Arts & Culture
San Francisco is rich with culture. Extensive support from local government, corporate and private patrons has made the City's galleries, museums, music halls and historical institutions respected throughout the world. In fact, today the arts comprise the fourth largest growth industry in the City. Attracting highly educated and talented workers to the region's labor force and feeding a range of creative industries, San Francisco's superlative artistic and cultural institutions are key to its booming innovation economy.
At the epicenter is the War Memorial Opera House, home to the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet—the largest and oldest ballet company in the U.S. Nearby, the Davies Symphony Hall houses the renowned San Francisco Symphony. The American Conservatory Theater's performance, education and outreach programs have garnered national acclaim. And perhaps most importantly, the area's rich avant-garde and impromptu scene—at festivals and bookshops, at poetry readings and street fairs, emanating from global bloggers and social networkers—have made the San Francisco Bay Area a cultural incubator for well over a century.
The links at left access detailed information about the region's legendary arts and culture.