San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The 1995 [[Mario Botta]]-designed building with the 2016 [[Snøhetta (company)|Snøhetta]]-designed addition behind it The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The collection is displayed in of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art.

The museum was founded in 1935 with galleries in the Veterans Building in Civic Center. In 1995, the museum opened in its Mario Botta-designed home in the SoMa district. On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure for a major expansion project by Snøhetta architects, the museum re-opened to the public with more than double the gallery space and almost six times as much public space as the previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanding collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Published 1937
    [San Francisco? San Francisco museum of art, c1937]
    3 p. l., 9-43, [1] p. incl. front., illus. 30 x 24 cm.
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    Published 1937
    [San Francisco? San Francisco museum of art, c1937]
    1 online resource (3 p. l., 9-43, [1] p. incl. front., illus.)
    “...San Francisco Museum of Art...”
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