Luxury South of Market Hotels San Francisco

South of Market San Francisco Museums.

The south of Market district in San Francisco has become the heart of the city’s cultural scene with a number of interesting and unique museums. Museums in the South of Market district focus on modern art, cartoons, Jewish culture and high tech interactive art, among many other interests.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The grande dame of the San Francisco museum scene has a new rooftop garden, which features works by noted sculpture artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder and Henry Moore. Special exhibits might focus on such modern masters as Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams, www.sfmoma.org. [Top]

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

This South of Market performing arts museum complex sits atop Moscone Center and offers cutting-edge theater, modern dance, music, visual arts, film and high-tech galleries befitting high-tech San Francisco, www.ybca.org.

Contemporary Jewish Museum.

The newest museum in the south of Market district was designed by powerhouse architect Daniel Lebeskind, and offers a wide variety of film, lectures, performing arts, drop-in art classes and exhibits such as the recent “Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater,” www.thecjm.org. [Top]

Cartoon Art Museum.

Try your hand at being a comic artist at one of the classes offered at this south of San Francisco market museum or view exhibits on everything from Japanese comics to graphic novels such as The Watchmen, www.cartoonart.org.

Zeum.

This South of Market San Francisco family museum caters to the interactive media crowd with a live action video game, exhibits and workshops where teens (and adults) can create everything from music videos to soundtracks to movies, www.zeum.org. [Top]