San Francisco Free Museum Weekend (thru Dec 4)

The Asian Art Museum will waive admission on Dec. 4 as part of San Francisco Free Museum Weekend. Photo: Felix Uribe / Special to The Chronicle

The following is an excerpt from the 11/07/22 SF Chronicle:

By Tony Bravo

The Asian Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have announced the creation of the San Francisco Free Museum Weekend, which will feature 21 organizations over the weekend of Dec. 3 and 4.

The two-day event is being underwritten by anonymous donors so that no participating institution will have to suffer a financial loss.

On Dec. 3, the institutions that will waive admission costs include the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s de Young Museum and Legion of Honor; Cartoon Art Museum; Museum of Craft and Design; the Walt Disney Family Museum; California Academy of Sciences; GLBT Historical Society Museum; American Bookbinders Museum: Letterform Archive; SF Camerawork; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts: Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco and the Minnesota Street Project.

On Dec. 4, downtown museums with free admissions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Contemporary Jewish Museum; Museum of African Diaspora; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Children’s Creativity Museum ; Asian Art Museum; and Exploratorium. Special exhibitions on view that will also be free for museumgoers include retrospectives of painters Diego Rivera and Joan Brown at SFMOMA and a celebration of painter Bernice Bing at the Asian Art Museum.

Participants must reserve tickets at:  www.sffreemuseumweekend.com

For more information: Read the full 11/07/22 SF Chronicle article.