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Article #321: Explore the Museums at San Francisco

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San Franciscos museums, arts and historic boats.
galleries are a great departure from Experience the Wild West at the
commercial attractions and offer the extraordinary Wells Fargo History Museum.
visitors to discover the history and art It is one of the Californias largest bank
of this amazing city. You will have a houses, an old west history museum at the
unique personal experience when you banks head office. View the Concord Coach
admire the works done at the Asian Art used by the bank during 1800's and
Museum or take part in science experiment displays featuring gold rush vestiges
at the Exploratorium. You may choose any including; photographs, mining equipment
attraction, it is sure that it would with ore. The Wells Fargo History Museum
inspire and provide you an understanding has free entry and is open to the public.
of great art and history of San If modern art interests you, do visit to
Francisco. the unbelievable San Francisco Museum of
Asian Art Museum in the Civic Center is Modern Art (SFMOMA) perhaps the perfect
one of the largest museum devoted to way to spend an afternoon. This South of
Asian artwork in Western world. Different Market area museum boasts for about
mediums have been represented with 23,000 pieces with works from Matisse,
sculptures, paintings, bronzes and jade Pollock and de Kooning. The museum
objects by all hands. All areas of Asia further houses a wide set of photography
symbolize and focus on works from China, from the likes of Ansel Adams and few
Korea, and Japan. Discover 6,000 years of other remarkable modern photographers.
Asian history through works of art at The museum is open to the public on a
this outstanding museum. normal fee and Thursday night's entrance
Visit the seas and learn everything about is half off.
sailing, whaling and fishing at the San For an exclusive and interestingly
Francisco Maritime National Historical amusing day, visit the Exploratorium in
Part Museum. This museum is located at the Marina District at the Palace of Fine
the west end of Fishermans Wharf. The Arts. Rated the best science museum in
best features are that the museum is the world by Scientific American
shaped like an Art Deco shop and it magazine, this museum is an interactive
offers the visitors interesting videos, quest in the science. Children and
storytelling, interactive displays and parents would thrill at the original
models. Visit some of the historic ships exhibits requiring participation. The
by moving two blocks east to Hyde Street Exploratorium makes science so amusing
Pier. Here you might look and learn about that it is hard to pull yourself away
the museum's renovation progress of these from this hands-on science fair setting.






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