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The Legion of Honor was inspired by the French pavilion, a replica of the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris, at San Francisco's Panama–Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The museum opened in 1924 in the Beaux Arts–style building designed by George Applegarth on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. In 1995, the Legion of Honor ...
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.
The FIDM Museum & Library, Inc. was founded in 1978 to serve the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) and the community. Since January 1999, the museum's operations have been separate from the Library in order to offer more specialized care and attention to the specific needs of a costume collection, and museum-trained personnel have been added to the staff.
The Costume Institute’s 2020 exhibition, About Time: Fashion and Duration, showcases 150 years of fashion history culled from its archive and presented along a “disruptive” timeline.
Art and fashion: statement pieces, in January 2025, with a fundraising gala to follow in March, it was impossible to not draw comparisons to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume ...
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 .
Hartley, who was both a dancer and costume designer for the San Francisco Ballet in the 1940s and 1950s, searched second-hand shops, traveled to Europe to purchase dance artifacts, and in 1947, established the San Francisco Dance Archives. As the collection grew, it expanded to include all of the performing arts and in 1975 moved into a branch ...
The exhibit will open to the public at the museum on Monday, Jan. 6 and run through Friday, Jan. 17 … ‘A Complete Unknown’ Costumes on Display in January at L.A.’s ASU FIDM Museum — Film ...