Target’s “Free Museum Weekend” in SF | July 16-18

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Target’s “Arts & Wonder” is a a huge free museum event over three days — July 16-18 — at 7 top destinations in SF including the de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Contemporary Jewish Museum, the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.

The museums take turns welcoming all ages with free general admission, free hands-on art making activities for kids and special family-friendly free performance

DATE AND TIME:

• Friday, July 16, 2010 ­ de Young Museum free from 5 PM to 8:45 PM
• Saturday, July 17, 2010 ­ Asian Art Museum free from 10 AM to 5 PM
• Sunday, July 18, 2010 ­ SFMOMA, Contemporary Jewish Museum, MoAD, Zeum and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival free from 11 AM to 4 PM

Below, is a sample of the many activities families and individuals can enjoy at participating venues in San Francisco with dates and times indicated for each:

Friday, July 16, 2010; 5 to 8:45 PM
de Young Museum [Full Event Details]

• Turn the Target mascot Bullseye into a work of Andy Warhol-inspired Pup-Art
• Get a lift as you watch a ballet performance celebrating the Impressionist
  painter Degas

Saturday, July 17, 2010; 10 AM to 5 PM
Asian Art Museum [Full Event Details]

• Journey from India to Japan as you stroll through the galleries
• Take a storytelling tour and learn about gods, goddesses, emperors,
  philosophers and more

Sunday, July 18, 2010; 11 AM to 4 PM
Five locations downtown San Francisco:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

• Go BIG — see for yourself how larger-than-life artworks transform the ordinary into the EXTRAordinary
• Create your own enormous art — make an everyday object into something 10 times its size

Contemporary Jewish Museum

• Celebrate the everyday in the whimsical exhibition Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
• Marvel at the magic of ordinary objects by crafting fabric buttons, decorating bags and watching Sweet Can Productions make brooms dance and more

Museum of the African Diaspora

• Tour the exhibition African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals
• Try your hand at Haitian tooled metal sculpture

Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum

• Sculpt and film your own clay animation
• Ride the historic Zeum Carousel

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival

Come in costume and get ready to join the conga line as we celebrate the international spirit of carnaval with non-stop performances in Yerba Buena
Gardens from 12-3 PM by Fogo Na Roupa, Sambadá, Loco Bloco, Bahia Bahia, Chelle! and Friends, Pi Clowns, and more.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.