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Engines and large winding wheels driving the San Francisco cable car cables in the Washington/Mason powerhouse

San Francisco Cable Car Museum · Nob Hill

The Powerhouse: Winding Machinery and Sheave Room

Now showingPermanent collection·Free

Watch the live engines and 14-foot winding wheels that pull every cable car, then head below Washington & Mason to see the cables arrive through the sheave vault.

Exhibition website

Also at San Francisco Cable Car Museum

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Black Cat Power flag by Dorian Reid

Calling All Cats!

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

Ceramic work from After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora

After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

Work by Dewey Crumpler, Sonic Lineages

Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

All exhibitions in San Francisco this month Coming up in November

Nearby

Brick entrance of the former Chinatown YWCA at 965 Clay Street, with green-tiled Chinese-style roof and YWCA sign, now the CHSA museum

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum

Local History3 min walk
Street entrance of the Museum of the African Diaspora at 685 Mission Street, San Francisco

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

Art15 min walk
Exterior of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts galleries building seen from Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

Art16 min walk
SFMOMA seen from Yerba Buena Gardens: Mario Botta's striped brick building fronted by Snøhetta's white rippled expansion

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Design16 min walk

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