In San Francisco, California, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum. SFMOMA is a non-profit institution that houses a globally known collection of modern and contemporary art, and it was the first museum on the West Coast to focus completely on the twentieth century. Over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts are currently in the museum's collection, which is expanding into the twenty-first century. The collection is on show in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of exhibition space, making it one of the largest museums in the United States and one of the largest for modern and contemporary art in the world.

At SFMOMA, you'll still discover some of your old favorites, such as "Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art", which includes works by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, but there's also a lot of new stuff to view. COVID-19, as well as the racism and injustice that were pushed to the surface in 2020, are addressed in an ongoing series by local artists called "Bay Area Walls". "Off the Wall", which converts images into sculptures and continues through September, and "Close to Home", which brings seven Bay Area artists together to create a shared experience of the pandemic and social upheaval of 2020, both run through September.

Location: 151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Website: sfmoma.org

The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, originally the de Young Museum, is a fine arts museum in San Francisco, California. It is part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, together with the Legion of Honor, and is located in Golden Gate Park. M. H. de Young, an early San Francisco newspaperman, was the inspiration for the de Young.

Because seeing all of the paintings, sculptures, carvings, and costumes at this fine art museum in one visit is practically impossible, you might want to start with the Frida Kahlo show, which is up until May. The show, which includes personal things such as pictures and drawings that were hidden for 50 years after her death in 1954, examines how appearances can be deceitful. The much-anticipated "Calder-Picasso" exhibit, which contains more than 100 sculptures, paintings, drawings, and graphics by Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso, is also on view through May.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to live in an AI-driven society, don't miss "Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI", which is on display through the end of June. The "Hung Liu: Golden Gate" exhibit, which will run through the end of the summer, will feature paintings depicting international and domestic migration, as well as those who came to California "from both land and water".

Location: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118

Website: deyoung.famsf.org

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture[1] is an Asian art museum located in San Francisco, California. It was created in the 1960s by Olympian Avery Brundage and now houses over 18,000 works of art, some of which are over 6,000 years old. The company's logo is an upside-down letter A that also resembles a letter V with a line through it.

Over 18,000 works of Asian art are on display at the Asian Art Museum, ranging from multimedia projects to antique pottery. On the bottom level, you'll discover meaningful multimedia reflections on topics that concern us all, such as personal resilience, time, political upheaval, and inclusivity. There's also survived artwork from shipwrecks in the 15th and 17th centuries, including about two dozen 12th-century stone reliefs from Central Vietnam that rested for nearly 120 years at the bottom of the Arabian Sea.

Location: 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102

Website: asianart.org

The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum located at 736 Mission Street and Yerba Buena Lane in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) area. The museum, which opened in 1984, is housed in the old Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and renovated by Daniel Libeskind, coupled with a new extension. The museum's purpose is to employ exhibitions and educational activities to make the variety of the Jewish experience relevant to a twenty-first-century audience.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum was established in 1984 and spent almost two decades in a tiny exhibition space near San Francisco's waterfront. The museum began a planning process in 1989 to meet the expanding community demand for its programming. As a result, the decision was made to build a larger, more centrally placed institution with more exhibitions, an education space, and other program areas such as live music, theater, dance, literary events, and cinema. The museum moved to a new 63,000-square-foot structure in downtown San Francisco in June 2008.

Location: 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Website: thecjm.org

The California Academy of Sciences is a research center and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that has approximately 46 million specimens, making it one of the world's largest natural history museums. The Academy was founded in 1853 as a learned organization and continues to do extensive original research. The facility is located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The Academy's main structure in Golden Gate Park, which was completely reconstructed in 2008, encompasses 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2). The California Academy of Sciences had roughly 500 workers and $33 million in yearly income in early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The California Academy of Sciences not only serves as a source of public scientific education through its museum, but it also has a research arm, the Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability (IBSS), which conducts research in taxonomy, phylogenetics, and biodiversity studies. Although one component of the IBSS is visible to museum visitors at the scientific "project lab" display, the majority of the research takes place "behind the scenes" in labs and facilities that are not open to the public. In reality, most patrons are unaware that research and administrative facilities make up approximately half of the Academy's physical structure.

