Must-see attractions in The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

  • Balmy Alley

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Since at least the 1980s, if you stroll through San Francisco's Mission District you've likely noticed the neighborhood's profusion of colorful murals and…

  • Dolores Park - San Francisco, California

    Dolores Park

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Welcome to San Francisco's sunny side, the land of street ball and Mayan-pyramid playgrounds, semiprofessional tanning and taco picnics. Although the…

  • Clarion Alley lined with murals.

    Clarion Alley

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    The Mission District has a long history of street art and muralismo – an oft-political school of public art prevalent throughout South and Central America…

  • 826 Valencia

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Avast, ye scurvy scallywags! If ye be shipwrecked without yer eye patch or McSweeney's literary anthology, lay down ye doubloons and claim yer booty at…

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    Women's Building

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    A renowned and beloved Mission landmark since 1979, the nation's first women-owned-and-operated community center is festooned with one of the neighborhood…

  • Catharine Clark Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Art revolutions are instigated at Catharine Clark, a showcase for such gorgeous provocations as Masami Teraoka's paintings of superheroine geishas and…

  • Bernal Heights Park

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    The breezy, grassland slopes of 475ft Bernal Hill are decidedly non-touristy, and hiking them on a clear day offers 360-degree city views, along with rare…

  • Mission Dolores

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    The city's oldest building and its namesake, whitewashed adobe Misión San Francisco de Asís was founded in 1776 and rebuilt from 1782. Today the modest…

  • Jack Fischer Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Strange fascination is showcased at Jack Fischer Gallery – for example, sketches made by Agelio Batle's graphite skeleton as it jitters across a lab table…

  • Anglim Gilbert Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    The Bay Area hits the big time here, with gallery director Ed Gilbert continuing Anglim's 30-year legacy of launching art movements, from Beat assemblage…

  • Casemore Kirkeby

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Ever since gold-rush miners captured their newfound wealth with ferrotype portraits, San Francisco has staked claims to artistic fame with photography –…

  • Creativity Explored

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Brave new worlds are captured in celebrated artworks destined for museum retrospectives, international shows and even Marc Jacobs handbags and CB2…

  • Dearborn Community Garden

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Welcome to paradise in a parking lot. When the local Pepsi bottling plant closed in the 1970s, neighbors wouldn't let urban blight take over the block –…

  • Aesthetic Union

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Upgrade from kitten posters to frame-worthy original SF artworks hand-printed in this working printmakers' studio. Watch prints pulled from a vintage…

  • 24th & York Mini Park

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Take a ride on dazzling mosaic serpent-god Quetzalcoatl, who raises his fierce head from the rubberized ground of this pioneering pocket park…

  • Incline Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Ramp up your art collection at Incline, a sloping gallery at the rear of an ex-mortuary where bodies were once transported for embalming. Today this is…

  • Southern Exposure

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Art really ties the room together at nonprofit arts center Southern Exposure, where works are carefully crafted not just with paint and canvas, but a…

  • Ratio 3

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Art-fair buzz begins at this trippy gallery that's all black outside and stark white inside for maximum impact. While some artists are recognizable from…

  • Hosfelt Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Trancelike states are often induced by Hosfelt, where visitors step from gritty sidewalks into dreamy, finely detailed interior worlds. Close inspection…

  • Museum of Craft & Design

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    Elephants created from sewn-together maps, benches made from repurposed shovel handles, factory-floor scenes recreated entirely in duct tape: one-off…

  • SOMArts

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    All roads in San Francisco's art underground lead to this nonprofit creative community hub under a highway overpass. Shows have featured eviction letters…

  • California College of the Arts

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    A generous endowment and whip-smart curators allow the Wattis Institute to take on ambitious, sweeping shows – for example, an exhibition reimagining…

  • Eleanor Harwood Gallery

    The Mission, Dogpatch & Potrero Hill

    A curiosity cupboard of major Bay Area talents. Works showcased here are entrancing and meticulous – past shows have featured Dana Hemenway's dazzling…

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