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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is home to a renowned collection of contemporary and modern art, completely focused on 20th-century art and artists. The museum’s permanent collection has more than 33,000 sculptures, paintings, photographs, design, architecture and media arts. The museum’s exhibit space covers 170,000 square feet, making it one of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the world.
The Museum started its life in 1935 with a modest 36 artworks donated by Albert M. Bender. Some of the museum’s biggest treasures are works by Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock and Ansel Adams, among others. The museum organizes about twenty exhibitions and three hundred educational programs every year.
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