Specialty quilts featured in Danville museum exhibit

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The “Museum at 30, Celebrating Three Decades of Service” exhibit is underway at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley and features historical quilts and artifacts to promote knowledge about the community’s history and culture.

Some of the quilts featured in the display at the museum — located at 205 Railroad Ave. in downtown Danville — include “Miracle on the Hudson,” which depicts local resident retired airline captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009.

Also part of the exhibit is Rose Ferreira’s family quilt showing events in the life of Bettencourt Ranch in the Tassajara Valley, museum reps said.

A collaborative history quilt created by the Alamo-Danville Soroptimists International, designed by Helen Odegard and Mary Anne Iarussi, stitched by other members and quilted by the III Ward Relief Society of Oakland’s Church of Latter-Day Saints in 1985 is also featured in the exhibit, along with a Danville sesquicentennial quilt by Cyndy Rymer made up of digital images of historic figures.

The Museum at 30 exhibit is open now through Nov. 8. The museum’s summer hours which are Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sundays 12-3 p.m. and closed Mondays.

For more information, visit the museum website or call 837-3750.

Cyndy Rymer’s Danville Sesquicentennial Quilt made up entirely of digital photographs of historic figures featured in Museum at 30, Celebrating Three Decades of Service exhibit. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the San Ramon Valley).
The “Miracle on the Hudson” quilt on display at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley through Nov. 8. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the San Ramon Valley).
Retired airline pilot Sully Sullenberger (pictured) with the “Miracle on the Hudson” quilt depicting his emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the San Ramon Valley).
The History quilt designed, stitched, and quilted collaboratively featured in the “Museum at 30” exhibit. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the San Ramon Valley).