# The Foster Museum Museum in Palo Alto, California. - Address: 940 Commercial Street, Palo Alto, CA 94303 - Hours: Tue–Fri 10–4, Sat–Sun 12–4 - Website: https://www.thefoster.org/ - Instagram: [@thefostermuseum](https://www.instagram.com/thefostermuseum/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/sf/map/foster-museum Free; long-term displays of Tony Foster's watercolor journeys, walk-ins welcome. ## Exhibitions ### Tony Foster: *Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild* Dates not published · on view Tony Foster’s 16th journey, 2007–16: watercolors with maps and found objects from wild places nominated by scientists, explorers and writers, from Alaska and Greenland to Borneo and Tibet. Full details: [thefoster.org](https://www.thefoster.org/exploring-beauty-journey) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/foster-museum/exploring-beauty-watercolour-diaries-from-the-wild ### Tony Foster: *Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest* Dates not published · on view Watercolors from Tony Foster’s 15th journey, 2010–12, of Four Corners landscapes held sacred by Native American, Catholic, Mormon and New Age communities, framed with maps and talismanic objects. Full details: [thefoster.org](https://www.thefoster.org/sacred-places-journey) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/foster-museum/sacred-places-watercolour-diaries-from-the-american-southwest ### *Travels with and without a Donkey in the Cévennes* Dates not published · on view Tony Foster and James Ravilious Tony Foster’s first journey, 1982: watercolors from a 120-mile walk through France’s Cévennes in Robert Louis Stevenson’s footsteps, shown with photographs by his companion James Ravilious. Full details: [thefoster.org](https://www.thefoster.org/travels-without-a-donkey-journey) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/foster-museum/travels-with-and-without-a-donkey-in-the-cevennes ### *Protecting Place* Dates not published · on view An interactive environmental exhibition built around Tony Foster’s Falls the Shadow artwork and a tree for visitors’ pledges. Protecting Place is an educational, participatory call to preserve the planet, prompted by Tony Foster’s Fragile Planet exhibition in England in 2021–22. It features his Falls the Shadow artwork and a theme that rotates every nine to twelve months. Visitors can write their thoughts and personal pledges to protect the environment on leaves for a tree in the gallery. Full details: [thefoster.org](https://www.thefoster.org/current-exhibitions) On On View: https://onview.so/sf/foster-museum/protecting-place --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in San Francisco: https://onview.so/sf.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt