San Francisco's public art museum occupies two very different buildings in two of the city's parks. The de Young in Golden Gate Park sits behind a perforated copper skin designed by Herzog & de Meuron and opened in 2005. Its galleries hold American painting and decorative arts, art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and textiles and costume, and its twisting tower looks out over the park.
The Legion of Honor stands on a headland in Lincoln Park above the Golden Gate. Built in 1924 as a memorial to Californians killed in the First World War, it is modelled on the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur in Paris. A cast of Rodin's The Thinker sits in its colonnaded courtyard, and inside are European paintings and sculpture, ancient art, and the Achenbach Foundation's large holdings of prints and drawings.
The two museums merged in 1972 and together draw more than a million and a half visitors a year. Each makes a substantial visit on its own.
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