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The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype , or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Located in Lincoln Park, the Legion of Honor is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), which also administers the de Young Museum. [1] In 2024, the two combined museums were ranked 15th in the Washington Post 's list of the best art museums in the U.S. [ 2 ]
The store's history is rooted in the 1849 California Gold Rush. The company was founded by Felix and Emile Verdier in May 1850 [2] when Emile arrived in the San Francisco Harbor on a chartered ship, the Ville de Paris (City of Paris), loaded with silks, laces, fine wines, champagne, and Cognac. Verdier brothers had previously owned a silk ...
The red brick and central circular structure of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as seen from Yerba Buena Gardens. The Art Deco-style Pacific Telephone Building (1925) rises behind the museum. The San Francisco Zoo cares for a total of about 250 animal species, 39 of which have been deemed endangered or threatened. [3]
Locally the street is sometimes called Belden Lane, Belden Alley, or Belden Street. The surrounding neighborhood, which includes adjacent alleys and several blocks of Bush Street, is sometimes, though not universally, referred to as San Francisco's French Quarter for its historic ties to early French immigrants, and its popular contemporary French restaurants and institutions.
The Museum of the City of San Francisco is a nonprofit museum containing a collection of historic artifacts related to San Francisco. [1] It was founded by Gladys Hansen, who was the city archivist of San Francisco. The executive director is Richard Hansen, Gladys's son. [2]
The San Francisco Historical Society was founded in 1988 by historian Charles A. Fracchia. [1]In February 2002, the San Francisco Historical Society merged with the Museum of the City of San Francisco to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, [2] which the San Francisco municipal government recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco. [3]