San Francisco
Field Trips

The Randall Museum is a museum of science, nature and the arts as well as a San Francisco Recreation and Park Department community learning center.  Visitors explore STEM, nature, and the arts through engaging exhibits, activities, and classes.

The Cable Car Museum contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system. The Museums houses a collection of historic cable cars, photographs, mechanical displays.

The San Francisco Fire Department Fire Museum & Safety Learning Center houses one of the largest collections of historic fire department memorabilia on the west coast. This small, yet important SF museum is run by volunteers.

Located in the Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhood, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park offers visitors the sights, sounds, smells and stories of Pacific Coast maritime history.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art. The Museum’s collection includes painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts.

The San Francisco Railway Museum celebrates San Francisco’s rail transit history, focused on exploring the positive impacts streetcars and cable cars have made on the quality of urban life in this great city.

San Francisco Zoo is home to more than 2,000 exotic, endangered, and rescued animals in 100 acres of majestic and peaceful gardens.

The mission of the National Liberty Ship Memorial is to restore, promote and operate the Liberty Ship, SS Jeremiah O’Brien, as a living museum.

The Beats were a collective of writers, artists, and thinkers in 1950s San Francisco. The Beat Museum is dedicated to carrying on the Beat’s legacy and being a resource on how one person’s perspective can have meaning to many.

The Contemporary Jewish Museum makes the diversity of the new perspectives where Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas thrive through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

The USS Pampanito (SS-383) is a restored World War II diesel-electric powered submarine. Located at Historic Pier 45, in the heart of Fisherman’s Wharf, Pampanito is both a museum and a memorial to those who served in the “silent service.”