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San Francisco Cable Car Museum

About San Francisco Cable Car Museum

The Cable Car Museum is a free museum in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Located at 1201 Mason Street, it contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum.

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History museum
Founded
1853

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Photos of San Francisco Cable Car Museum

  1. San Francisco Cable Car Museum, San Francisco01San FranciscoJaredzimmerman (WMF) · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. SF CCM - Wiley (birdcage) traffic signal02SF CCM - Wiley (birdcage) traffic signalFietsbel · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. A garage for street cable cars, in San Francisco -a03A garage for street cable cars, in San Francisco -aBrendan Riley from Chicago, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
  4. Grip of a cable car, jaws closed (at the SF Cable Car Museum)04Grip of a cable car, jaws closed (at the SF Cable Car Museum)HaeB · CC BY-SA 3.0
  5. Cable car détail05Cable car détailBachelot Pierre J-P · CC BY-SA 3.0
  6. Historic cable car tokens from the San Francisco Cable car museum06Historic cable car tokens from the San Francisco Cable car museumJaredzimmerman (WMF) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of San Francisco Cable Car Museum; the closest, Marin Womens Hall of Fame, is practically next door.