FREE ADMISSION TO BAY AREA MUSEUMS MAY 9 TO CELEBRATE KORET FOUNDATION'S 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Museums that have received Koret Foundation support in the past quarter-century are toasting the Foundation's 25th anniversary with a gift to the community - — an invitation to come by and visit, no charge — on Mother's Day.
Koret Day Around the Bay will feature free admission and a range of special events and tours at these participating museums on Sunday, May 9:
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Francisco
(415) 581-3500
Exhibitions include Montien Boonma: Temple of the Mind, and The
Monumental Landscapes of Li Huayi.
Bay
Area Discovery Museum
East Fort Baker
557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito
(415) 339-3900
Bay Area Discovery Museum opens its highlight exhibition of the year, Can
You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? and hosts its annual
Mother's Day Kite Festival. Free admission all weekend.
Chabot
Space & Science Center
10000 Skyline Boulevard, Oakland
(510) 336-7300
Enjoy a planetarium show as well as Mars Encounter, One
Giant Leap: A Moon Odyssey; Discovery Lab, a play space
for children ages 4 to 7; and hands-on science activities co-led by
Galaxy Explorers, the teen interns funded by Koret.
The Contemporary
Jewish Museum
121 Steuart Street, San Francisco
(415) 591-8800
View 100 Artists See God, a traveling exhibition (on view
through June 27) that offers individual interpretations of spirituality.
The artists selected for this exhibition possess the sensitivity, sense
of humor, and audacity necessary to tackle the issue of picturing the
divine, and include Chris Burden, Damien Hirst, Leonard Nimoy, Catherine
Opie, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, and Ed Ruscha.
The
Exploratorium
3601 Lyon Street (inside the Palace of Fine Arts), San Francisco
(415) 561-0360
(415) 561-0362 Tactile Dome Reservations
The Exploratorium, foremost among the world's interactive museums,
is like a mad scientist's penny arcade, a scientific funhouse and an
experimental laboratory all rolled into one. With hundreds of hands-on
exhibits, all you need is curiosity. Touch a tornado, shape a glowing
electrical current, or take a sensory journey in total darkness in
the Tactile Dome (separate admission; reservations required).
Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, San Francisco
(415) 863-3330
Exhibitions include Art Deco 1910-1939 (separate admission
of $7); Between Promise and Possibility: Adi Nes; Photo-Image
in American Prints 1960-1990; and Art Deco Capitalism: Fortune
Magazine in the 1930s.
Lindsay
Wildlife Museum
1931 First Avenue, Walnut Creek
(925) 935-1978
This museum exhibits live, non-releasable native wildlife and operates
the oldest and one of the largest wildlife rehabilitation hospitals
in the United States, treating more than 60,000 injured and orphaned
wild animals each year.
Judah
L. Magnes Museum
2911 Russell Street, Berkeley
(510) 549-6950
The third largest Jewish museum in the country, the Magnes is exhibiting Brought
to Light, sponsored by the Koret Foundation, and Jewish Freemasons
of the West, highlighting the archival holdings of the Magnes'
Western Jewish History Center.
Oakland
Zoo
9777 Golf Links Road, Oakland
(510) 632-9525
Talk to the animals at the Oakland Zoo, and take a free ride on the
zoo train.
San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street, San Francisco
(415) 357-4000
Exhibitions are the National Gallery of Art's The Art of Romare
Bearden, supported by the Koret Foundation, and Pop! From
San Francisco Collections, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Roy
Lichtenstein and Wayne Thiebaud.
San Francisco
Zoo
Sloat Boulevard at the Great Highway, San Francisco
(415) 753-7080
Celebrate Mother's Day with our most experienced moms! Meet Cuddles,
the hippo who's given birth to 16 offspring and Ellie, the black rhinoceros
who has mothered 14 calves. You might even catch a glimpse of a penguin
hatchling at Penguin Island.
Hackworth
IMAX Theater at The Tech Museum of Innovation
201 South Market Street, San Jose
(408) 294-TECH (8324)
Enjoy a complimentary ticket to the Tech's IMAX Theater, with nine
screenings on Mother's Day, including Bugs!, Top Speed,
and NASCAR: The IMAX Experience. Seating is limited. First-come,
first-served.
Zeum
221 Fourth Street, San Francisco
(415) 777-2800
Zeum hosts its annual Youth Arts Festival featuring 1,500 works of
art by San Francisco school students, as well as creative, hands-on
art activities led by local artists. Finish the day with a free ride
on Zeum's carousel.
Contact: Director of Communications, Koret Foundation | 415-882-7740