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===Museums=== {{Further|List of museums in San Francisco Bay Area, California#San Francisco}} [[File:California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 02.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Legion of Honor (museum)|California Palace of the Legion of Honor]], part of the [[Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco]]]] The [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]] (SFMOMA) houses 20th century and contemporary works of art. It moved to its current building in the [[South of Market, San Francisco|South of Market]] neighborhood in 1995 and attracted more than 600,000 visitors annually.<ref>{{cite web |title = Corporate Sponsorship – Why Sponsor |publisher=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |url = http://www.sfmoma.org/membership/corp_sponsors_why_sponsor.html |access-date =June 14, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071229011210/http://www.sfmoma.org/membership/corp_sponsors_why_sponsor.html |archive-date = December 29, 2007}}</ref> SFMOMA closed for renovation and expansion in 2013. The museum reopened on May 14, 2016, with an addition, designed by [[Snøhetta (company)|Snøhetta]], that has doubled the museum's size.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/about/our-expansion-2016/|title=Our Expansion · SFMOMA|website=SFMOMA}}</ref> The [[California Palace of the Legion of Honor|Palace of the Legion of Honor]] holds primarily European antiquities and works of art at its [[Lincoln Park (San Francisco)|Lincoln Park]] building modeled after its [[Palais de la Légion d'Honneur|Parisian namesake]]. The [[M. H. de Young Memorial Museum|de Young Museum]] in Golden Gate Park features American decorative pieces and anthropological holdings from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, while Asian art is housed in the [[Asian Art Museum of San Francisco|Asian Art Museum]]. Opposite the de Young stands the [[California Academy of Sciences]], a natural history museum that also hosts the [[Morrison Planetarium]] and [[Steinhart Aquarium]]. Located on Pier 15 on the Embarcadero, the [[Exploratorium]] is an interactive science museum. The [[Contemporary Jewish Museum]] is a non-collecting institution that hosts a broad array of temporary exhibitions. On Nob Hill, the [[San Francisco Cable Car Museum|Cable Car Museum]] is a working museum featuring the cable car powerhouse, which drives the cables.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sanfrancisco.net/museums|title=Museums in San Francisco|publisher=SanFrancisco.net|access-date=November 15, 2015}}</ref> [[Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts]] was founded in 1998 and is part of the California College of the Arts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts |url=https://wattis.org/read-about-us |access-date=February 20, 2024 |website=wattis.org}}</ref>
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