San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art

The 1995 Mario Botta-designed building with the 2016 Snøhetta-designed addition behind it
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Established	1935 (1935)
Location	151 Third Street San Francisco, California, United States
Coordinates	37°47′8.88″N 122°24′3.60″W / 37.7858000°N 122.4010000°W / 37.7858000; -122.4010000
Collection size	33,000
Visitors	1,113,984 (2017)
Director	Christopher Bedford
President	Diana Nelson[1]
Chairperson	Robert J. Fisher[1]
Architect	Mario Botta, 1995; Snøhetta, 2016
Public transit access	Montgomery Street
Website	www.sfmoma.org

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.^[2] The collection is displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m²) of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art.^[3] In 2024, SFMOMA was ranked 14th in the Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S.^[4]

The museum was founded in 1935 with galleries in the Veterans Building in Civic Center. In 1995, the museum opened in its Mario Botta-designed home in the SoMa district. On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure for a major expansion project by Snøhetta architects, the museum re-opened to the public with more than double the gallery space and almost six times as much public space as the previous building,^[5] allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanding collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art.^[6]