San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
SoMa · San Francisco, California
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the largest modern art museum in the United States, following a major 2016 expansion that nearly tripled its exhibition space to 170,000 square feet. The permanent collection spans more than 35,000 works, with particular strengths in photography — one of the finest museum photography collections in the world — Abstract Expressionism, Bay Area Figuration, and contemporary work across all media. The Snøhetta-designed expansion introduced a dramatic nine-story atrium flooded with natural light, housing Olafur Eliasson's immersive waterfall installation. A visit to SFMOMA is essential for understanding the full arc of twentieth and twenty-first century art.
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