Museum of the City of San Francisco

Last updated

The Museum of the City of San Francisco is a nonprofit museum containing a collection of historic artifacts related to San Francisco. [1] It was founded by Gladys Hansen, who was the city archivist of San Francisco. The executive director is Richard Hansen, Gladys's son. [2]

Contents

History

The Museum of the City of San Francisco was founded in 1991 by Gladys Hansen, who had recently retired as the city archivist of San Francisco. It was recognized as the official historical museum of San Francisco by the Board of Supervisors in 1995. [3] The museum had a small exhibit space at The Cannery (a former Del Monte fruit-canning plant that is now a shopping center) until 2000, when it lost its lease. [4] It then had temporary exhibits at Pier 45 (near Fisherman's Wharf) and at San Francisco City Hall. [5]

In February 2002, the Museum of the City of San Francisco merged with the San Francisco Historical Society to create the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. [6] San Francisco municipal government recognized the newly merged organization as the official historical museum of San Francisco, since it was the successor to the Museum of the City of San Francisco. [3] One of the purposes of the merger of the two organizations was to put together a single proposal to renovate and operate the Old San Francisco Mint as a history museum, [5] [7] which ultimately did not succeed. [8] [9]

Notwithstanding the merger, the Museum of the City of San Francisco's website, operated directly by Gladys Hansen, remained independent and in 2003 renamed itself the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. [10] Hansen's personal research collection of artifacts from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake also remained in her possession. [11] In 2013, it started partnering with the Bethlehem Shipyard Museum on exhibits, [12] and it displayed some of its artifacts in the San Francisco History Museum, near Union Square. [13]

In 2019, the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco dropped "Virtual" from its name and reverted to its original name, [14] after the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society dropped "Museum" from its name and reverted to its original name. [15]

Related Research Articles

San Francisco Consolidated city and county in California, United States

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial and cultural center in the northern region of the U.S. state of California. The city proper is the 17th most populous in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles, at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 331 U.S. cities proper with more than 100,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income and fifth by aggregate income as of 2019. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, The City, and Frisco.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California, United States

Monterey Bay Aquarium is a nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California. Known for its regional focus on the marine habitats of Monterey Bay, it was the first to exhibit a living kelp forest when it opened in October 1984. Its biologists have pioneered the animal husbandry of jellyfish and it was the first to successfully care for and display a great white shark. The organization's research and conservation efforts also focus on sea otters, various birds, and tunas. Seafood Watch, a sustainable seafood advisory list published by the aquarium beginning in 1999, has influenced the discussion surrounding sustainable seafood.

South of Market, San Francisco Neighborhood in San Francisco, California, US

South of Market (SoMa) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, situated just south of Market Street. It contains several sub-neighborhoods including South Beach, Yerba Buena, and Rincon Hill.

Millbrae station Rapid transit and railway station in San Francisco Bay Area

Millbrae station is an intermodal transit station serving Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and Caltrain, located in Millbrae, California. The station is the terminal station for BART on the San Francisco Peninsula, served by two lines: The Richmond–Millbrae+SFO line before 9 pm and the Antioch–SFO+Millbrae line evenings. It is served by all Caltrain service. The station is also served by SamTrans bus service, Commute.org and Caltrain shuttle buses, and other shuttles.

Randall Museum

The Randall Museum is a museum in central San Francisco, California, owned and operated by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department with the support of the Randall Friends. The museum focuses on science, nature and the arts. On exhibit are live native and domestic animals and interactive displays about nature. Other facilities include a theater, a wood shop, and art and ceramics studios.

George Eastman Museum Museum in Rochester, New York

The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.

Oregon Historical Society Museum History museum in Portland, Oregon

The Oregon Historical Society Museum is a history museum housed at the Oregon Historical Society in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The museum was created in 1898 and receives about 44,000 visitors annually.

The San Francisco Historical Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and presentation of the history of San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. It is a membership-based organization that holds monthly speaking programs, conducts walking tours of San Francisco and publishes original research. It owns the Barbary Coast Trail walking tour and publishes the biannual journal Argonaut. As of 2021, it has just under 2,000 members.

Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun

Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun have been held at museums in several countries, notably the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Japan, and France etc.

