Marin County Civic Center

…New York City and the Marin County government centre near San Francisco. The Guggenheim Museum was commissioned as early as 1943 to house a permanent collection of abstract art. Construction began in 1956, and the museum opened in 1959 after Wright’s death. The Guggenheim, which has no separate floor levels…

…of the city is the Marin County Civic Center (an arched structure spanning four hills, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) and China Camp State Park, named for a late 19th-century shrimp-fishing village there. Muir Woods National Monument is southwest of the city, in Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Pop. (2000)…