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Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
art museum · San Francisco Closed now
The Asian Art Museum is a city-owned museum of art from across Asia, founded on the collection Avery Brundage gave to San Francisco and opened in 1966. Since 2003 it occupies the former Main Library of 1917 on Civic Center, remodelled by Gae Aulenti, where galleries show works from South Asia, the Himalayas, China, Korea and Japan.
Official site
art museum · San Francisco Closed now
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened in 1935 as the first museum on the West Coast devoted to 20th-century art. Since 1995 it has occupied Mario Botta's building on Third Street, extended in 2016 by a wing designed by Snøhetta, and its galleries show painting, sculpture, photography, design and media art.
Official siteTickets available
historic building · San Francisco Open now · 22:00
The San Francisco Ferry Building is a ferry terminal on the Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street, designed by A. Page Brown and completed in 1898, with a 245-foot clock tower. After a restoration that ended in 2003, its 660-foot skylit nave holds a food hall with shops and restaurants, and ferries still leave from the piers behind it.
Free entryNo ticket needed
restaurant · San Francisco Closed now
Hard Rock Cafe San Francisco is the city's branch of the Hard Rock Cafe restaurant chain, first opened in San Francisco in 1984 and now at the entrance to Pier 39 on the waterfront. It serves American dishes among displays of rock and pop music memorabilia and has a Rock Shop selling the chain's merchandise.
Official siteTickets available
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