San Francisco Museums
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Museums in San Francisco, California.
San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum contains an extensive collection of folk art from around the world. Visitors can see the evolution of art throughout the ages by seeing the rotating exhibitions offered here.
This San Francisco museum is home to the world's largest privately owned collection of mechanical instruments and antique arcade games. It consists of more than 300 items, ranging from orchestrations, coin operated pianos, antique slot machines, and animations, down to small bird boxes.
San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has grown from a traveling collection of arts in 1984 to the 90 exhibits containing 6,000 items.
A highlight of any visit to Fisherman's Wharf, the Wax Museum features wax sculptures of celebrities, U.S. presidents, world leaders, and is particularly known for its chamber of horrors.
This museum was founded in 1895 and houses American sculpture and decorative art, African art, American paintings, Oceanic art, textiles and much more. It is open Tuesday through Sunday, 9:30am to 5:15 pm, Fridays until 8:45pm.
Ripley's Believe It or Not features two floors of galleries, exhibits, interactive displays and illusions. Also inside in the Odditorium, which contains unusual finds from around the world.
The Asian Art Museum is largest museum in the western world devoted to Asian art. Inside are roughly 15,000 items, some dating back as far as 6,000 years ago. Some of the exhibits change throughout the year, including art works, quilts, masks and jewelry for countries like India, China, Japan, Iran, Afghanistan and Malaysia.
Within this ship-shaped museum, mast sections, jutting spars and ships figureheads are arranged among the colorful fish and gleaming tiles of muralist Hilaire Hiler's expressionist vision of Atlantis.
Constructed in memory of California soldiers who died during World War I, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor boasts a collection of art spanning 4,000 years. It also holds one of the largest collections of prints and drawings in the United States and boasts Rodin's Thinker statue.
Housing modern exhibitions year-round, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art also has extensive permanent collections. The unique building where the museum is located was created by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The hours are Monday through Sunday from 11am to 5:45pm except Wednesdays when it is closed. Thursday evenings are open later, until 8:45pm.
A museum of science, art,and human perception, the Exploratorium encourages people of all ages to explore and educate themselves through interactive displays. Exhibits range from cooking to space to weather to sports.
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