San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Address:151 Third Street, between Mission and Howard, San Francisco
- Hours:Open Thurs - Tues. Closed Wednesdays and major holidays
- Admission:Adults: US$18. Admission is free the first Tuesday of the month.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has always strived to be an eclectic, unconventional museum, since it opened in 1935, and a visit here will surely be a unique experience. After all, this is a museum that took a chance on then-unknowns like Matthew Barney and his poetic videos involving industrial quantities of Vaseline, and Olafur Eliasson's outer-space installations.
The permanent collection includes work by all the great American and European artists but is particularly strong in American abstract expressionism, with major works by Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston. The permanent collection also contains several works by Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and by Bay Area artists Robert Arneson and Richard Diebenkorn. Willem de Kooning, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol are also represented.
A must-see is SFMOMA’s standout photography collection, which features works by Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, and William Klein. On your way in, be sure to check out the vibrant comic-book murals in the main atrium.
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Short Version: Worth every penny, saves you plenty of money, especially if you are there a while.
The details: The one problem I will share was completely my fault which is this: Don't give yourself only three days for San Francisco! We didn't get to everything we wanted to including the MOMA which we had free admission to thanks to this awesome city pass. This pass gives you free transportation for a week! That alone could pay for itself if you are there for the full seven days. But on top of that, we were able to go to the Exploratorium (incredible hands on science museum), the California Academy of Sciences (another incredible science museum with a man made rainforest you can walk through and a planetarium all in one building), and a few other great attractions. Each attraction is around $25 or more so if you get to all of them you are once again getting your money's worth. I highly recommend this pass to anybody who is visiting San Fran for the first time and is planning on visiting some of these awesome attractions (if you are not, you can just get a metro pass for three days to get around the city).
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This is definitely a top-flight museum. But even more impressive is the building itself. A gorgeous setting and worth a visit in its own right.
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The paradedign exhibit was very interesting. Looking forward to the Matisse, Picasso, and Parisian avante-garde collection in May!
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Located in SoMA (South of Market Street) neighborhood, on 3rd Street, between Mission and Howard streets, SFMOMA is easily accessible by car and public transportation. It's close to the galleries and museums that cluster around Yerba Buena Arts District. A café and shop are located on the ground floor.
