San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  (Downtown)

Regarding Art SF’s SFMOMA tour is approximately three hours and includes museum admission for 4 people.

No wonder the reopening of the greatly expanded  SFMOMA was the premiere event of the 2016 art season!

• A new 10-story addition designed by Norwegian architects Snohetta, combined with elements of the older SFMOMA now comprise the largest museum in America devoted to modern and contemporary art.
• The Doris and Don Fisher Collection of 1,100 world class works of modern and contemporary  art.
• The already distinguished and continually growing SFMOMA collection of national and international masters of fine art, architecture, photography and media arts.
• Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Philip Guston, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden and Chuck Close, Picasso, Matisse, Steiglitz, Weston. The deepest collection anywhere of Gerhard Richter paintings. And so many more artists on view.
• Seven viewing floors, with permanent and changing specialized exhibitions.

Exciting but also perhaps daunting.  Let Regarding Art SF guide you – to your favorites, through the museum as a whole or, if you’re wondering what modern art is all about, let me introduce you to some ways of viewing it that will bring it more alive and accessible to you.  We’ll spend two hours together taking in the grand SFMOMA building and collections in the ways that are stimulating  and memorable to you.

Add-on options:
1. Walking Tour of Downtown Galleries near SFMOMA

Rates starting at $450 for entry fees and tour for 4 people.  $75 additional per person up to 8 people.*

• Additional Special Exhibition fee at SFMOMA rate if required.

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de Young Museum (Golden Gate Park)

Regarding Art SF’s basic de Young tour is a two hour overview of its diverse and superb collections and includes museum admission.

Your actual trip to the de Young  Museum is a virtual trip around the world.  From the dramatic copper-clad Swiss-designed building, to the Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy’s entrance sculpture, we go in to find extraordinary worlds.  We view the de Young’s renowned holdings of American art and crafts of all periods, and the art of Oceania – including the fascinating Jolika Collection of New Guinea art.  Then it is on to stirring tribal pieces from Africa and the clay, feather and beaded artifacts from South America.  We view finely crafted costumes, jewelry and textiles from a wide variety of Eastern and Western traditions. All this with periodic views of the grand trees and ferns of Golden Gate Park through enormous glass walls.  The most visited museum on the West Coast, the de Young is a rich feast for the eyes and imagination.

Add-on option:

1. 1. An historic promenade through nearby Golden Gate Park attractions including the Japanese Tea Garden, Bandshell Music Concourse, Strybing Arboretum, Conservatory of Flowers, Stow Lake

Rates starting at $375 for Admission and Tour for 4 People, $50 additional per person up to 8 people.*

Additional Promenade Option: $160 for up to 8 People. 

* Additional Special Exhibition Fee per person at Museum rate when required.

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Palace of the Legion of Honor (Lincoln Park)

Regarding Art SF’s basic Legion of Honor tour is a two hour overview of its collection and includes museum admission.

San Francisco’s most beautiful public museum, The Palace of the Legion of Honor displays a collection of 4,000 years of ancient and European art, artifacts and porcelain in an exquisite Beaux-Arts building in an unforgettable setting overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.  Particularly noteworthy and visited works at the Legion of Honor include an early casting of Rodin’s monumental The Thinker as well as numerous other important Rodin works from the collection of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels,  Rubens’  The Tribute Money, El Greco’s John the Baptist, the Bowles Porcelain Gallery, the perfectly restored Salon Dore, and the marvelous collection of Dutch paintings.

Rates starting at $375* includes tour and admission fee for up 4 people.  $75 additional per person up to 8 people.

*Additional Special Exhibition Fee per person at Museum rate if required.

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The Asian Art Museum (Civic Center)

Regarding Art SF will arrange for you to take a private tour of the Asian Art Museum with a local Asian Art expert and scholar.  The Asian Art Museum Tour is approximately  two hours and includes museum admission.

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection, some as much as 6,000 years old. Its masterpieces include: Simhavaktra Dakini, Seated Buddha (dated 338), Shiva and Parvati, Rhinoceros Vessel, Korean Art and the recent George Gund III bequest of ink paintings created mostly during Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868).

Add-on option:

Walking tour of the Beaux-Arts Civic Center of San Francisco where its City Hall, Library (with Pioneer Statue), Opera House, and Symphony Hall are located. (Volunteer and Docent tours of these facilities are available by arrangement on certain days of the week).

Rates starting at $350.