A city of murals and painted houses, with a modern art museum built on Silicon Valley money and the Pacific at the end of the park.
Mario Botta's 1995 museum, more than doubled by Snøhetta in 2016, with the Fisher family's collection: Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Gerhard Richter, Agnes Martin.
Herzog & de Meuron's copper-clad museum (2005), slowly turning green in the park: American art, textiles, and art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
A copy of the Palais de la Légion d'honneur in Paris, built in 1924 on the cliffs above the Golden Gate: European painting, and a large collection of Rodin.
One of the largest collections of Asian art in the West, in the old main library converted by Gae Aulenti in 2003.
Rooms, ruins and curiosities: the city's other museum.
In 1934 more than 25 artists, paid by the first New Deal art programme, covered the base of the tower with murals of California at work, some of them pointed enough to cause a scandal.
A short alley in the Mission painted from end to end since the 1970s, many of its walls about Central America and the neighbourhood.
A free hall of antique coin-operated machines, from fortune tellers to mechanical orchestras. Bring quarters.
Stanford University's free museum, with one of the largest Rodin collections in the world, about 45 minutes south.
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, in a former printing plant reworked by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, across the bay.
SFMOMA at opening → Yerba Buena Gardens → the Asian Art Museum → tacos and murals in the Mission → de Young and its tower before closing.