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The museum is located at the Don Chee Way and Steuart Station, across the street from the Ferry Building. Admission to the museum is free. In addition to the permanent collection of San Francisco railway artifacts from Market Street Railway Company and San Francisco Municipal Railway, the museum features exhibits such as a retrospective on the ...
Barron Park Garden Railway – Palo Alto [43] Golden Gate Model Railroad Club – San Francisco [44] Golden Gate Lionel Railroad Club- San Mateo [45] West Bay Model Railroad Association – Menlo Park
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 museum is open on Tuesdays from 5PM to 8PM, and Saturdays from 10AM to 4PM. [5] The Northern California Bluegrass Society (NCBS) and the South Bay Historic Railroad Society sponsor a free bluegrass and related music jam at the Edward Peterman Museum at the Santa Clara Historic Train Depot on most 2nd Saturdays of the month from 12-3pm.
Melbourne tram 648 on Market Street during the first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of historic streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves line — the most popular service of its kind in all of North ...
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The Lands End unit of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) is adjacent to Lincoln Park, a San Francisco city park that includes a city-owned golf course and the Legion of Honor Museum, as well as the Fort Miley Military Reservation, which largely consists of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. The GGNRA land largely surrounds Lincoln ...
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 ...