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30 Jan
Will San Francisco sink before the next “big one”? Will N95 masks become cool? Climate change is reshaping our landscape and behaviors at a rapid pace. Join us as we explore how a city can focus its efforts to maintain the urban area in the face of rising sea levels, earthquakes, and regional fires, and what can we learn from the past about an unpredictable future.
30 Jan
30/01/2019    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco and professor of history at Princeton University, presents on San Francisco models and architectural model makers.
30 Jan
30/01/2019    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Historian Woody LaBounty discusses the purpose and creation of the San Francisco scale model built by the Works Progress Administration and subsequent Lake Merced neighborhood development.
31 Jan
Map viewing, Visitacion Valley History experts, and sharing of collective memories of the neighborhood.
02 Feb
02/02/2019    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
This bike tour has been postponed due to heavy rain forecasts and has been rescheduled for February 9th. See event details for the link to our February 9th posting. Thank you!
02 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
02 Feb
02/02/2019    
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Make your own California-shaped string art to take home. Children ages 5 & up.
02 Feb
02/02/2019 - 03/02/2019    
7:00 pm - 2:00 am
  Join us on February 2, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library, SFMOMA, and the French Consulate in San Francisco unite to present a [...]
05 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
05 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
06 Feb
Join us for a LEGO building party. Together, we will build a LEGO city inspired by the San Francisco Urban Model. Brick by brick, we will create urban blocks and neighborhoods and put them all together to make our own city!
06 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
08 Feb
"If you could make a map of the perfect Bernal Heights, what would it look like? Come with your best ideas, and we will have the materials for you to make an original map displaying your vision for an even better Bernal! Artwork will be put on display so patrons can vote for their favorite. Prizes will be awarded!"
08 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
09 Feb
09/02/2019    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019 Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so. Difficulty Level: Moderate
09 Feb
San Francisco is more than just a place—it is a collection of memories and experiences. Come to the library and help create a very special map—a map of our San Francisco memories— and share with our library community what San Francisco means to you.
09 Feb
09/02/2019    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Children's librarian will host a short storytime with books about San Francisco, the Mission District and the murals as a way to inspire children for the workshop with Precita Eyes. Mural will be on display in the children's room after the event.
10 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
12 Feb
Join us for a LEGO building party. Together, we will build a LEGO city inspired by the San Francisco Urban Model. Brick by brick, we will create urban blocks and neighborhoods and put them all together to make our own city!
12 Feb
12/02/2019    
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Learn about OpenStreetMap, the free open-source mapping platform that people anywhere can improve and edit. We'll hear about ways that OpenStreetMap is used and then sign up for an account and learn how to contribute to the map. In the second half of this workshop, we'll use OpenStreetMap to help a humanitarian effort. Presented by volunteers from Mapbox.
12 Feb
What do you like about your neighborhood? What would you like to add to it? Come make a map with your own ideas. You’ll have paint, glitter, markers, fabric and more! Tell us your thoughts. Do you like to shop with your family on Mission Street? What do you see when you walk to school? There was an old movie theater on Mission Street, if it were still there, what movies would you like to see? Do you like music? Would you like to listen to it in McLaren Park? How do you like to dance? Can you sing a song of you? Would you like to float a boat in McNab Lake? How does a parade of your neighborhood look? You can add your ideas to an even bigger map and take your picture in front of the whole thing.
13 Feb
In this conversation, speakers from diverse fields and backgrounds will discuss how the landscape of San Francisco has changed as the city has expanded, and how communities have been impacted by complex environmental factors. With increased demand for housing, contested and polluted areas have been opened up to more development. What will this mean for those who currently live, work, and play in those neighborhoods, or for those who might move there in the future?
13 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
14 Feb
Map viewing, Visitacion Valley History experts, and sharing of collective memories of the neighborhood.
16 Feb
Join San Francisco City Guides volunteer Rob Spoor on a Mission Bay local history presentation, immediately followed by a walking tour of the neighborhood.
16 Feb
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019 Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so. Difficulty Level: High
16 Feb
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will host a storytelling booth at the Linda Brooks-Burton Branch library. Residents of and community members with a meaningful connection to the Bayview are invited to view the San Francisco city model on display at the library and contribute their oral histories to a collective narrative of the past, present, and future of the neighborhood.
19 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
19 Feb
Jim Van Buskirk presents the history of Eureka Valley, from its early days as Finn Town to current day Castro, and discusses the San Francisco Model throughout.
19 Feb
19/02/2019    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Woody LaBounty will discuss the massive 3-D WPA-built model of San Francisco. The model provides a fascinating historical viewpoint both familiar and alien when contrasted with the Outer Richmond of today.
20 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
20 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
20 Feb
Chris Carlsson, of the Mission Creek Conservancy, will present photos and maps illustrating Mission Bay's long history. Politics, landscapes, habitat restoration, and more!
