San Francisco, CA Museums
Museums in San Francisco, CA
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Asian Art Museum200 Larkin St A visit to the Asian Art Museum is like touring Asia without jet lag. Arranged by country, the permanent collection starts with India, meanders eastward and ends with Japan. The order reflects a ma... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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California Palace of the Legion of HonorClement St. at 34th Ave. The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, a three-quarter-scale replica of the Legion of Honor in Paris, sits atop a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin headlands and downtown hills... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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The Exploratorium3601 Lyon St Exploratorium captures the imagination of kids and adults alike. This scienc museum, located in the Marina District, has more than 650 permanent exhibitions. You can learn about how the weather in ... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art151 3rd St You can’t miss the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Swiss architect Mario Botta’s distinctive redbrick building has a black-and-white turret on top, an extension of its fifth floor. Inside the t... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Steinhart Aquarium875 HOWARD STREET Get close to your favorite sea creatures and also some of the deadliest snakes. This aquarium showcases piranhas, pythons, pipefish, penguins, moray eels and snakes. At the Touch Tide Pool you can ... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Cable Car Museum1201 Mason St If you want to know how a cable car works, this is the place to learn. The worlds first cable car rests here and with it a concise explanation of how those little cable cars go halfway to the stars... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Ripleys Believe It or Not! Museum175 Jefferson St Santa Rosa native Robert Ripley, born in 1893, became an internationally famous traveler, artist, and storyteller known as a collector of the worlds most unusual oddities. At the San Francisco muse... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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de Young Museum50 Hagawara Tea Garden Drive A major cultural destination in since 1895, the de Young Museum re-opened in October 2005, newly housed in a facility designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architec... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Musee MecaniquePier 45 at end of Taylor Street | Fisherman's Wharf A penny for your thoughts? In addition to a melange of penny structures, this quirky, offbeat museum which had originally resided beneath the Cliff House at Pt. Lobos, has a variety of interesting ... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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California Academy of Sciences875 Howard St The California Academy of Sciences' Golden Gate Park location is closed so it can be rebuilt; it should re-open in 2008. While that location is closed, the museum is operating from this Howard Stre... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Wells Fargo History Museum420 Montgomery St Never mind that today Wells Fargo is one of the nation’s largest banks. It’s the image of the Wells Fargo stagecoach flying over rutted mountain roads that dominates company branding. The Wells Far... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf145 Jefferson St A trip to San Francisco is not complete without a trip to this attraction at Fishermans Wharf. It features a vast collection of wax models that look like significant figures throughout time. The ch... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Thomas Kinkade Gallery781 Beach St Tucked between the glitz and grit of Fishermans Wharf, you will find a small tranquil gallery painted forest green to offset the remarkably sparkling effects of light painted by the only gallery in... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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San Francisco Maritime Museum900 Beach St Located across from Ghirardelli Square and housed in a 1930s building that resembles a ship, this museum chronicles maritime history with photographs, miniature models of Navy ships and passenger ... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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Aquarium of the BayThe Embarcadero at Beach Steet Aquarium of the Bay is the brand new way to discover the Bay. Explore the wonders of San Francisco Bay as you walk through crystal clear tunnels surrounded by sharks, eels, octopi and thousands of... View: Details » | Save » | Email to Friend » |
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