To better engage its visitors, California's Oakland Museum of Art has mixed up the traditional manner of art display, replacing chronological order with high-interest thematic groupings.

Re-opening May 1 after a two-year renovation, the museum, for example, has a California landscape section which includes a topographical map of the high Sierra, a 1945 Ansel Adams print of a winter Sierra sunrise, and the 1858 Antoine Claveau painting "Falls, Yosemite." You can put headphones on for a virtual walking tour through Bierstadt's 1868 painting "Yosemite Valley."

Works by Bierstadt, Diebenkorn, Thiebaud, Peter Voulkos and other California masters, are mixed with historical artifacts, natural history items, video, and audio---from American Indians telling of their ancestors in the opening gallery to Grateful Dead songs played in the counterculture, "Radical Acts" gallery.

Visitor-generated content pops up throughout, rendering the space interactive and current.