On May 14, 2016, following a three-year-long closure, the museum re-opened to the public. The approximately expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets."At San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, a New Frontier for Photography""Inside the New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art" The expanded building includes seven levels dedicated to art and public programming, and three floors housing enhanced support space for the museum's operations. It offers approximately of indoor and outdoor gallery space, as well as nearly of art-filled free-access public space, more than doubling SFMOMA's previous capacity for the presentation of art and providing almost six times as much public space as the pre-expansion building. The soaring "silo" with its Oculus Bridge remained, but the Botta staircase was removed.
On May 14 2016 following a three-year-long closure the museum re-opened to the public The approximately expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets"At San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art a New Frontier for Photography""Inside the New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art" The expanded building includes seven levels dedicated to art and public programming and three floors housing enhanced support space for the museum's operations It offers approximately of indoor and outdoor gallery space as well as nearly of art-filled free-access public space more than doubling SFMOMA's previous capacity for the presentation of art and providing almost six times as much public space as the pre-expansion building The soaring "silo" with its Oculus Bridge remained but the Botta staircase was removed