Do you only go to San Francisco International Airport to catch a plane or pick someone up?
Well, treat yourself to a visit just for fun. Head to the international terminal where the San Francisco Airport Museums celebrate SFO’s 80th anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and airline memorabilia tracing the transformation of a dirt airstrip into one of the world’s busiest airports. The display fills the cases of the Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum, modeled after the passenger waiting area of SFO’s 1937 air terminal. Want to learn more about air transport? The 6,000-volume San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library in the museum’s upstairs gallery welcomes you.
The international terminal also hosts the limited run "Collecting by Design: Silver & Metalwork of the Twentieth Century,” a showcase of 350 works owned by prominent interior architect Margo Grant Walsh. Hmong Textiles and Dragon Vests from rarely seen private collections are on display nearby. Permanent art at SFO includes more than 60 works by such artists as William Wiley, Wayne Thiebaud, Isamu Noguchi, Manuel Neri, Roy DeForest and Sam Francis. Free brochures on the works and their locations are available at airport information booths. The Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum is open Sunday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed Saturdays and holidays. Admission is free. No need for a car. Caltrain and BART will get you there. (Ride SFO’s free AirTrain its entire route for spectacular views of airport activities.) For more information about the San Francisco International Airport Museums, call 821-6700 or visit www.sfoarts.org
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