M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum is an art museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is often called just the de Young Museum. It is named for early San Francisco newspaper publisher M. H. de Young. The museum opened in 1895. It was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A new museum building opened in 2005.
| M. H. de Young Memorial Museum | |
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| Established | March 24, 1895 |
| Location | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, USA |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitor figures | 2,043,854 (2010)[1]
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| Director | John E. Buchanan, Jr. |
| Public transit access | 44 O'Shaughnessy, San Francisco Municipal Railway |
| Website | http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/ |
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum Media
Queen Elizabeth II speaking at the de Young Museum in 1983
"Cover Pot" for the Teotihuacan show, 2017–18. Avian effigy, 250 - 350 AD
Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church (1866)
De Young Museum prior to 2005 reconstruction
Museum, with Hamon Tower on the right
References
- ↑ "Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2010" (PDF). London: The Art Newspaper. April 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
Other websites
- Official website Archived 2010-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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