California Historical Society

The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California. It was founded in 1871, by a group of prominent Californian intellectuals at Santa Clara University. It was officially designated as the Californian state historical society in 1979. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, though it hosts exhibits and collections across California.

GLBT Historical Society American non-profit LGBT historical society

The GLBT Historical Society maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to the history of LGBT people in the United States, with a focus on the LGBT communities of San Francisco and Northern California.

Witte Museum

The Witte Museum was established in 1926 and is located in Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas. It is dedicated to telling the stories of Texas, from prehistory to the present. The permanent collection features historic artifacts and photographs, Texas art, textiles, dinosaur bones, cave drawings, and Texas wildlife dioramas, in addition to nationally acclaimed traveling exhibits. Artwork in the collection includes sculpture by San Antonio-born Bonnie MacLeary.

1906 San Francisco earthquake Major earthquake that struck San Francisco and the coast of Northern California

At 5:12 a.m. PST on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). High-intensity shaking was felt from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devastating fires soon broke out in San Francisco and lasted for several days. More than 3,000 people died, and over 80 percent of the city was destroyed. The events are remembered as one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the United States. The death toll remains the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history and high on the lists of American disasters.

San Francisco City Guides (SFCG) is a non-profit organization that offers over 90 different walking tours of San Francisco presented by trained, volunteer guides. San Francisco City Guides was founded in 1978 as a program of the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Tours are offered daily, regardless of weather. Reservations are accepted for groups of eight or more, as well as for special date or time requests.

Grace Nicholson American art collector and dealer

Grace Nicholson was an American art collector and art dealer, specializing in Native American and Chinese handicrafts. The space she originally designed for her shop is now home to the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California.

Clayton Sumner "C. S." Price was an American expressionist painter from Oregon.

Gladys Cox Hansen was an American librarian, archivist and author. She was an expert on the history of San Francisco and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Old San Francisco Mint Building

The Old San Francisco Mint is a building that served as the location of the San Francisco branch of the United States Mint from 1874 until 1937. The building is one of the few that survived the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and resulting fire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and as a California Historical Landmark in 1974.

References

  1. ↑ "The Museum of the City of San Francisco" . Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  2. ↑ "About the Museum". The Museum of the City of San Francisco. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Resolution recognizing and supporting the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society as the official historical museum of the City and County of San Francisco (Resolution Number 145-02)" (PDF). San Francisco Board of Supervisors. January 29, 2002. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
  4. ↑ Rubenstein, Steve (February 17, 2000). "S.F. Museum Packs It Up At Cannery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
  5. 1 2 Epstein, Edward (June 2, 2003). "Dreaming of a city museum: An exhibit of S.F. history may find a home in the Old Mint". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Minutes of the November 14, 2002 Meeting". San Francisco Museum and Historical Society Advisory Committee. November 14, 2002. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2014.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ Martinfield, Seán (November 21, 2007). "The Old Mint – Breathing New Life Into "The Granite Lady"". San Francisco Sentinel. Retrieved February 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Nolte, Carl (March 21, 2015). "End of the line for S.F. group trying to restore the Old Mint". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  9. ↑ Johnson, Lizzie (1 April 2016). "California Historical Society to take on fixing up the Old Mint". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "About the Museum". Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. Archived from the original on August 23, 2003.
  11. ↑ "Minutes of the January 29, 2003 Meeting". San Francisco Museum and Historical Society Advisory Committee. January 29, 2003. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2014.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  12. ↑ Museum of the City of San Francisco; Bethlehem Shipyard Museum (August 2013). "Slivers of San Francisco History" (PDF). Retrieved March 14, 2021.
  13. ↑ Bragman, Bob (March 13, 2013). "A Rich Addition to Union Square – The San Francisco History Museum". SF Gate. Retrieved March 14, 2021. "The 1906 Earthquake collection of Gladys and Richard Hansen" referenced in the article is from the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
  14. ↑ Compare the logo on the home page of the Museum of the City of San Francisco on December 2, 2019 to December 27, 2019, via the Internet Archive
  15. ↑ Compare the logo on the home page of the San Francisco Historical Society on January 22, 2019 to March 16, 2019, via the Internet Archive
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.