsoulas Center for the Arts in Davis, California. The exhibition, The Beat Goes On: Poets as Painters opens on November 10th.
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Read more...The Dreamachine
The Dreamachine was conceived by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs’ “systems advisor” Ian Sommerville, after reading William Grey Walter’s book The Living Brain. Composed of a cylinder with slits cut in the sides, rotating at 45rpm around a light bulb suspended in the middle, light is emitted through the slits at a frequency between […]
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Read more...We’re Reopening June 25th!
With a new exhibition, Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Home, featuring his personal desk.
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Read more...Allen Ginsberg’s Early Poems at Columbia, 1947
Some of Allen Ginsberg's earliest published poems in the Columbia Review, May 1947.