San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco · United States · Founded 1935
The West Coast's leading modern and contemporary art museum, with one of the world's great photography collections and a landmark Snøhetta-expanded building.
About San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Founded in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast dedicated to modern art. Its 2016 expansion — designed by Snøhetta — nearly tripled its size to 170,000 square feet of gallery space, making it one of the largest modern art museums in the United States.
The collection spans painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. SFMOMA's photography holdings are particularly renowned, anchored by the Pritzker Center for Photography — the largest space dedicated to photography in any art museum in the world.
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