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4 Children's Creativity Museum
MUSEUM
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No velvet ropes or hands-off signs here: kids have free reign, with high-tech displays
double-daring them to make music videos, claymation movies and soundtracks. Jump
right into a live-action video game, sign up for workshops with Bay Area robot-builders,
or hop a ride on the restored 1906 Looff Carousel out front ($4 for two rides; operates un-
til 5:30pm daily). (
415-820-3320; www.zeum.org ; 221 4th St; admission $11;
10am-4pm Wed-Sun Sep-
May, Tue-Sun Jun-Aug;
;
Powell,
Powell)
Local Life
SFMOMA Expansion
A half-billion-dollar expansion is in the works through 2016 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(SFMOMA;
OFFLINE MAP , E3;
415-357-4000; www.sfmoma.org ; 151 3rd St;
Montgomery,
Montgomery) .
Meanwhile, the SFMOMA Museum Store (
OFFLINE MAP , E3; 415-357-4035; www.sfmoma.org/museumstore ; 51 Yerba Buena Lane;
11am-7pm Mon-Sat, noon-5pm Sun; ; Powell, Powell) feeds design fetishes with architect- worthy
watches, high-tech tableware and coffeetable art books from a temporary Yerba Buena Lane location.
5 Museum of the African Diaspora
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MUSEUM
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MoAD has assembled an international cast of characters to tell the epic story of the Afric-
an diaspora: a regal couple by Nigerian British sensation Chris Ofili, Harlem jazz portraits
by Romare Bearden, and Siddi family quilts by Indians descended from African slaves.
Don't miss the moving video of slave narratives narrated by Maya Angelou. (MoAD;
415-358-7200; www.moadsf.org ; 685 Mission St; adult/student/child $10/5/free;
11am-6pm Wed-Sat, noon-5pm
Sun;
Montgomery,
Montgomery)
 
 
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