Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, United States
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
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- Opening hours
- 24/7 off
- Admission
- Ticketed
- Wheelchair access
- Accessible
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum occupies the transformed Jessie Street Substation at 736 Mission Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. Founded in 1984 as a non-collecting institution, the museum underwent a dramatic reinvention when architect Daniel Libeskind gutted the historic building's interior and added new construction, reopening in 2008. Libeskind's redesign preserved the substation's architectural heritage while creating contemporary exhibition spaces aligned with the museum's mission to present the diversity of Jewish experience to twenty-first-century audiences through exhibitions and educational programming.
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- Type
- museum, nonprofit organization
- Place
- San Francisco, United States
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