Is there a Bay Area museum with a thing like Panorama of the City of NY?

March 14, 2023 7:50 AM

I could have sworn I got invited to an event at a place with the Bay Area laid out in miniature but now I can’t find it. Was it a one time thing or is this an exhibit somewhere in the bay?
posted by rileyray3000 to Grab Bag (5 answers total)

Could you be thinking of the Bay Model Visitors Center?
posted by Ms. Toad at 7:55 AM on March 14, 2023 [4 favorites]

Are you asking about a miniature version of the San Francisco Bay Area? If so, you might have visited the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
posted by zombiedance at 7:57 AM on March 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

While you're almost certainly thinking of the Bay Model per the responses above, there was a time where artist Liz Hickok was doing remarkable miniature installations of San Francisco made out of Jell-O, one of which was at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
posted by eschatfische at 8:15 AM on March 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

SF MOMA had an exhibit about the WPA model of San Francisco. You can see a digitized version online its pretty neat!
posted by ljesse at 8:47 AM on March 14, 2023

Each SF Library branch has the part that is local to it. More info here.
posted by A Blue Moon at 7:29 PM on March 14, 2023