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San Francisco Museum Exhibits: 2024 & 2025 Schedule
by Jill Loeffler •
Discover a full calendar of current and upcoming San Francisco museum exhibits.
My schedule offers a monthly look at the top shows at popular museums such as the de Young, the SF Museum of Modern Art, and the Asian Art Museum.
The calendar includes traveling and temporary exhibits with the dates they will be open to the public.
You will need to buy a ticket in addition to the general admission tickets for many of the art exhibits.
You can pick these up when you arrive or in advance online.
Click the links below to jump ahead to a specific month:
Disclaimer: I receive a small commission from some of the links on this page.
The SF Asian Art Museum hosts a number of amazing exhibits every year. They usually have one to two traveling exhibits at a time throughout the year.December 2024
Asian Art Museum
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, 9/27 - 1/6
Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, 12/12 - 4/7
Contemporary Jewish Museum
California Jewish Open, 6/6 - 12/15
Leah Rosenberg: When One Sees a Rainbow, 6/6 - 12/15
Nicki Green: Firmament, 9/5 - 12/15
Looted, 9/5 - 12/15
L'Chaim: Celebrating Our Building at 15, 2/16 - 12/15
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Tamara de Lempicka, 10/12 - 2/9
Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries, 10/19 - 1/12
Robert Bechtle: Prints and Drawings, 8/10 - 1/5
Nampeyo and the Sikyátki Revival, through 1/12
Legion of Honor
Mary Cassatt at Work, 10/5 - 1/26
Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design, 11/9 - 4/27
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Museum of African Diaspora
Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy, 10/2 - 3/2
Helina Metaferia: What We Carry To Set Ourselves Free, 10/2 - 3/2
Jessica Monette: Unveiling Histories, A Fabricated Archive, 10/2 - 12/15
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, 11/5/2022 - 1/26/2025
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Get in the Game, 10/19 - 2/18
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit, 9/28 - 2/9
When the World is Watching, through 4/27/2025
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Count Me In, 8/17 - 4/27
(Super)Natural: Paul Klee & Masako Miki, 8/17 - 1/12
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime, 11/16 - 3/9
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Directing at Disney, 10/17 - March 2025
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
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January 2025
Asian Art Museum
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, 9/27 - 1/6
Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, 12/12 - 4/7
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Tamara de Lempicka, 10/12 - 2/9
Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries, 10/19 - 1/12
Robert Bechtle: Prints and Drawings, 8/10 - 1/5
Nampeyo and the Sikyátki Revival, through 1/12
Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound, 1/25 - 7/6
Legion of Honor
Mary Cassatt at Work, 10/5 - 1/26
Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design, 11/9 - 4/27
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Museum of African Diaspora
Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy, 10/2 - 3/2
Helina Metaferia: What We Carry To Set Ourselves Free, 10/2 - 3/2
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, 11/5/2022 - 1/26/2025
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Get in the Game, 10/19 - 2/18
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit, 9/28 - 2/9
When the World is Watching, through 4/27/2025
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Count Me In, 8/17 - 4/27
(Super)Natural: Paul Klee & Masako Miki, 8/17 - 1/12
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime, 11/16 - 3/9
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Directing at Disney, 10/17 - March 2025
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
February 2025
Asian Art Museum
Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, 12/12 - 4/7
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Tamara de Lempicka, 10/12 - 2/9
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON, 11/16 - 6/29
Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound, 1/25 - 7/6
Legion of Honor
Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design, 11/9 - 4/27
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Museum of African Diaspora
Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy, 10/2 - 3/2
Helina Metaferia: What We Carry To Set Ourselves Free, 10/2 - 3/2
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Get in the Game, 10/19 - 2/18
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit, 9/28 - 2/9
When the World is Watching, through 4/27/2025
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Count Me In, 8/17 - 4/27
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime, 11/16 - 3/9
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Directing at Disney, 10/17 - March 2025
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
>> Event calendar for February in San Francisco
March 2025
Asian Art Museum
Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, 12/12 - 4/7
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON, 11/16 - 6/29
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963 - 64: Eyes of the Storm, 3/1 - 7/6
Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound, 1/25 - 7/6
Legion of Honor
Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design, 11/9 - 4/27
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art, 3/22 - 8/17
Museum of African Diaspora
Liberatory Living: Protective Interiors & Radical Black Joy, 10/2 - 3/2
Helina Metaferia: What We Carry To Set Ourselves Free, 10/2 - 3/2
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
When the World is Watching, through 4/27/2025
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Count Me In, 8/17 - 4/27
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime, 11/16 - 3/9
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Directing at Disney, 10/17 - March 2025
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
>> San Francisco events in March
April 2025
Asian Art Museum
Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, 12/12 - 4/7
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON, 11/16 - 6/29
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963 - 64: Eyes of the Storm, 3/1 - 7/6
Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound, 1/25 - 7/6
Legion of Honor
Dress Rehearsal: The Art of Theatrical Design, 11/9 - 4/27
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
When the World is Watching, through 4/27/2025
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Count Me In, 8/17 - 4/27
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
>> April events calendar for San Francisco
May 2025
de Young Museum of Fine Art
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family, 3/16/24 - 3/15/26
Leilah Babirye: We Have a History, 6/22/24 - 10/26/25
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift, 8/10/2024 - 11/30/2025
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON, 11/16 - 6/29
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963 - 64: Eyes of the Storm, 3/1 - 7/6
Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound, 1/25 - 7/6
Legion of Honor
Celebrating 100 Years at the Legion of Honor, through November 2, 2025
Printing Color: Chiaroscuro to Screenprint, 5/24 - 11/30
Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, 6/22 - May 2025
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 7/1 - Spring 2026
Unity through Skateboarding, 8/17 - 5/4
Table Manners, 9/14 - May 2025
New Work: Samson Young, 12/21 - 6/22
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography, 11/23 - July 2025
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut, 12/14 - 5/26
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Walt Disney Treasures Objects, New Object every two months, through September 2025
>> May events calendar for San Francisco
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