Two museums comprise the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Legion is particularly known for an extensive collection of bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, including The Thinker, the Age of Bronze, John the Baptist, and The Three Shades. The M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco's oldest public museum, is located in Golden Gate Park and dates to the 1894 Midwinter Exposition.
Recent acquisitions focus on paintings and sculpture by contemporary Bay Area artists.
The de Young Museum also maintains a permanent exhibition for children, Gallery One, the only on-going installation of its kind in the United States. Major benefactors of the de Young Museum include Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, who gave their collection of American paintings to this Pacific Rim venue, and Mr. and Mrs. H. McCoy Jones, who assembled one of the world's foremost collections of tribal weavings. The American Art Study Center at the de Young, endowed by Mrs. Ednah Root, serves a large academic community and is linked to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. The museum is free on the second Wednesday of the month.