For some choice art, check out the works of Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, and Louise Bourgeois at the museum’s Strange Days: Dada, Surrealism, and the Book exhibit.

You can also check out the Presidio-based museum’s permanent art collection, as well as the Salon Doré, an 18th-century French period room that’s a must-see.

Want to see some zany fashions? Head over to the Legion of Honor to pore over its Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin. To wit: “The first museum retrospective of renowned tattoo artist and California native Ed Hardy tracks his goal of elevating the tattoo from its subculture status to an important visual art form. The exhibition surveys Hardy’s life in art that has as its inspiration both traditional American tattooing and Japan’s ukiyo-e era culture.”

And don’t miss Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s 21-foot-tall safety pin sculpture on the exterior grounds.

From over 400 dazzling specimens from the Academy’s geology collection to penguin feedings and an albino alligator (his name is Claude!), this Golden Gate Park museum of science, located directly across from the de Young, will satisfy science nerds who want to eschew Sunday’s big-game brainlessness. The living roof, a 2.5-acre undulating roof with an estimated 1.7 million plants, should be on your list.

Late founder Ed Zelinsky opened the original Musée Mécanique more than 40 years ago at the Cliff House. Ed’s contraptions—roughly 300 in all—almost ended up homeless after the Cliff House remodeled in 2002, but the city stepped in and helped Zelinksy secure a locale at Pier 45. The coin-operated dioramas are examples of carnival ingenuity and oodles of fun.

This small yet powerful corner museum in the heart of the TL features works that represent the Tenderloin’s cultural, architectural, political, and musical history. 

Cable car inventor Andrew Smith Hallidie, a mining engineer, got his inspiration for the iconic vehicles after seeing a team of horses meet a gruesome fate when they slipped on a wet street while dragging a load uphill in 1869. And the rest is history. Speaking of which, you can learn all about said history and more at the Cable Car Museum. Best of all, the museum deck overlooks the massive engines and winding wheels that pull the cables.

While Richard Serra’s “Sequence” sculpture can no longer be seen here—you will be able to find some of the greatest works of contemporary art the world has to offer inside this stunning space, expanded in 2016 to great acclaim)—French artist JR, a TED Prize winner and Oscar nominee known for his black-and-white photography and trademark sunglasses, has created an animated mural called The Chronicles of San Francisco,

While you’re there, check out the museum’s Andy Warhol exhibit, which reaches across three floors at the museum, featuring a dozen well-known pieces as well as uncommon works from the noted pop artist.

Bring the kids to this popular hands-on museums, which features such cool stuff as a tactile dome, a bicycle wheel gyro, a parabolic eye mirror, and a Slinky treadmill.

Here you will find ceramics and sculptures that go beyond the beauty of household vases and tiles. Check out the latest exhibit Dead Nuts: A Search for the Ultimate Machined Object, featuring objects created by makers.

And finally, we strongly suggest hitting up the Oakland Museum of California along Lake Merritt. In addition to an ongoing feature on food growth in Oakland, the museum’s current exhibit, Pushing West: The Photography of Andrew J. Russell, shouldn’t be missed.

“Travel back in time through Andrew J. Russell’s epic photography of the Transcontinental Railroad’s western expansion, completed 150 years ago in 1869. Though commissioned to document the railroad and its successful development, Russell’s photography reveals the tensions between the economic and technological advances and the Railroad’s significant impact on western lands and Native peoples. His powerful imagery highlights the majesty of the landscape with locomotive engines set amongst vast plains and colossal mountain ranges, captured through Russell’s remarkable technique using the collodion photographic process in remote locations.”

The retrospective runs until September 2.