San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is located in San Francisco, California. The museum opened during the year 1935, by the Diego Rivera which was established as permanent collection. Bender who was the museum’s trustee, started to make donations of more than 1,100 objects to museum and endowed the purchase fund before the death in 1941. Grace Morley stayed as the museum’s director till the year 1958. The further directors were Neal Benezra, George D. Culler, Gerald Nordland, Henry T. Hopkins, David A. Ross and John R. Lane.
For its 46 years, the museum occupied the upper floors of War Memorial Veterans building in Civic center. The museum spaced “Modern” to the title in 1975 after establishing a famous representation. In 1994, museum moved to its present location at Third Street, near to Yerba Buena Gardens in Soma district and the show piece facility designed by the Mario Botta. Read the rest of this entry »