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The University Art Museum symbolizes a new era of excellence for the University of California. Just as the Campanili is commemorative of the past costing nearly $5 million the students bore more than 90% of the financing through their registration fees. No state funds were used. The museum's

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director is Peter Seltz, who came to Berkeley from the New York Museum of Modern Art five years ago, he believes the new structure is unique. Well, first of all, it's a magnificent building. It's a beautiful building with its dynamic structure which has um which is absolutely

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unique in its feeling. Nobody else. Nobody has ever seen a building like that because nobody's ever made a building like that. The daylight floods in the paintings look different at the time of the light changes. There are these many ramps and as you move from ramp

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to ramp, you see this dynamic development of the structure and it's an entirely unique building. As you walk from gallery to gallery, you go up a little, a little slope and then you're on the next one and then you have a marvelous view. And then before

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you know it, you, you're up on top and the whole thing, it, it really looks like an Italian Hill town as I look down. And it have, I always have that feeling with people leaning against the walls and walking through this, through this town as it

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were. It's a very urban feeling to it. At the same time, it's completely in, it's very informal. Visitors will be treated to the largest single collection of a contemporary artist in the country. The blazing works of Hans Hoffman, the late leader of abstract expressionism in America.

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Hoffman donated his paintings and money for the gallery as a gift to his friends at who helped him leave Nazi Germany and come here to teach the Hoffman collection is just one part of the inaugural exhibition entitled, Excellence Art from the university community included are 600

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works from all periods and cultures, objects from America and Africa paintings and sculpture from the Renaissance to the present such as this surgical steel exhibit. Flip in two Twisters by Len Lai is controlled by a small computer that winds up the gears on the kinetic bands

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and then lets them unravel themselves. This is a place for students where they can exhibit their efforts and study the masters. The new museum is not yet complete but when it is says, museum director Peter Seltz, it will be the museum of the present and the

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future in keeping with its natural and modern feeling. The museum will remain untouched by Paint Christopher Chao for eyewitness news at UC Berkeley.