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| | | | Art / Music / Other Museums: FREE Opera House Tour | | | | | |
Every Monday, except holidays, a trained volunteer leads groups through the War Memorial Opera House describing its architecture, construction, new improvements, colorful history and performance highlights. Your tour will walk you through the boxes and auditorium, behind the footlights to backstage areas, into the wig and make up department and other areas as available. These tours are only held during the opera seasons which normally is between September and May/June. HOURS: 10am, 11a, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm. LOCATION: 201 Van Ness avenue at Hayes. TO GET THERE: From downtown, take MUNI subway S line/Castro and get off at Van Ness Outbound station. Use Trip Planner to find the best route for you. DEPARTURE POINT: All tours leave from the Grove Street entrance of Davies Symphony Hall. Group tour reservations should be made two weeks in advance. For further information, contact Performing Arts Center Tours at (415) 552-8338. NOTE: City Hall also offers FREE tours (Mondays to Fridays. At 10am, 12pm and 2pm) and it is located nearby. Phone: (510) 524-5220Website: http://sfwmpac.org/topnav/general_info.html Other Contact: education@sfopera.com
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| | | | Art / Music / Other Museums: Asian Art Museum | | | | | |
Here's a fun, educational thing to do while in SF. The Asian Art Museum has over 15,000 objects, covering 6,000 years of Asian history. These artifacts -art, statues of deities, etc-cover the entire gamut of Asian history. There's too much to mention here, so I'll post their web page. All of it is just fascinating. I was attracted to the museum because of an exhibit of recently uncovered Thai artifacts, and discovered many more amazing things. I learned so much about Asian art and history. There's nothing like seeing something that was made by a person who lived 1,000 years ago. What was this person thinking about when he or she made this piece? What was he or she like? It's like getting to know a bit about that person. The museum is a celebration of San Francisco's Asian heritage. Find it at 200 Larkin Street, at the Civic Center. Leave a Comment Phone: 415-581-3500Website: www.asianart.org
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| | | | Art / Music / Other Museums: Musee Mecanique | | | | | |
Right now (summer 2003), the Musee Mecanique is located in Fisherman's Wharf, on Pier 45, which is generally quite busy. Normally, however, it's located out at Ocean Beach's Cliff House, which is undergoing a renovation, and most visitors don't make it out there. The museum houses an extraordinary collection of toys and machines, many of them reminiscent of the Zoltar machine that made such an impression on Tom Hanks's character in Big . There are gypsy fortune tellers, machines that reveal what happens at a French, or an English execution, viewers in which you can watch various mildly risque movies from the early 20th century, and other attractions like Laughing Sal, a life-size doll with an eerie laugh that often scares young children. The museum is a lot of fun: the machines might be quaint, but they are often very amusing, and definitely bring out the inner kid. It's free, in one sense, but you need quarters, or occasionally dimes, to operate all of the machines: it's that rare museum that costs as much as you want it to! Leave a Comment Website: http://mistersf.com/high/index.html?highmecanique15.htm Other Contact: Pier 45, Fisherman's Wharf
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