21 Feb
Join us for a LEGO building party. Together, we will build a LEGO city inspired by the San Francisco Urban Model. Brick by brick, we will create urban blocks and neighborhoods and put them all together to make our own city!
21 Feb
21/02/2019    
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Historian Evelyn Rose, Project Director and Founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project will discuss rediscovery of the significant histories that helped shape Glen Park and the surrounding area.
21 Feb
San Francisco is both a City of bold vision that can lead a nation in a new direction and a City that anchors itself firmly in history. Forces for change and preservation push and pull through economic cycles to build the physical City that we see today. In large parts of the city, the hills and humanity are unchanged from the 1938 model. In the Downtown and SoMa neighborhoods, new hills rise from building clusters. When San Francisco allows growth, it does so with demands for public benefits such affordable housing, childcare, open space, art and metering. Join the city planners who convened these public discussions around downtown growth from 1970’s to today, as they explore the ideas, people and power associated with growth in the City by the Bay.
22 Feb
This 30-minute guided tour transports you to Downtown San Francisco circa 1938, without ever leaving the museum.
23 Feb
Learn how to conduct genealogical research. This is a hands-on session for individuals who have taken the genealogy class and need assistance in their family research. Bring your work and documents.
23 Feb
23/02/2019    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Department of Memory Bicycle Tours: “Take Part” in San Francisco 1938-2019 Led by Shaping San Francisco, all rides visit at least a half dozen branch libraries and their displays of the San Francisco Model. To reach these various parts of the City requires crossing ridges and valleys—sometimes more steep, sometimes less so. Difficulty Level: Moderate
23 Feb
Urban areas do not grow equitably, and San Francisco is no stranger to disturbing and unjust displacements and migrations. Speakers who live in and work with the Western Addition, Potrero Hill, and Visitacion Valley discuss the impact of displacement and gentrification on their neighborhoods and share perspectives on what the city as a whole can learn from their plight/flight.
24 Feb
24/02/2019    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Peter Linenthal and Abby Johnston of the Potrero Hill Archives Project as they share historic maps of Potrero Hill and Dogpatch. This program will highlight the WPA era model of San Francisco, a portion of which will be hosted at the Potrero Library through March 2019.
25 Feb
While enormous federal feats like the Works Progress Administration or the Public Library System may seem utopic in 2019, they were the results of mass organization. What can we learn from the New Deal and from the grassroots progressive movements that have historically thrived in San Francisco? Where is this work being done today by activist groups, labor unions, and small business organizations? What can we look to in San Francisco’s past to inform the future and build better communities?
26 Feb
26/02/2019    
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
San Francisco is more than just a place—it is a collection of memories and experiences. Come to the library and help create a very special map—a map of our San Francisco memories— and share with our library community what San Francisco means to you.
26 Feb
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
27 Feb
27/02/2019    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
During the New Deal, the San Francisco Planning Department commissioned a large-scale model of the city, complete with buildings, trees and roads. The model was kept in crates for decades, like a time capsule of San Francisco in the late 1930s. The model is filled with detail, but how can we evaluate it as a historical record? Luckily, we have data and tools we can use to compare the model to the living city. During this program, we will use 1938 aerial photographs of The Haight, The Panhandle and Alamo Square to analyze the model for completeness, accuracy and detail. Then, using modern satellite imagery, we will investigate how the city has changed over the past 80 years.
27 Feb
Some of our bridges are golden, some are gray, but perhaps the most interesting ones are invisible. San Francisco’s infrastructures, both physical and social, enable and inhibit movement across and around the city. How are the Presidio and Bayview-Hunters Point connected? Why do some people feel uncomfortable crossing Van Ness Avenue? Join us as we explore the invisible connections and barriers created by people, as well as geography.
28 Feb
Map viewing, Visitacion Valley History experts, and sharing of collective memories of the neighborhood.
01 Mar
This 30-minute guided tour transports you to Downtown San Francisco circa 1938, without ever leaving the museum.
01 Mar
01/03/2019    
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Join us for a freestyle watercolor painting event without an instructor. All materials will be provided. All levels of experience welcome. Limited space. Please call (415)355-5660 to register.
01 Mar
01/03/2019    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Create, color, and fold your own paper house that will glow from the inside using LED lights.
02 Mar
"The Fillmore (1999), an Emmy-winning PBS documentary, tells the dramatic story -- the rise and fall (and rise again?) of San Francisco's premier Black community, as it faced urban renewal. The film chronicles neighborhood history, including the 1906 earthquake, the World War II removal of Japanese citizens, & the tumultuous 1960's. A discussion with film maker Peter L. Stein to follow.
02 Mar
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
03 Mar
How might a 3-D map change the way you look at where you live? Join us in conversation while taking a bird’s-eye view of your neighborhood. Gather around a segment of the 1938 scale model of San Francisco with fellow residents and special guests, and reflect on the city’s past and explore new possibilities for its future.
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