Location: 55 Music Concourse Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118

Website: calacademy.org

This little museum honors the history of one of San Francisco's most misunderstood neighborhoods. Discover how the Tenderloin became home to the world's biggest collection of single-room occupancy hotels, the legendary jazz artists who performed in the clubs, and the political and social movement that began there. The Compton Cafeteria Riot, which occurred before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, was one of the earliest LGBT-related riots in American history. On the corner of Taylor and Turk, there's a plaque commemorating the rebellion. During the lockdown, the Tenderloin Museum featured a multimedia installation developed by Bay Area artists.

Your timed ticket must be reserved in advance. Inquire about the walking tour, which includes stops at the hotel where Muhammad Ali used to spar as well as well-known recording studios.

Location: 398 Eddy St, San Francisco, CA 94102

Website: tenderloinmuseum.org

Discover when and why 7,000 original pieces of cartoon memorabilia were made, including comic strips, comic books, anime, political cartoons, graphic novels, and underground comics, and more. Art by Gemma Correll, including pieces from "The Worrier's Guide to Life", and Harmony Becker's artwork from George Takei's graphic memoir about his harrowing experience in Japanese internment camps are currently on display. There are also in-person workshops during normal hours, but they will all be held online for the foreseeable future.

There will be no advance ticket sales, but the museum will only let 33 people in at a time, with admission to the galleries spaced 10 minutes apart. The museum is only open on weekends and costs $10 for adults ($7 for residents of San Francisco). Pay what you want on the first Tuesday of each month.

Location: 781 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Website: cartoonart.org

Madame Tussauds San Francisco is a wax museum in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf district. On June 26, 2014, the attraction debuted as the 17th Madame Tussauds museum in the globe. Wax figurines of renowned people from film, music, politics, popular culture, and athletics are on display at the attraction. It also honors "The Spirit of San Francisco" with wax sculptures of past and present local artists, musicians, and activists.

Madame Tussauds is also historically significant! It's been around for 200 years, and the woman behind it spent the French Revolution in jail alongside her mother. You'll witness a number of celebrities while touring the museum, including music legends Jimmy Hendrix, Taylor Swift, and Madonna. Joe Montana, Steph Curry, Janis Joplin, and Robin Williams are among the revered hometown heroes of San Francisco. After being locked at home for over a year, it turns out that playing tourist in one's own city can be rather enjoyable.

Location: 145 Jefferson St, San Francisco, CA 94133

Website: madametussauds.com

The Cable Car Museum is a free museum located in San Francisco's Nob Hill area. It is located at 1201 Mason Street and has historical and educational displays about the San Francisco cable car system, which may be considered a functional museum in and of itself.

The museum is part of a larger complex that also includes the cable car power building and car depot. The car depot is closed to the public, but two galleries allow visitors to see the power plant from above and descend below Washington and Mason streets to see the vast cavern where the haulage cables are run out to the street by large sheaves. The Friends of the Cable Car Museum has been running the museum since 1974. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. between April 1 and September 30, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. between October 1 and March 31, with the exception of select public holidays. A second entrance leads to the museum's main floor, which is handicapped accessible.

Location: 1201 Mason St, San Francisco, CA 94108

Website: cablecarmuseum.org

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, sometimes known as the Legion of Honor, is a museum in San Francisco, California. The Legion of Honor is part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which also manages the de Young Museum, and is located in Lincoln Park.

The Legion of Honour, a museum as unique and enlightening as San Francisco itself, houses a wonderfully varied collection that includes Monet's water lilies and John Cage soundscapes, ancient Iraqi ivories, and Robert Crumb's counterculture comics. Upstairs, there are big displays of old masters and Impressionists but don't miss the Legion's Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts collection, which has 90,000 works on paper ranging from Rembrandt's sketches to Ed Ruscha's graphic designs. The setting of the Legion is as good as the painting. There are spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean, and pathways lead to the Lands End Lookout, which offers breathtaking vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge. On a hot day, head below the viewpoint to the demolished Sutro Baths, previously San Francisco's most fashionable swimming spot.

Location: 100 34th Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121

Website: legionofhonor.famsf.org