Legion of Honor: Entry Ticket

Perched above Lincoln Park with views out to the Pacific, the Legion of Honor is one of San Francisco's principal fine arts museums. This entry ticket gives you access to collections that range across ancient art, European painting and sculpture, and one of the largest graphic arts collections in the world. Works by Picasso, Renoir and El Greco feature among the highlights, alongside pieces spanning centuries and continents.

The museum's building itself is part of the draw, a Beaux-Arts structure set within a park-like coastal setting on the western edge of the city. Inside, galleries are arranged so you can move through different periods and styles of art at your own pace, from classical antiquity through to European masterworks.

This is a self-guided visit: once inside, you're free to explore the galleries in whatever order and at whatever pace suits you, spending as long as you like in front of the pieces that interest you most.

Once inside the Legion of Honor, you'll move through a series of galleries organized around different periods and regions, from ancient artifacts to European paintings and sculpture. The museum's graphic arts holdings, drawings, prints and works on paper, are a particular strength worth seeking out, alongside standout paintings by artists like Renoir and El Greco.

There's no set route or guide involved with this entry ticket, so you can wander freely, linger in the rooms that catch your attention, and skip through others. Many visitors also spend time in the surrounding Lincoln Park grounds before or after their museum visit, taking advantage of the site's coastal position overlooking the Pacific.