 Left to Right: Koopman, Quietus; Mission Street Mural, Embaracadero sculputes |
| San Francisco Art and Culture is like no other city. No where else in the world will you be able to and walk two blocks down into Little Italy and walk into Chinatown where there is diversity like no toher. The following are general attractions in San Francisco that express the culure and true artwork that The City inscribes. |
USS PampanitoLocated at Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf, the USS pampanito is operated by the Maritime Park association and is the most historic veseel ever to grace the waters of San Francisco Bay. Musch of the equipment on board has been restored to 1945 to represent the golden age of World War 2 submarine development. Be sure to engulf yourself in the "red room" where the atmosphere of the cramped quarters paired with buystling waves on San Francisco Bayt paired with riveting audio stories from former USS Pampanito Sailers themselves. See if you can catch the actual procalaimiation of war after the attack on Pearl Harbor and a transmittal of war time instructions next to the authentic coded typewriter. Such an experience will give new appreciation for the men and women who serve in the forces. The San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park at Hyde Street Pier is the only floating National Park in the United States. |
Legion of HonorCollections contain mainly European art mostly French. the distinguishing collection is from Rodin, a French sculptor. The Thinker, a courtyard masterpiece, is the centerpiece of the Legion structure. Other works in the fine arts museum including Rembrandt, Boucher, Renoir, Monet, and 20th century artists such as Braque and Picasso. The building structure itself is a truely amazing sight and is a three-quarters scale of the Palais de la Legion d Honneur in Paris. Theplaza and courtyard is home to many weddings and celebratory events. |
SF MoMaAfter occupying the upper floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Civic Center for the first sixty years of its inception, the museum moved to its current location in 1995 under excupatory expansion and visionary creativity adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SoMa district. Famed Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the modernist architectural structure and featurs a skylit cylinder bridge crossed by a steel atrium which provides natural light to many of its galleries. SFMOMA is the only West Coast museum devoted to 20th century art. Prominent artsis featured in SFMOMA include Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Eva Hesse. Strongholds of Paul Klee, Philip Guston, and Ellsworth Kelly are housed in the 225,000 square foot building. |
de Young MuseumThe architecture of the building itself, rebuilt and completed in 195 features a unique system of ball bearing sliding paltes that dampens fault movement and absorbs kinetic energy created by moving paltes and converts it into harmless heat. San Francisco twice defeated bond measures that would have funded its reconstruction and eventually privitized support allowed the de young Museum to remain in Golden gate Park. Its controversial architecture is a juxtapose against the ever-evolving sustainable green inspiration The museum houses fine arts collections of contemporary American, colonial and late 19th century to early 20th century Californian art and crafts. The de Young museum is free to the public every first Tuesday of every month! |
San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Exploratorium Asian Art Museum of SF Cartoon Art Museum California Academy of Sciences |
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