On the first floor, with its large atrium lobby, are a 299-seat theater, an interactive Education Center, the museum shop, and Caff Museo.
Art galleries occupy the top four floors.
Selections from the permanent collection of art, sculpture, furniture, and photographs are displayed on an on-going basis along with changing special exhibits. Other major art museums include the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and Asian Art Museum, both in Golden Gate Park. The collection at the De Young includes a little bit of just about everything. In its permanent collection is an extensive American Art collection that is enhanced by its John D. Rockefeller III donation, seventeenth and eighteenth century Italian works, decorative arts, and traditional arts of the Americas, Oceania and Africa. The Asian Art Museum is housed in the west wing of the de Young.