Asian Art Museum Free on SundaysJesse Nathanbyline‚ Feb. 29‚ 2008Once the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, the building now housing the Asian Art Museum holds a collection of more than 17,000 treasures spanning 6,000 years of history. After the library moved down the street, Gae Aulenti (who designed Paris’ Musee d’Orsay) revamped the interior into a high-ceilinged, beaux arts showcase for one of the more enormous gatherings of Asian art in the western hemisphere. Now, all that glory’s been made more accessible to the not-so-wealthy or the busy-with-the-family-types (read: parents and small children). How so? The museum—and it’s the first in San Francisco to take this democratizing step—has moved its monthly free-day to Sunday starting May 4. |