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M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
Since 1895
The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, United States, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. Located on the West Side of the city in Golden Gate Park, it is a component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, along with the Legion of Honor.
The museum received 999,645 visitors in 2023, ranking as the 22nd most-visited museum in the United States, and the 82nd most-visited art museum in the world.
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The building was badly damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and was closed for a year and a half for repairs, reopening in November 1907.
When the structure was demolished and replaced by a new building, which opened in 2005, the only remaining original elements of the old de Young were the vases and sphinxes located near the Pool of Enchantment.
The museum opened in 1895 in one of the buildings originally constructed for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 (a fair modeled on the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of the previous year).
The current building was completed by architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Fong + Chan and opened on October 15, 2005.
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