The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art featured Sea Ranch in an Exhibit: "The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment and Idealism" December 2018-April, 2019. The exhibition was devoted to exploring the early concepts and plans of this seminal Northern California Modern development and featured archival and contemporary photographs, original drawings and sketches from the project’s designers and a full-scale architectural replica. 

Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)  Journey to The Sea Ranch digital exhibit engages visitors with archival collections through a series of visually-rich stories, including a comprehensive timeline of the creative process and tours of the built environment.  Brought together for the first time in digital format, these materials, including drawings, photographs, and manuscripts, animate the core principles and drives behind one of the most significant architectural and ecological planning projects of the twentieth century. 

Modern-day explorers will find Placenotes, a newly created digital guide to The Sea Ranch, an easy means to access new layers of images and information about landscape and architecture, flora and fauna, culture, and history. Currently available for sale online, Placenotes was created and sold by the Charles Moore Foundation as a travel guide that seeks to lead people to places that truly matter. Placenotes aspires to guide you, not to the everyday mundane, but rather to the places that move, inspire, and amuse us, to places that linger in our memories and imagination. Wholly and wonderfully digital, the app is available for all of your mobile devices.

In 1965, a group of young architects- inspired by the local Pomo Indians’ belief in “living lightly on the land”- began planning a community where the buildings blend with the terrain and instead of yards, there are “commons”: miles of shared fields, oceanfront and walking trails. “It’s about experiencing the place rather than following a golf ball or something,” explains Sea Ranch architect Donlyn Lyndon. “One of the things most important about The Sea Ranch is that half of the land is held in commons. When you get a deed it describes your property and that you own an indivisible portion of the commons which is to say you can’t sell that, but you are an owner of the commons.” Donlyn's book "The Sea Ranch" is available for sale online and you can view the entire story

Opening remarks provided by Kyle Normandin, senior project specialist, Getty Conservation Institute. Presented by Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley.  Donlyn focused on long-term conservation strategies for the Sea Ranch development and the ways architects Lawrence Halprin and Garret Eckbo each directed their designs through the integration of landscape and setting.  Presented in conjunction with Getty Conservation Institute's Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative, which seeks to advance the practice of conserving twentieth-century heritage. 

• The Self-Guided Gateway Map, through 18 gates, directs you to places or things that are notable in the cultural history of The Sea Ranch. Each gate is an introduction to a place, like the four buildings on The Sea Ranch that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ​

• Where to Start and Directions:: Begin at the main entry doors to the Sea Ranch Lodge located at 60 Sea Walk Drive, The Sea Ranch, CA.

• When to take the tour: Any day of the week only during daylight hours.

• Walk length: Approx 2 hours for entire tour.

• Public parking: At the Sea Ranch Lodge or at the nearby Sonoma County Black Point Public Access parking lot (closes at sunset).

• What to bring: Your mobile device or printed Guide, the Map (access via your mobile device or print a copy), trail-worthy shoes, and a warm jacket for windy days. ​