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In Golden Gate Park, the de Young Museum is the principal fine-art museum of San Francisco and one of the most architecturally striking buildings in the city. Founded in 1895 as a permanent legacy of the California Midwinter International Exposition by newspaper publisher M. H. de Young, the museum has occupied several iterations of building on the same Golden Gate Park site, the current copper-clad structure designed by the celebrated Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron opening to enormous acclaim ...