M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
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Name (Latin)
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
Other forms of name
De Young Memorial Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. M.H. De Young Memorial Museum
De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
De Young Museum
de Young Museum (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Coordinates
-122.468676 -122.468676 37.771469 37.771469 (gooearth )
Type of corporate body
Museums
Biographical or Historical Data
Formerly: Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum (San Francisco, Calif.)
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Garver, T.H. New photography, San Francisco and the Bay Area, c1974:t.p. (The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum)
- Phone call to De Young Librarian, July 1994(Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum fd. Mar. 23, 1895; renamed M.H. De Young Memorial Museum in 1921)
- Museum, park, city home, 1999:p. 7 (De Young Museum) leaf in pocket (M.H. de Young Memorial Museum)
- Bowles, H. Balenciaga and Spain, 2011, ©2001:CIP galley (de Young Museum)
- OCALC
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Wikipedia description:
The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. Located in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor. In 2024, the two combined museums were ranked 15th in the Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S. The museum received 999,645 visitors in 2023, ranking 21st in the List of most-visited museums in the United States, and was 70th in the List of most-visited art museums in the world.
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