Explore Arts in San Francisco Museums

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Charismatic city of San Francisco has lot to offer. That’s why its guests never go back with an impression of disappointment. While enjoying holidays in San Francisco, you would never find dearth of adventure and exploration. There are numerous museums that allow you to explore arts, culture and history of San Francisco. Following are few worth visiting museums in the city:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts

As the name suggests, this museum focuses on arts. Every year numerous art lovers visit this museum especially to take a look at the magnificent collection of modern arts. This majestic museum was established in 1935 and exhibits over 26,000 art works. While walking around the museum, you would come across wide variety of paintings, sculptures and works of architecture, photography and design. These art pieces are created by famous artists such as Clyfford Still, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Henri

Matisse and Ansel Adams. One of the most notable exhibitions in the museum is the contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher. Art lovers are planning holidays to San Francisco especially to take a look at the works of Richard Diebenkorn, Alexander Calder and Chuck Close in this exhibition.    

Museum of Performance and Design

This is another art museum in San Francisco that strives to educate people about the impact of importance of performing arts in human life. This is among the most recently opened museums in the city.  It features several temporary and permanent exhibitions. Some of most the notable permanent exhibitions are:

·        Stars of the Early San Francisco Stage

·        Maestro, Photographic Portraits of Tom Zimberoff

·        150 Years of Dance in California

·        San Francisco in Song

Another highlight of the museum is performing arts library. It features archives, reference collection, theatrical design research collection and special collections. While browsing through these collections, you can take a closer look at posters, photographs, videotapes, radio interviews, sheet music and clippings.

Cartoon Art Museum

If you want to explore the arts of comics and cartoons, visiting this museum is a must. People planning San Francisco holidays with their kids must add this museum to the itinerary. The museum was established in 1984 and is strategically situated in the Yerba Buena Gardens. It features more than 6000 pieces. While walking through the alleys of the museum, you would come across newspaper comic strips and original comic book pages and animation cels.