Summary of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
You can’t miss the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Swiss architect Mario Botta’s distinctive redbrick building has a black-and-white turret on top, an extension of its fifth floor. Inside the turret is a glorious light-flooded place where a walkway connects the staircase to galleries. Don’t miss walking over it, though it’s not for anyone timid about heights. You can look straight down to the black marble striped first floor. SFMOMA’s fifth floor is devoted to the newest artworks in the permanent collection. So expect contemporary, sometimes startling, work, such as Kiki Smith’s “Lilith,” a figure of a woman crouching on the wall, or Olafur Eliasson’s “Multiple Grotto, “filling the gallery like an enormous stainless steel flower. Special exhibits, often the main attraction, and video or other media presentations are on the fourth floor. Photography is on the third and the permanent painting and sculpture collection and design exhibits on the second floor. The first floor attracts many visitors who don’t bother to visit the galleries. You can get a panini and espresso in Caffe Museo or shop for great contemporary design in the museum shop. And you don’t need an entrance ticket to do so.
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