free museum days

11 THINGS: Free Museum Days

Thursday, September 28, 2006

1. First Tuesdays: Asian Art Museum, California Historical Society, Cartoon Art Museum (pay what you wish), Conservatory of Flowers, de Young Museum, Legion of Honor, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

2. First Wednesdays: California Academy of Sciences, Exploratorium, Mexican Museum, Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco African American Museum and San Francisco Zoo.

3. First Thursdays: Chinese Historical Society of America, Pez Museum (Burlingame) and the San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design.

4. Second Saturdays: Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito).

5. Second Sundays: Oakland Museum of California.

6. Third Mondays: Contemporary Jewish Museum.

7. Thursdays: Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley).

8. Free public tours: San Francisco City Hall, Contemporary Jewish Museum (12:30 p.m. Sun. and Wed.), Gold Rush Trail, San Francisco City Guides, San Francisco Botanical Garden, others.

9. Always free: African-American Museum and Library (Oakland), Cable Car Museum, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Chinese Cultural Center, Maritime Museum, Mills College Art Museum (Oakland), Museum of Children's Art Oakland, Museum of the City of San Francisco, Octagon House, Presidio Museum, Randall Museum, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco Fire Museum, Takara Sake USA Museum (Berkeley), Triton Museum (Santa Clara).

10. Sometimes free: Habitot, including Oct. 6 (Mooncake Festival) and Oct. 8 (Indigenous People's Day).

11. Free, but coin-operated: Musée Mécanique.

Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

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