Target Arts & Wonder Free Family Event is San Francisco’s biggest weekend-long marathon of free family fun with free general admission to six leading museums and free art activities and performances.
Six Great Museums * Three Thrilling Days * July 16-18, 2010 * One Big Free For All * Only in San Francisco
The following San Francisco venues take turns welcoming families with FREE general admission, FREE hands-on art making activities and FREE family-friendly performances over one weekend in July (see below for specific dates and times):
Friday, July 16, 2010 TIME: 5 to 8:45 PM
de Young Museum* www.deyoungmuseum.org
  • Turn the Target mascot Bullseye into a work of Andy Warhol-inspired Pup Art
  • Get a lift as you watch a ballet performance celebrating the Impressionist painter Degas
* Please note that all de Young exhibitions are free except Birth of Impressionism. A special timed ticket for $15 adults, $10 children ages 6-17 is required for entry to this exhibition only. Children 5 and under are free.
Saturday, July 17, 2010 TIME: 10 AM to 5 PM
Asian Art Museum* www.asianart.org
  • Journey from India to Japan as you stroll through the galleries
  • Take a storytelling tour and learn about gods, goddesses, emperors, philosophers and more
* Please note that all Asian Art Museum exhibitions are free except Shanghai. A ticket for $5 for ages 18 and older is required for entry to this exhibition only. Youth 17 and under are free.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 TIME: 11 AM to 4 PM
Five locations downtown San Francisco:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) www.sfmoma.org
  • Go BIG -- see for yourself how larger-than-life artworks transform the ordinary into the EXTRAordinary
  • Create your own enormous art -- make an everyday object into something 10 times its size
Contemporary Jewish Museum www.thecjm.org
  • Celebrate the everyday in the whimsical exhibition Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
  • Marvel at the magic of ordinary objects by crafting fabric buttons, decorating bags and watching Sweet Can Productions make brooms dance and more
Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) www.moadsf.org
  • Tour the exhibition African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals
  • Try your hand at Haitian tooled metal sculpture
Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum www.zeum.org
  • Sculpt and film your own clay animation
  • Ride the historic Zeum Carousel
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival www.ybgf.org
  • Come in costume and get ready to join the conga line as we celebrate the international spirit of Carnaval with non-stop performances in the Gardens from 12-3 PM by Mas Makers Massive, SambAsia, Fogo Na Roupa, Sistas-wit-Style, Tambores de Colombian Soul, Latin All Stars, Chelle! and Friends, and Mixtiso

Participating Institutions