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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]
Thomas Patrick Campbell (born July 12, 1962) [1] is the director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. He served as the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2009 and 2017. [2]
The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. [3] The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research. [4]
John W. Dwinelle led a group of prominent Californian intellectuals in founding the society at Santa Clara University in June 1871.. The California Historical Society was founded in June 1871 by a group of prominent Californian politicians and professors at the Santa Clara University (then the College of Santa Clara), led by Californian Assemblyman John W. Dwinelle (an influential founder of ...
Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco built in 1929; designed by The Parkinsons in a Moderne style 90: Filipino Christian Church: Filipino Christian Church: January 4, 2019 : 301 N. Union Ave. Westlake
Govan was born in 1963 in North Adams, Massachusetts, and was raised in the Washington D.C. area, attending Sidwell Friends School. [1] [2]He majored in art history and fine arts at Williams College, where he met Thomas Krens, who was then director of the Williams College Museum of Art.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
Jay Xu (Chinese: 许杰; born 1963) [1] is a Chinese-born American art museum director, art historian, and curator. [2] He is the first Chinese-American curator of a major museum in the United States. [3] Xu is the director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, since 2008. [4]