Asian Art Museum director
to give talk as part of 'Museums on the Move' series
Emily Sano, director of
the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, will give a free
public lecture on "The New Asian Art Museum in San
Francisco's Civic Center" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 13, in Annenberg Auditorium.
The Asian Art museum on
San Francisco, one of the largest museums in the western
world devoted exclusively to Asian art, opened in 1966 as
a result of a gift to the City of San Francisco by Avery
Brundage. In December 1998, plans were approved to adapt
the former main public library into a new home for the
museum's permanent collection. Sano's lecture will focus
on the elaborate three-year project of rehabilitating and
adapting the library building to house the museum.
The lecture is the fifth
in a year-long series entitled "Museums on the Move:
The Bay Area Faces the Millennium," sponsored by the
Department of Art and Art History. The series focuses on
prominent Bay Area museums as the institutions prepare to
enter the 21st century. SR
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