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Begin your tour of the exciting and dynamic new area south of Market Street at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 Third Street, closed Wednesdays). Built in 1995 on a design by Swiss architect Mario Botta, the museum's striped cylinder has become a local landmark. Even more interesting inside than out, dizzying catwalks take museum goers through the heart of its daring study in light and space, and are at least as noteworthy as the museum's permanent collection. The San Francisco MOMA's strong suit has long been its photography holdings; important works by Ansel Adams, Carier-Bresson, and Stieglitz make it one of the strongest photography collections in the country. The temporary exhibitions draw huge crowds. If you are in San Francisco for a convention or other event at the Moscone Center, it's just around the corner.

Above the Moscone Center, whose business end is underground, is the successful Yerba Buena Center complex. Planted atop Moscone Center North are the 5-1/2-acre Yerba Buena Gardens. A large, beautifully arranged collection of plants from around the world which give onto a reflection pool, which in turn overflows in a waterfall over the Martin Luther King monument below. The adjoining Yerba Buena Center for the Arts features a two-story gallery with temporary exhibitions, often of multimedia works or large kinetic sculptures, as well as a screening room with a frequently-changing schedule of experimental and documentary films. Jazz and other musical and theatrical works are presented in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater.

Yerba Buena Center continues across Howard Street, over Moscone Center South, with plenty to offer if you have kids in tow. The brand-new Yerba Buena Ice Skating and Bowling Center features a year-round, indoor skating rink, a handsome and airy facility with a glass wall onto the skyscrapers downtown. Open skating, figure skating lessons, and hockey leagues rotate throughout the day. Skate rental is available, and a cozy, family-friendly bowling alley is fun too. Next door is the Zeum, an imaginative children's technology museum, where kids can try their hand at video production and learn about the frontiers of computer science. In front of Zeum, an antique carousel rescued from Golden Gate Park spins merrily in a glass enclosure over Howard Street.

Across Howard Street you can see the back end of the imposing Metreon, Sony's four-story, sixteen-screen entertainment megalith. Colored like one of Sony's Vaio computers, but considerably larger and more angular, it houses 16 movie screens including three IMAX screens, children's attractions based on Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and Peter MacCaulay's "The Way Things Work," and a deluxe food court catered by some of the city's better restaurants. And, of course, Sonystyle, a Sony store.

And you might want to take in the Cartoon Art Museum which more than rewards the one-block trek to 655 Mission St. between 2nd and 3rd, around the corner from the Metreon.







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Sonystyle


Land of everything Sony
 101 Fourth Street
(at the corner of Mission Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 369 6050
http://www.sonystyle.com
Sonystyle
Golden Gate Park


Over a Thousand Acres
 Stanyan & Haight Streets
San Francisco, CA 94118
+1 415 831 2700
http://www.sfgov.org/
Golden Gate Park
Metreon


Brushed chrome diversion!
 101 Fourth Street
(at the corner of Mission Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 567 1004
http://www.metreon.com/
Metreon
Zeum


Art with an edge
 221 4th Street
(at Howard Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 820 3320
http://www.zeum.org/
Zeum
Yerba Buena Ice Skating & Bowling Center


Year-round ice-skating and bowling
 750 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 777 3727
http://www.skatebowl.com/
Yerba Buena Ice Skating & Bowling Center
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)


Pablo Picasso & Matthew Barney
 151 3rd Street
(between Howard & Mission Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 357 4000
http://www.sfmoma.org
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)


Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
 701 Mission St.
(between 3rd & 4th Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94103
+1 415 978 2787
www.ybca.org
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
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