- Open photographyŃno flash photo permits required
- Free admission to museum for all
- Special programming relating to historical periods
- Museum store sale
- Special related exhibitions (until December 31):
- A Work in Progress: The Evolution of the de Young Museum Buildings
- A New de Young in Golden Gate Park: Concept Plan by Herzog and de Meuron
Tuesday, December 26, 2000: "The de Young in the 1890sŠ1910s" - 10 amŠ5 pm Museum open
- 10:30 amŠnoon Kids' art activity: memory coloring books
- 2Š4 pm Ragtime music by Marty Eggers and Virginia Tichenor
- 1Š2 pm Mary Sano and Her Isadora Duncan Dancers
- 1 pm "History of the de Young" docent slide lecture, Gallery 20
Wednesday, December 27, 2000: "The de Young in the 1920sŠ1930s" - 10 amŠ5 pm Museum open
- 10:30 amŠnoon Kids' Art Activity: Trompe L'Oeil Bulletin Boards
- 1Š2 pm Ō20s and Ō30s Music by the Red Garter Band
- 1 pm "History of the de Young" docent slide lecture, Gallery 20
Thursday, December 28, 2000: "The de Young in the 1940sŠ1950s" - 10 amŠ5 pm Museum open
- 10:30 am-Šnoon Kids' art activity: memory coloring books
- 1:00 pm "History of the de Young" docent slide lecture, Gallery 20
- 2Š4 pm Ō40s and Ō50s music by the David Hardiman Sextet
Friday, December 29, 2000: "The de Young in the 1960sŠ1970s" - 10 amŠ5 pm Museum open
- 10:30 amŠnoon Kids' Art Activity: Trompe L'Oeil Bulletin Boards
- 1 pm "History of the de Young" docent slide lecture, Gallery 20
- 2Š4 pm Ō60s and Ō70s Music by the David Hardiman Sextet
Saturday, December 30, 2000: "The de Young in the 1980s-Today" - 10 am- MUSEUM MARATHON: de Young open continuously
through Sunday, December 31. - 10:30 amŠnoon Kids' Art Activity: memory coloring books
- 1Š2 pm Slide lecture, Trustees AuditoriumŃ"History of the de Young," Robert Judson Clark, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
- 2-4 pm World music by John Santos and Friends
- 6-9 pm Cash bar
- 6-8 pm Swing music by Once Over Lightly
- 11 pm-2 am West African Orisha ceremonyŃAfrican Galleries
- 12 am Midnight docent tour
Sunday, December 31, 2000: Farewell DayŃ"The de Young in the Future" - 12 am-11 am Multidenominational "Rites of Passage"
Various cultures will be represented, including, but not limited to: - Aztec Dancers
- Guatemalan Mayan
- West African
- Pacific Islander
- California Native American
- Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)
- 11 amŠnoon Japanese bell-ringing ceremony (Asian Art Museum)
- 1:15 pm Photo opportunity for public in Hearst Court
- 2Š4 pm Formal Farewell Ceremony
Themes: For the Children and Future Generations; New Beginnings, Metamorphosis, Celebration of the Past, Marching into the Future Participants include: -John Handy Band with young guest artists -Kyo Won Han, Baritone, SF Opera Center, with the San Francisco Boys Chorus -Jennifer Wey (10-year-old virtuoso violinist, San Francisco Conservatory of Music) -Ryan Houston (14-year-old singing sensation, Branson School) -MacTarnahan's Prince Charles Pipe Band, Junior Corps -St. Mary's Chinese Girls Drum and Bell Corps -Leigh Marshall, (10-year-old artist), lead artist for Arte di Gesso, sidewalk chalk drawing by young people (co-sponsored with the North Beach Chamber of Commerce) -Whitney Spencer (13-year old poet, San Francisco Arts Commission Writers' Corps) -Special Tributes by directors of sister institutions, including the Asian Art Museum, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the San Francisco Zoo, and the San Francisco Opera -4 p.m. John Handy Band -5 p.m. Museum closes to the public until 2005
The Asian Art Museum will resume normal admission fees on 1 January 2001. It will remain open to the public until 7 October 2001. The Asian will relocate from its current site to a new facility in San Francisco's Civic Center in Fall, 2002.
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