M. H. de Young Memorial Museum

A perforated copper skin, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and slowly weathering toward green, wraps the de Young's building in Golden Gate Park. A twisting tower rises from one corner, and its top-floor observation level looks out over the park and the city. The building opened in 2005, replacing an earlier structure damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

The museum is part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, alongside the Legion of Honor. Its galleries focus on American art from the colonial period to the present, with paintings such as Grant Wood's Dinner for Threshers, as well as art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas. It also holds a major collection of textiles and costume, and its grounds include a sculpture garden.

The museum traces its origins to the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. It takes its name from newspaper publisher M. H. de Young, who championed its founding. It faces the California Academy of Sciences across the park's Music Concourse.