More “Museums on Us”. Our objective was The Art of Instruction:

Beautiful, strange, and not always as helpful as they intend to be, these books offer an intriguing glimpse into an overlooked genre. Since the invention of the printing press, instructional books have been published on every subject imaginable.

I somehow misread the websites, and we ended up at the wrong museum: the de Young museum in Golden Gate Park. It wasn’t a total loss; it was a nice stroll through the park, there is a nine-story observation tower from which one can take in views of the city, and the music concourse is right next door:

After this, we went to the Palace of the Legion of Honor to find our target exhibition (we’ve been here before!). Unfortunately, the “exhibition” was just one small room on the basement level across the hall from the coat-check room, a small collection of about 30 opened books; it was a huge (small?) disappointment.