New Napa Valley Museum flagship St. Helena location set to open in mid-April 2025 with reprise of popular Julia Child exhibition.
She’s back! Well, almost. “Julia Child: A Recipe For Life” is set for a mid-April opening at the Napa Valley Museum of Art & Culture, aka The MAC, in St. Helena. In early February, executive director Laura Rafaty provided a sneak peek of the show, then still being installed, and the museum’s new flagship location, which occupies part of the former Dean & DeLuca (later Gary’s) food and wine store.
Interactive TV Set
The exhibit about the world-famous co-author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and author of several other books contains video and audio recordings of Child; photographs, including some by her husband, Paul Child; and an interactive television set of The French Chef. Boston’s WGBH produced the groundbreaking cooking show for NET, the public-television predecessor to PBS.
New Wildflowers Exhibit at Yountville Facility
The original version of the Napa Valley Museum’s Julia Child exhibition, “France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child,” debuted in 2017 at its Yountville facility, which will continue. From mid-February to mid-July, the Yountville museum is presenting a fascinating exhibition, “Sophie Alstrom Mitchell – Wildflowers of Napa Valley,” of watercolors a longtime St. Helena resident created between 1882 and 1888.