Enjoy a free day at the museum with Wells Fargo Free Second Sundays. The Oakland Museum of California provides unique collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and deeper understanding of and interest in California’s environment, history, art and people. (more…)

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. But we are more than just an art museum—we are your ticket to Asia. Here, travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries. Target First Free Sundays”—free admission to all on the first Sunday of every month and the family programs offered on that day—is made possible by Target.

The Legion of Honor displays a collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art in an exquisite Beaux-Arts building in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. The museum is located in Lincoln Park near 34th Avenue and Clement Street.

Founded in 1895 in Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum s a landmark art museum to showcase the museum’s priceless collections of American art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, and art of the native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific. In 2005, the de Young Museum re-opened in a state-of-the-art new facility that integrates art, architecture and the natural landscape in one multi-faceted destination that will inspire audiences from around the world and was designed by the renowned Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron and Fong & Chan Architects in San Francisco.

In the striking Mario Botta-designed building, SFMOMA houses the West Coast’s most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century art including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.

The stellar collection tells the story of modern and contemporary art through master works by Ansel Adams, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Richard Diebenkorn, Eva Hesse, Frida Kahlo, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Sherrie Levine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Diego Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, Clyfford Still, and Edward Weston, among many others. (more…)

The Cartoon Art Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of cartoon art in all its forms. This unique institution houses approximately 6,000 original pieces in its permanent collection; a complete volume research/library facility is located on the museum’s premises. In addition to seven major exhibitions a year, the museum has a classroom for cartoon art and a bookstore. (more…)

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is the Bay Area’s premier venue for adventurous art. A multidisciplinary art Center, it features exhibitions, performance, film/video and community engagement programs.

Housed within the walls of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of hundreds of science, art, and human perception exhibits. Free admission on first Wednesday of each month; however, due to capacity limits, groups of 10 or more are required to make reservations or will not be admitted. (more…)

The first Thursday of every month is free admission to the Pez Museum in Burlingame, where you can find over 500 pez dispensers from the past 80 years. The small shop front leads into an overwhelming grotto of Pez merchandise… Pez watches, money boxes, dispensers, T-shirts, cards and Frisbees are all for sale, but the jewel of this museum is the display room with the entire history of pez. The original Pez product, a tin of mints, was produced by the Austrian company in 1927. The first small, rectangular dispensers are uninspiring, and look a bit like lighters. The first character heads were introduced in 1952 — they include Mickey, Casper and Popeye. The rarest Pez in this collection, worth about $5,000 is a Mr Potato Head character, which was taken off the market in 1973 because the small pieces were a choking hazard. The museum also includes World’s Largest Pez Dispenser and in 2004, the museum was expanded to include the Classic Toy Museum which features exhibits of the other great toys from our childhood.

The San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design is a lovely little space tucked neatly to the side of Union Square on Stockton Street with exhibitions designed to showcase the art of craft and design, and their importance in everyday life. (more…)

From 11am to 5pm, enjoy free admission to the UC Berkeley Art Museum galleries, public programs. Aftrwards you can attend a free 5:30p Pacific Film Archive screening, the first Thursday of the month. (more…)

Come to the California Genealogical Society Library for a free Genealogy for Beginners Class every first Saturday of every month at 11:00 a.m. Trace and compile your family history at Northern California’s premier genealogy society library. Volunteer members are available to help you use our extensive library and online databases. Bring information about an ancestor’s family and we will help you find them in the 1920 or 1930 census. (more…)