M. H. de Young Memorial Museum facts for kids
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| Established | March 24, 1895 |
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| Location | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, USA |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 2,043,854 (2010)
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| Public transit access | 44 O'Shaughnessy, San Francisco Municipal Railway |
The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum is an art museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is often called just the de Young Museum. It is named for early San Francisco newspaper publisher M. H. de Young. The museum opened in 1895. It was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A new museum building opened in 2005.
Images for kids
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"Cover Pot" for the Teotihuacan show, 2017-18. Avian effigy, 250 - 350 AD
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De Young Museum prior to 2005 reconstruction
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Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church (1866)
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Museum, with Hamon Tower on the right
See also
In Spanish: De Young Museum para niños
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