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The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. Located in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor.
The museum's collection of European Decorative Arts includes a gilded Spanish ceiling from c. 1500; numerous items of furniture, including Horace Walpole’s commode of 1763 from Strawberry Hill House, west of London; and three period rooms, including the Salon Doré from the Hôtel de La Trémoille, Paris, said to be the only complete example ...
FAMSF logo, 2024 The de Young Museum, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco.
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The Museum of International Propaganda features a permanent collection of propaganda posters, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts from more than 25 countries Napa Valley Museum: Yountville: Napa: Napa Valley: Multiple: Art and natural history of Napa Valley, including local Native American and wine-making history Nike Missile Site SF-88
MOCA's permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art's full-scale institutionalization.
In 1924, the de Young Museum was voted a civic maintenance program, the Legion of Honor museum was finished, and in 1926, a bond was passed to reinforce the weakening Palace of Fine Arts structure. [5] Three public museums were available to San Franciscans. SFAA's own museum operated in the Palace of Fine Arts until 1925.
The star piece was De Kooning's Orestes which sold for $13.2 million. [28] In 2014, Weisel donated around 200 pieces of art from his Native American collection to the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and in 2016, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will rename three of its California art galleries after Weisel. [25]