We Appreciate Your Year-End Gift!

The San Francisco Historical Society has grown impressively in 2025, thanks to your generosity. As the year draws to a close, we hope you'll consider making a Giving Tuesday donation to help us ring in a new year of even greater impact!

The San Francisco Historical Society preserves, presents and promotes the city’s history, arts and culture for the past, present and future. We do this through our Museum of San Francisco, publications (Panorama and The Argonaut), historical walking tours, monthly History Live! presentations, and numerous educational programs for young people which includes City Lab for Kids opening 2026.

Our museum exhibits feature intriguing artifacts and stories from San Francisco’s history. The museum is located at 608 Commercial Street in downtown San Francisco, on the site of the first Branch Mint in the West.

The San Francisco Historical Society was founded by renowned San Francisco historian Charles Fracchia in 1988. In 2006 the administration of Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. granted the stewardship of the Old Mint at Fifth and Mission Streets to SFHS. That stewardship lasted for ten years. In 2019 SFHS moved into its permanent home at 608 Commercial Street in the heart of San Francisco’s historic core. The SFHS Museum is the new center for administration, exhibits, presentations, and educational programs, and is also available as a venue for events.

The San Francisco Historical Society is a registered 503(c) nonprofit with tax id#68-010488.

www.SFHistory.org

Giving Tuesday Campaign for the San Francisco Historical Society: We Appreciate Your Support!

By THE SAN FRANCISCO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Giving Tuesday Campaign for the San Francisco Historical Society: We Appreciate Your Support!

Your generous gift sustains the San Francisco Historical Society, our education programs, and the Museum of San Francisco. We couldn’t do it without YOU!