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Free Entry at SFMOMA, MoAD, Other Yerba Buena Museums This Thursday

Over a dozen Yerba Buena-adjacent arts and cultural institutions have joined forces for the second time this year to offer free admission and special programming as part of Culture for Community, an event timed to the neighborhood’s regular third Thursday programming.

The collaboration opens doors at SFMOMA, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the California Historical Society, the Contemporary Jewish Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with most institutions hosting events and tours tied to the theme of intergenerational storytelling.

Highlights include new etchings by Gay Outlaw at Crown Point Press, YBCA’s technology-centric group show The Body Electric, 11am and 1pm screenings of Nicole Miller’s To The Stars at SFMOMA, and Annabeth Rosen’s magnificent survey of ceramic work at the CJM.

Skip out of work early, take a long lunch break, do what you have to do to soak up as much art and culture as you can this Thursday. Here’s the list of major institutions and their (often extended) hours:

American Bookbinders Museum: Free 10am–8pm California Historical Society: Free 11am–5pm with a talk at 6:30pm Children’s Creativity Museum: Free 10am–7pm Contemporary Jewish Museum: Open 11am–9pm, free 5pm–9pm Crown Point Press: Open 10am–8pm (always free) Mirus Gallery: Open 12–9pm (always free) MoAD: Free 11am–8pm SFMOMA: Free 10am–9pm (reserve your tickets) SPUR: Open 9am–5pm with a ticketed talk at 6pm YBCA: Free 11am–8pm Yerba Buena Gardens Festival: Performance by Ricardo Lemvo, 6–7:30pmk 111 Minna: Open 7am–9pm (always free)

See the full list of participating spaces here.

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