San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
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San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 38 m. Observatory Peak stands 1,298 m to the east, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Future Leader, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. Holdings include a permanent collection of over 1,000 quilts, garments and ethnic textiles, emphasizing artists of the 20th- and 21st-century, and a research library with over 500 books concerning the history and techniques of the craft.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1977.
Wikidata Q7414467, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 7.73 m
- Elevation
- 38.28 m
What to expect
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Future Leader: 0.0 mi
- Coins at Crossroads, Cucumber Seeds, Me Too: 0.0 mi
- One Thousand Generations: 0.0 mi
- Auspicious Dragon: 0.0 mi
- Huipil of Love and Home: 0.0 mi
- SoFA Demonstration Garden: 0.0 mi
- San Jose State Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Spartan Rose Garden: 0.5 mi
- CNGF Native Plant Farm: 1.5 mi
- Historic Orchard: 1.6 mi
- Parque de los Pobladores: 0.0 mi
- Notre Dame High Pardini Park: 0.1 mi
- O'Donnell's Gardens Park: 0.3 mi
- Plaza de César E. Chávez: 0.4 mi
- Fairmont Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Japanese American Internment Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Twohy Building: 0.4 mi
- Man of Fire: 0.4 mi
- In Memory of the Burning of San Jose Chinatown: 0.4 mi
- City Hall Cornerstone: 0.4 mi
- The Tech Interactive: 0.4 mi
- Children’s Discovery Museum: 0.4 mi
- Luis María Peralta Adobe: 0.8 mi
- Carmel and Thomas Fallon House: 0.8 mi
- Jeff Garcia Hall of Champions: 0.9 mi
- Monopoly in the Park: 0.5 mi
- Dragon Flyers: 1.1 mi
- Danny the Dragon Train: 1.1 mi
- Pacific Fruit Express: 1.1 mi
- Kiddie Swings: 1.1 mi
- Danny's Place: 1.1 mi
- Chimes and Bells: 1.1 mi
- Silly Celebration: 1.1 mi
- Whistling Woods: 1.1 mi
- Sunflower Circle: 1.1 mi
- Ulistac Natural Area: 6.6 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 6.9 mi
- Bryan Osborne Nature Center: 7.0 mi
- Heintz Open Space: 7.1 mi
- Vasona Lake Eucalyptus Grove: 7.2 mi
- Santa Teresa Springs: 8.6 mi
- Cherry Springs: 9.8 mi
- Congress Springs: 11.0 mi
- McClure Spring: 12.4 mi
- South Spring: 13.9 mi
- Castle Rock Falls: 14.0 mi
- Gerow's Waterfall: 15.1 mi
- Peter's Creek Falls: 15.8 mi
- Murietta Falls: 16.9 mi
- Lower Falls: 17.5 mi
- Drawbridge: 10.7 mi
- Lexington: 10.8 mi
- Alma: 11.5 mi
- Holy City: 12.9 mi
- Patchen: 13.4 mi
- Niles beach: 18.5 mi
- Del Valle West Beach: 20.2 mi
- Del Valle East Beach: 20.4 mi
- Cable Car Beach: 22.6 mi
- Shadow Cliffs Beach: 23.8 mi
- Graffiti Rock: 11.0 mi
- Lyme Disease Rock: 13.4 mi
- Underworld Rock: 13.7 mi
- The Bluff: 14.0 mi
- Del Valle Cliffs: 21.9 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 21.7 mi
- Felton Covered Bridge: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observatory Peak | E 86° | 1,298 m | 13.3 mi |
| Tycho Brahe Peak | E 86° | 1,286 m | 13.5 mi |
| Mount Hamilton | E 86° | 1,279 m | 13.3 mi |
| Huyghens Peak | E 86° | 1,276 m | 13.4 mi |
| Galileo Peak | E 83° | 1,273 m | 13.8 mi |
| Ptolemy Peak | E 87° | 1,237 m | 13.2 mi |
| Black Mountain | NE 53° | 1,169 m | 12.6 mi |
| Mount Day | ENE 58° | 1,163 m | 11.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:12 | 18:45 | 19:20 |
| June solstice | 05:48 | 19:53 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:32 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:13 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 54 | 57 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 56 | 51 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Jose, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/38341935
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- Aptos · 24 mi
- Capitola · 25 mi
- Santa Cruz · 26 mi
- Watsonville · 29 mi
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