Yerba Buena Lane
I took off from work early and went down to the Metreon for a movie. While waiting for the film to start, I wandered across Mission St. and found Yerba Buena Lane, a pedestrian walk that extends between Market and Mission Streets behind the Jukebox Marriott.
There I found the new Jewish Museum of San Francisco under construction, hard by the hundred-year-old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.
Also on the lane is a brand new museum, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, which isn’t even open yet (though the gift shop is).
Is this a joke? The Museum of Craft and Folk Art has been open on Yerba Buena Lane for at least a year, right?
Well, if it has been, then shame on me. But when I looked through their doorway on Friday, I saw a small gift shop and a large area behind it cordoned off where construction seemed to be taking place. Either they have moved into a new space, or what I thought was “construction” was merely the dust rising from a new exhibit being put together.
The “Beats per Minute” exhibit opens today. Info is on the website. The museum has been there for a while. In January, I saw an exhibit of art created by Japanese-Americans in the WWII internment camps.