Formerly known as the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, and built in commemoration of Californians who gave their lives in WWI, the French neoclassical Beaux-arts building overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge houses a collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art.
Collections include Rodin's Thinker, housed below the museum's distinctive pyramid skylight and surrounded by six additional galleries.
The collection also focuses on European decorative arts and paintings, Ancient art, and a large collection of prints and drawings.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
Exhibitions & Dates
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?
May 1 2021 - Nov 7 2021
A purposeful examination of the techniques of archiving and remembering
Iliazd: Publishing as an Art Form
Jun 12 2021 - Oct 10 2021
Artist’s books of this Russian Modernist
Color into Line: Pastels from the Renaissance to the Present
Oct 9 2021 - Feb 13 2022
Masterpiece pastels spanning from the Renaissance to most recent artistic experimentations
Michelle Erickson: Wild Porcelain
Oct 30 2021 - Nov 20 2022
Three cases of porcelain make political statements
Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy
Apr 16 2022 - Sep 5 2022
80+ works highlight China's first couturier's most important collections