The Oakland Museum of California will reopen its Great Hall next week, more than a month after it suffered water damage from the “atmospheric river” storm that blew through the region.

The exhibition hall at the museum at 10th and Oak streets near Lake Merritt has been closed since Oct. 24 but is reopening Dec. 3 with the special exhibition “Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism” resuming.

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“Edith Heath: A Life in Clay,” the next show at the museum that had to be postponed due to the closure, will now open to the public on Jan. 29.

No artwork in the museum was damaged as a result of the storm, and crews are finishing the repairs ahead of next week’s reopening, museum officials said.

Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.