Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum
The Legion of Honor is a unique art museum located in San Francisco California. It was the gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, wife of the thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder Adolph B. Spreckels. The building is an imitation of the Palais de la Legion d'Honneur, known as the Hotel de Salm in Paris by George Applegarth and H.Guillaume completed in 1924. The Legion of Honor occupies a site in Lincoln Park with views of the Golden Gate Bridge. While visiting, guests in a San Francisco car rental can explore the collection of more than 6000 years of ancient and European art, as well as the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. The Legion of Honor is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9:30 AM to 5:15 PM. Admission for adults is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $6 for youth and free for children 12 and under.
Visit the Cafe and Museum Store!
After viewing the exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, guests in a San Francisco car rental can grab a snack or sit down for a meal at the Museum Cafe which offers numerous dining options created by McCall Associates. First thing in the morning, the cafe offers espresso and delicious warm pastries. In the afternoon, visitors in a San Francisco car rental can enjoy soup, salad, sandwiches or hot entrees! The cafe is open Tuesday to Sunday from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. The Legion of Honor Museum Store is open 9:30 AM to 5:15 PM and provides guests in a San Francisco car rental with art history books, elegant home decor, and classic jewelry as well as fine art gifts. The store also features lines of products that are influenced by Paris and influenced by French taste. The Legion of Honor has exhibition stores as well, which offers guests in a San Francisco car rental with items in conjunction with the special exhibitions.
Exhibitions Visitors in a San Francisco car rental Can Explore
Exhibitions at the Legion of Honor include Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, Favorite Things: An Exhibition of Artist Books in Memory of David Logan, The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy, Pissarro's People and the Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde. The Dutch and Flemish Masterworks Collection feature portraits, landscapes and scenes of everyday life. This collection of 17th-Century Dutch Old Masters belongs to Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. The Exhibition of Artist Books in Memory of David Logan features the collection of more than 300 modern artist books, and a gallery was named after David Logan at the Legion of Honor. The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy consists of 39 sculptures from the tomb of John the Fearless, the second duke of Burgundy. Pissarro's People offer guests in a San Francisco car rental with the paintings, drawings, and prints of Camille Pissarro and highlights portraits of the artist's friends and family. The Cult of Beauty: The Victorian Avant-Garde is the first major exhibit that explores the creativity of the British Aesthetic Movement with progressive artists and poets, and work from numerous painters and architects.
Collections at the Legion of Honor
The Legion of Honor, which originated at the French pavilion in San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition, offers over 124,000 works of art. The Legion of Honor is recognized for its European decorative arts, sculpture and painting as well as its Ancient Art from the Mediterranean and the Near East. The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts is responsible for the Museum's collection of works of art on paper, including prints, drawings, and artist books. The Ancient Art collection features a number of rare works and special exhibitions of ancient art including Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs and Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine. Other fascinating collections featured at the Legion of Honor that guests in a San Francisco car rental can explore include American Painting, American Decorative Art, Art of the Americas, Oceanic Art, Textile Arts, and Photography.
For more information about the Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, travelers in a San Francisco car rental should visit http://legionofhonour.famsf.org or call (415) 750-3600.
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