Please join the Silicon Valley Archives in celebrating the opening of The Apes & Us: A Century of Representations of Our Closest Relatives on January 12, 2024. 

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. 

Image: Gabriel von Max, Abelard and Heloise, c. 1900, oil on canvas. The Jack Daulton Collection. Photography by Don Tuttle/Marty Kelly.