de Young Museum & Hagiwara Japanese Tea Garden Visit 04-22-06

Today (or should I say yesterday) was a fun day trip to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It was my first trip to the facility since before the Asian Art Museum moved out. I saw the Zen: Painting & Calligraphy, 17th–20th Centuries show there in summer 2001.

The new facility tripped me out from the very beginning.

I turned into Golden Gate park on 10th Avenue from Fulton, directly into a parking garage under the de Young Museum. Little did I know, that was only the beginning of the renovations going on in the area. The things that looked the same were the Japanese Tea Garden and the middle ampitheatre section where sometimes live music is played. Everything else looked re-done.

Pictures from around the de Young Museum:

Pictures from around the Hagiwara Japanese Tea Garden