Wikimedia Commons · Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) · Public domainThe de Young's civic record centers on rebuilding the museum in Golden Gate Park. A 2000 draft environmental impact report and 2001 revisions cover the project to demolish and reconstruct the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and its Education Tower. A 1997 site-selection study weighs a Golden Gate Park versus a downtown location, and a 1997 analysis studies the museum's visitorship and fiscal benefit. Fine Arts Museums board minutes from 2000 and 2004 track the "My de Young" fundraising campaign and resolutions naming donor galleries, while a 1970–71 annual report records a van Gogh exhibition at the de Young seen by over 400,000 people. The museum is operated by the Fine Arts Museums, whose FY2025 budget line totaled about $24M.
City Facilities registry · parcel 1700001 · Supervisor District 7
Construction permits on this parcel
- Erect museum & research building 3 stories, 2 basements2005 · complete$130.0M
- To erect 2 story museum & 9 story tower2002 · complete$105.0M
- 2 stories of underground parking space2003 · complete$35.0M
- Erect an one story type 5 construction recreation and office2019 · complete$17.0M
- To erect 1 story nursery w/ green house and a3 assembly area in golden gate park.2013 · cancelled$5.5M
- Install shoring for excavation, excavate and stock spoils, compact for new building, cut foundation2005 · complete$4.0M
Figures come from different city ledgers (voter bonds, contracts, permits) and are not additive — a bond fund pays the contracts for the same job. Sources: SF GO Bond program, vendor vouchers, building permits (DataSF).
Operated by the Fine Arts Museums — department budget $23.6M, 206 staff citywide (FY2025), not this place’s own.
The 7 documents behind the summary above, held at the Internet Archive — Democracy’s Library plus IA’s San Francisco Public Library partnership scans. Every link opens the scanned page with the match highlighted.
- New de Young Museum : revisions to final environmental impact report · 2001 ↗
2001 revisions to the final EIR for the New M.H. de Young Museum, addressing the reduced height of the Education Tower and the shadow and visual analyses.
San Francisco (Calif.). Planning DeptInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans - New deYoung [sic] Museum : draft environmental impact report · 2000 ↗
The 2000 draft EIR for the project to demolish and reconstruct the de Young in Golden Gate Park, removing about 230,000 sq ft of existing buildings.
San Francisco (Calif.). Planning DeptInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
- Minutes and Agendas ↗
Fine Arts Museums Board of Trustees resolutions honoring donors and naming galleries within the New de Young Museum.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Board of TrusteesInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans - Minutes ↗
COFAM Executive Committee minutes on the "My de Young" public campaign to build the new museum and a lease for a temporary education site while the de Young is closed.
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (San Francisco, Calif.). Board of Trustees. Executive CommitteeInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
- Annual report ↗
The 1970–71 annual report records the de Young's van Gogh exhibition, seen by over 400,000, and gifts received by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum.
Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
- M.H. de Young Memorial Museum : visitorship, fiscal benefit and economic impact analysis · 1997 ↗
A 1997 Sedway Group study of the de Young's visitorship, fiscal benefit and economic impact, comparing its park site with a downtown location.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,Sedway Group (Firm)Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
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- M.H. de Young Memorial Museum : site selection study · 1997 ↗
A 1997 site-selection study setting out the de Young's urban-building concept and its gallery program in square feet.
Sedway Consulting (Firm),Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,ROMA Design GroupInternet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
City budget & payments: SF Controller open data (budget, vouchers, contracts) · Historical documents: Internet Archive — SFPL partnership scans + Democracy's Library
