The de Young Musuem (L) and the Legion of Honor Museum will offer free Saturday admission to San Francisco residents starting April 6, 2019.
We’re pretty lucky to have not just one great museum in our neighborhood, but two. And starting on April 6, any San Francisco resident can enjoy free admission on Saturday’s to either the de Young Museum or the Legion of Honor Museum’s permanent and special exhibitions.
To gain entry, San Francisco residents just need to show a valid photo ID or a postmarked envelope bearing their home address.
In addition to free admission, on Saturdays the de Young will continue to feature engaging art experiences for the entire family, with family art making, gallery guides, and enhanced gallery tours with discussion groups and sketching in the permanent collection galleries.
The ever-popular organ concerts on the Skinner organ will continue to take place at the Legion of Honor. All programming at both museums is free with museum admission.
The museums will also continue their Free Tuesdays initiative, which gives free general admission to all visitors the first Tuesday of every month. Plus youth ages 17 and under are always free.
Upcoming at the de Young is an exhibition called Monet: The Late Years, featuring 50 paintings by Claude Monet dating mainly from 1913 to 1926, the final phase of his long career, including 20 works on loan from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. The exhibition runs from February 27 through May 27, 2019. In July, the museum will open their Ed Hardy and the Tattoo Renaissance exhibit, the first museum retrospective of the renowned tattoo artist and surveys Hardy’s life in art that has as its inspiration both traditional American tattooing of the first half of the twentieth century and Japan’s ukiyo-e era culture.
Starting April 6, the Legion of Honor will open their Early Rubens exhibit, focusing on what is arguably the artist’s most innovative period of production, from 1608 until about 1620.
So the next time you’re feeling bored on a Saturday, there’s no excuse to not find beauty right in our own neighborhood! This is a great chance to explore each museum’s permanent collections as well.
Sarah B.
This is amazing! Thanks for blogging about this & getting the word out! Being a SF resident has its benefits. 🙂
It appears to only apply to *general* and not special admissions which are still full-price. You can reserve online: https://deyoung.famsf.org/free-reduced-admission