YBCA Open Hours & Exhibitions Today

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is open on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 701 Mission Street in San Francisco, with free admission during the day and extended Wednesday hours, according to YBCA’s website. The nonprofit arts center lists Wednesday hours of 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., while third-party event listings on SF Station and Funcheap show the free museum-day window as 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. YBCA’s current exhibitions include “Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night,” “Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements,” and “The Prince of Homburg: A Solo Exhibition by P. Staff,” all listed on the center’s exhibitions and home pages. The venue says it was founded in 1993 and presents contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement and public programs. (ybca.org) ### What can visitors see in the galleries today? YBCA lists three exhibitions currently on view in San Francisco on May 20. “Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night” runs from March 13 through August 23, 2026; “Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements” runs from March 13 through August 23, 2026; and “The Prince of Homburg: A Solo Exhibition by P. Staff” is listed on YBCA’s site as running from January 17 into June 2026. (ybca.org) “Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night” is Brackens’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area, YBCA says, and features 15 weavings created since 2020. The center says the works consider tenderness, migration and connections with the natural world. ### Are Wednesday hours different from the event listing? YBCA’s homepage says the center is open on Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ybca.org) Thursday through Sunday. SF Station’s May 20 listing describes a “Free Museum Day” at YBCA from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Funcheap carries the same daytime window for free admission. A March 26 YBCA press posting says the center announced extended evening hours and programming as part of “Free Wednesdays.” A separate YBCA event page for May 20 says galleries will remain open until 8 p.m. for that evening’s performance. (ybca.org) ### What is happening besides gallery admission? YBCA’s calendar lists a free art workshop, “Watercolor Affirmation Art,” on Wednesday, May 20, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Grand Lobby. (ybca.org) The same calendar lists a 6 p.m. performance by Willie Alexander III in Gallery 2. Willie Alexander III’s event page says the composer, singer and songwriter will perform live among the works in “Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night.” YBCA says the performance is part of its Free Wednesdays programming and includes a cash bar and free gallery admission. (ybca.org) ### What does YBCA say about the institution itself? YBCA says it opened to the public in 1993 and was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. (ybca.org) The organization says its programming spans exhibitions, performances, film, civic engagement and public life. The center’s press page shows recent institutional updates, including an April 30, 2026 announcement naming Essence Harden as senior curator and a March 26, 2026 announcement on extended Wednesday hours. (ybca.org) Those postings place the May 20 schedule within a broader 2026 programming rollout. ### Where should visitors check before going? YBCA’s calendar and event pages carry the most detailed schedule for May 20, including exhibition dates, workshop registration and the evening performance listing. (ybca.org) SF Station and Funcheap both list the daytime free-admission window at 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., while YBCA’s own site says Wednesday hours extend to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 20, includes the 2 p.m. workshop in the Grand Lobby and Willie Alexander III at 6 p.m. in Gallery 2, according to YBCA’s calendar. (ybca.org) YBCA’s homepage also lists its next public program after May 20 as “Dreams, OMENS, and Language,” scheduled for June 3, 2026, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (ybca.org)