Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

institute, San Francisco, California, United States

Also known as: FAMSF

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History

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), institute in San Francisco, California, comprising two separate museums, the de Young and the Legion of Honor. Together the museums contain the city’s largest art collection. The de Young, located in Golden Gate Park and founded in 1895, is the older of the two museums. Its highly regarded collection of American paintings features more than 1,000 works dating from colonial to contemporary times. Disrepair and earthquake damage forced...