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Bay Area Discovery Museum
557 E. Fort Baker
Sausalito, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-487-4398 Hands-on exhibits for the family focusing on natural sciences, art and
multimedia. Attractions include exploring San Francisco Bay, sneaking around a maze, creating innovative art projects and more. Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Summer hours: June 13 - September 28); Tuesday-Thursday
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Friday-Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (September 28-June 15).
Blackhawk Automotive Museum
3700 Blackhawk Plaza Circle
Danville, CA
Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 925-736-2280 An architectural masterpiece houses the nonprofit Blackhawk Automotive Museum, which displays more than 120 classic and exotic automobiles and the world's
only automotive art gallery. Open Wednesday-Sunday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia
214 California Drive
Burlingame, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 650-347-2301 Featuring the largest public display of Pez candy dispensers in the world, this museum showcases a candy dispenser that has become an icon for
American culture. Visit the gift shop. Open Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 PM, closed Sunday-Monday. Free.
California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
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San Francisco, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-750-7145 Explore the ocean's sea life, view stars during the day, survey African animals
and wild California, ride an earthquake, travel back three billion years in time, or ogle the exhibit, "Sharks of the Tropics." A new permanent exhibit, "Earthquake: Are You Ready for the
Big One?," sheds light on the Earth's most fascinating and terrifying natural phenomenon. Open daily 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Golden Gate Park
Explorer Pass offering discount admission for this and other attractions in the Park, is available at the box office. CityPass ticket booklet offering 50% discount for this and five other attractions
throughout San Francisco is also available.
California Historical Society
678 Mission St,
San Francisco, CA Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-357-1848 California's official state historical society probes the past with exhibition galleries, a research library, an art collection, archives and a book store. Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 AM - 5:00
PM.
California Palace of The Legion of Honor
Lincoln Park
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34th Avenue and Clement Street
San Francisco, CA
Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-750-3600 Ancient and European art from 2500 B.C. through the 20th century is showcased. Among the many artists represented are El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Monet and
Picasso. The museum also boasts one of the world's leading collections of Rodin sculpture. Dramatic views of the Golden Gate and The City make this a must see museum. Multilingual tours available. Organ
Recital Series at 4:00 PM Saturday and Sunday. Open Tuesday - Sunday 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM. City Pass ticket booklet offering 50% discount for this and five other attractions throughout San Francisco is
available at the box office.
Cartoon Art Museum
814 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA
Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-CAR-TOON One of two museums in America dedicated to the preservation, education and exhibition of cartoon art in all forms, the Cartoon Art Museum includes a CD-ROM
lab and research library. Ongoing exhibit, "Selections from the Permanent Collection," provides a glimpse at various forms of cartoon and comic art. Open Tuesday - Friday 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM,
Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Sunday 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM, closed major holidays.
Coyote Point Museum For Environmental Education
1651 Coyote Point Drive
San Mateo, CA
Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 650-342-7755 Located on a rocky promontory in a scenic park overlooking San Francisco Bay, the museum provides a multisensory introduction to the natural history of the
Bay Area. Interactive exhibits, live native animals, gardens, picnic facilities, trails and views of the bay round out this unique museum experience. Open 10:00 AM - 5:00 pm Tuesday - Saturday, Noon - 5:00 pm Sunday,
closed Monday; except some holidays. International Children's Art Museum
World Trade Center, Suite 103
San Francisco, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-772-9977 A museum for adults as well as children, showcasing works by child artists from around the globe, and by children who participate in the museum's
worldwide "Paintbrush Diplomacy" program. Drop-in international art workshops every Saturday; call for schedule. Monday-Friday 11:00 AM - 5:00 pm; Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 pm. Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Fort Mason Center
Landmark Building C
San Francisco, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-775-0991 Witty and elegant exhibitions of contemporary craft and
American folk art coalesce with traditional ethnic art from home and abroad. Open Tuesday-Friday and Sunday 11:00 AM - 5:00 pm, Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 pm, closed Monday except for gift shop; Saturday 10:00 AM - Noon
and first Wednesday of the month free, with galleries open 11:00 AM - 8:00 pm. Napa Valley Museum
55 Presidents Circle
Yountville, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 707-944-0500 Opened in its new
facility in January 1998, this museum concentrates on the culture, art and history of Napa Valley and its people through collection, preservation, exhibition and
education.
Oakland Museum of California
Oak and 10th Streets
Oakland, CA Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 888-625-6873 This architectural gem by Kevin Roche houses major collections of
California environment, history and art. Exhibitions focus on California art, ecology and culture. Public offerings include festivals, family programs, tours, symposia and lectures. Wednesday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00
pm, first Friday until 9:00 pm, Sunday Noon - 5:00 pm. San Francisco Maritime Museum
900 Beach Street
San Francisco, CA
Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-556-3002 Examine meticulously built ship models, large ship relics, beautifully carved and painted figureheads, photographs (including three rare city panoramas),
paintings, maps, scrimshaw, whaling gear and samples of sailor's handicrafts. Daily 10:00 AM - 5:00 pm. Free. Study books, ship plans, oral histories, photographs, films and manuscripts in the Maritime
Museum Library's public reading room, Building E, Fort Mason Center. Call 556-9870. Ongoing "Sparks, Waves & Wizards: Communications at Sea." An exhibition that tracks the history of maritime
communications, from semaphore to satellite. Hyde Street Pier One block north of Hyde Street cable car turnaround (Fisherman's Wharf) 556-3002. Experience San Francisco's seafaring past aboard the ships
that helped build The City: the recently restored 1886 square-rigger Balcutha, the 1895 lumber schooner C.A. Thayer, the 1891 scow schooner Alma, and the 1890 steam ferry Eureka. Daily 10:00 AM - 5:00 pm, until 6:00 pm
during summer. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-357-4000 Located in a spectacular building, SFMOMA offers the
West Coast's most comprehensive collection of 20th century art, complemented by shopping at the Museum Store and dining at Café Museo. 11:00 AM - 6:00 pm, until 9:00 pm Thursday; closed Wednesday and major holidays.
The Ansel Adams Center for Photography
655 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA Date(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-495-7000 The Friends of Photography serves as a forum for the
intersection of images and ideas, promoting visual experience by presenting, analyzing and interpreting photography as the fundamental medium of visual experience. This mission is addressed through exhibitions,
publications and education programs. Open daily 11:00 AM - 5:00 pm; until 8:00 pm first Thursday of each month. Wells Fargo History Museum
Wells Fargo Bank .
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CADate(s): ONGOING Phone: 415-396-2619 Two levels of the bank's headquarters brim with an
assortment of artifacts from the time of Wells Fargo's founding to the present. Monday-Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 pm; closed on bank holidays. Free. |
