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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.
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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]
San Francisco History Podcast. "Shaping San Francisco, the lost history of San Francisco". "Found SF wiki project". "Historic Pictures of 19th Century San Francisco". Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum. "Historic San Francisco photographs, including the 1906 Earthquake and Fire". JB Monaco, a local photographer during that period.
Oldest residence in San Diego. [45] Mission San Miguel Arcángel: San Miguel: 1821 Church The original church burned down in 1806 and was rebuilt out of adobe from 1816 to 1821. [46] Convento Building: Los Angeles: 1822 Convent: The adobe convent is the only original building left of Mission San Fernando Rey de España. [47] Neary-Rodriguez ...
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]
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, closed in 2011 [6] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [7]
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]