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The Legion of Honor Celebrates Veterans Day
9/29/2006 Free Admission for All Military Personnel and Veterans, November 11, 2006 San Francisco, September 29, 2000—In celebration of the 88th anniversary of Armistice Day and the end of World War I, on Saturday, November 11 the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents special programming at the Legion of Honor. In addition, admission to the museum will be free for all active duty military personnel and veterans. Exhibitions on view at the Legion on Veterans Day will include Claude Lorrain—The Painter as Draftsman: Drawings from the British Museum, and Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart Works on Paper 1940–1992.
Planned for Saturday is a concert of patriotic music performed on the Legion’s landmark Skinner organ. The concert begins at 4 p.m. In addition, the Book of Gold, a commemorative book created by Alma Spreckels containing the names and hometowns of all Californian soldiers, sailors, and marines killed in the First World War will be on display. The book is signed by notables including General John J. Pershing, Commander of American Forces in France, and French Marshalls Foch, Joffre, and Petain. More information on the Book of Gold, including a searchable PDF of the book’s names, can be found on the Legion’s web site www.legionofhonor.org.
This Veterans Day also marks the 82nd anniversary of the founding of the Legion of Honor by Adolf and Alma Spreckels. The museum was a gift from the Spreckels family in 1924 to the city of San Francisco in commemoration of California soldiers killed in World War I.
Admission Fees and Hours
The Legion of Honor open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors age 65 and older, $6 for youths ages 13–17, and children 12 and under are free. There is a $2 discount on paid admission upon presentation of a valid MUNI transfer or Fast Pass. Admission tickets to the Legion may be used on the same day for free entrance to the de Young. Admission is free at both museums on the first Tuesday of the month. For further information please call the Hotline at 415-863-3330 or visit www.legionofhonor.org.
About the Legion of Honor
The Legion of Honor is located in San Francisco's Lincoln Park (34th Avenue and Clement Street). Its collections span 4000 years and include major holdings in Rodin sculpture; paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, de La Tour, Vigée Le Brun, Cézanne, Monet, and Picasso, among other Dutch, Italian, German, English, and French masters; a 15th-century Spanish ceiling, European decorative arts, tapestries, and over 80,000 prints and drawings.
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