Question for San Franciscoins, or frequent visitors...

[electric_blue68]

Sparked by the GD thread, but not about that area.

I went to SF amongst other places in '79 on a cross country trip. Had a great visit.
Almost positive I stopped in Golden Gate Park bc I love parks; plus there were 2 art museums (pretty sure they were both art museums) there.

One was then hosting Tukenkhoman's gigantic exhibition which I'd already seen back in NYC. The other pretty near by was having "5,000 Years of Korean Art". A quite lovely exhibit which bc of King Tut may have had less visitors than usual. It made viewing the exhibit very easy!

I can't say much else bc I lost the majority of my travel slides including the GGP slides, The Palace of Fine Arts... Sigh. I have the most critical ones, but still. 😑

So does anyone remember there being 2 art museums in GGP, or one Art Museum, and another near by that even if it wasn't an Art Museum would have hosted the King Tut exhibit anyway?
Tia!

[jls4561]

1. There are indeed two museums in Golden Gate Park. The deYoung, which is probably the one that

Had the Tutankhamen exhibit, and the Academy of Sciences. The deYoung used to have an Asian Art wing, which is probably where you saw the Korean Art. All that got moved and now there is a separate Asian Art Museum near Civic Center.

So much changed after the earthquake.

The Palace of Fine Arts is still there by the Pacific and lovely as ever.

[red dog 1]

5. You're right, the De Young Museum did have the King Tut exhibit. I know this because I visited it. (very long lines)

[TommyT139]

2. Here you go

Looks like it was at the DeYoung. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (*sigh*)

From November 1976 to April 1979, “Treasures of Tutankhamun” traveled to six American cities with the help of NEH grants.

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/septemberoctober/feature/king-tut-classic-blockbuster-museum-exhibition-began-diplom

Looks like quite the do, going by the photos:
When King Tut ruled San Francisco in 1979

https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Our-SF-King-Tut-ruled-San-Francisco-in-1979-6431995.php
No paywall:
https://archive.is/wMJfY

[red dog 1]

6. Thanks for those links

[electric_blue68]

3. Thanks, both of you.

Will check the links tomorrow 👍

[electric_blue68]

4. Well just Googled...

The Tutankhamun exhibit was held at the de Young Museum.

The Korean exhibit was held at The Asian Art Museum.