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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.
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California.Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.
At the end of May 2016, the GLBT Historical Society closed its archives at 657 Mission St. in preparation for a move to an expanded space with improved facilities for researchers and staff at 989 Market St. in San Francisco. The archives reopened at the end of June 2016 at the new location, which offers 6,500-square-foot (600 m 2) devoted to ...
Life Sciences Foundation (LSF) was a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that was established in 2011 to collect, preserve, interpret, and promote the history of biotechnology. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] LSF conducted historical research, maintained archives and published historically relevant materials and information.
San Francisco Evening Bulletin; San Francisco Examiner; San Francisco Herald; San Francisco Independent; San Francisco Progress (1918–1988) [7] [8] SF Weekly; Shinsekai asahi shinbun (New World Sun, 1932–1941) [1] Shin sekai (New World, 1912–1932) [1] Sinhan Minbo; South San Francisco enterprise (1907–1938) [1] Star Presidian (1952 ...
In 1969, another new building, Cowell Hall, was added to the site. In 1976, several new galleries were opened, and the following year, in 1977, the "fish roundabout" was constructed. [citation needed] Before the old building being torn down in 2005, there was a Life through Time gallery, housing a large display on evolution and paleontology.
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The only standing man, a survivor, is thought to be the sculptor's representation of Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald. [2] Segal's friends posed for the casts, so they are not emaciated like the corpses found at the liberation of Buchenwald.