San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. San Bruno Mountain Summit stands 371 m to the south-southwest, 7.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Museum of the African Diaspora, a museum 0.1 miles away.
The story
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 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) 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. In 2024, SFMOMA was ranked 14th in The Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S. 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.
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Dates from 1935.
Wikidata Q913672, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Local Color: 0.1 mi
- Deep Gradient / Suspect Terrain: 0.1 mi
- Let’s Build From Here: 0.1 mi
- George Moscone: 0.1 mi
- Volute: 0.1 mi
- East Garden: 0.1 mi
- Sister City Gardens: 0.1 mi
- Learning Garden: 0.2 mi
- 123 Mission Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Oasis at 50 Jones: 0.7 mi
- Annie St Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Yerba Buena Gardens: 0.1 mi
- Rooftop Park: 0.3 mi
- Ecker Square: 0.3 mi
- PG&E Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Ohlone Indian Memorial: 0.2 mi
- California Bell: 0.2 mi
- Admission Day Monument: 0.2 mi
- Original 1848 shoreline: 0.4 mi
- Salesforce Park Cable Car: 0.4 mi
- Cable Car Turntable (Powell & Market): 0.4 mi
- Dragon Gate: 0.4 mi
- California and Powell streets: 0.6 mi
- Transamerica Pyramid: 0.7 mi
- Rincon Hill: 0.5 mi
- Nob Hill: 0.9 mi
- Russian Hill: 1.1 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 1.2 mi
- Lafayette Heights: 1.5 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 1.7 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 3.3 mi
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 4.7 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 5.6 mi
- East Bay campsite #3: 5.6 mi
- Crab Cove Marine Reserve: 6.8 mi
- Fort Funston: 7.2 mi
- Old Hilary's Botanical Preserve: 7.3 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 7.4 mi
- Tern Nesting: 8.2 mi
- Crane Cove Beach: 1.7 mi
- East Beach: 3.1 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 4.5 mi
- Sand Springs Beach: 5.0 mi
- Radio Beach: 5.1 mi
- Huntington Falls: 4.2 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 4.4 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 4.6 mi
- Kent Falls: 11.9 mi
- Dawn Falls: 13.7 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.0 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.0 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.1 mi
- Old Spring: 8.5 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 13.5 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 5.2 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 9.1 mi
- Vent 5: 13.4 mi
- Aramai Point: 13.5 mi
- Chab: 15.3 mi
- Lynn: 9.2 mi
- Winehaven: 11.5 mi
- Russell City: 17.2 mi
- Stokes Landing: 19.2 mi
- Eckley: 21.4 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 2.6 mi
- Quarters A: 2.6 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 7.3 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 7.9 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 14.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SSW 196° | 371 m | 7.1 mi |
| Richardson East | NW 310° | 338.6 m | 7.0 mi |
| Peak 1041 | NW 306° | 317.297 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mount Davidson | SW 221° | 283 m | 4.4 mi |
| Slacker Hill | NW 305° | 282 m | 5.9 mi |
| Hawk Hill | WNW 299° | 281 m | 6.1 mi |
| Mount Sutro | WSW 238° | 278 m | 3.6 mi |
| Noe Peak | SW 227° | 274 m | 3.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:56 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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