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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.
Austin, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia (metropolitan area); Birmingham, Alabama; Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois (metropolitan area ...
The biology collection contains 200,000 specimens, including both fauna and flora, with the majority of the collection made up of insects. There are two specimens of the extinct great auk, [18] an almost complete skeleton of an extinct moa, passenger pigeons, [19] and a large collection of Quaternary (c.125,000 years ago) specimens from the Yorkshire region including the remains of elephants ...
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
140 New Montgomery Street is a 26-floor Art Deco mixed-use office tower located in San Francisco's South of Market district, close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [2]
The Wells Fargo History Museum is a museum operated by Wells Fargo in its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California, that feature exhibits about the company's history. Some of the museums' displays include original stagecoaches , photographs, gold nuggets and mining artifacts, the Pony Express , telegraphs and historic bank artifacts.
The bank's corporate headquarters will continue to be in San Francisco and it has no plans to move out of the city, the bank said in an emailed statement to Reuters. Wells Fargo also said that it ...
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 ...