Though the Mechanics’ Institute is currently closed due to the region wide response to the coronavirus we are conducting tours virtually!

The Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco was founded at the end of 1854 with four books and a mission to start an organization to serve the vocational and social needs of the city’s mechanics, artisans, and industrialists. Within a few years the Institute was offering classes in mechanical drawing, industrial design, electrical science, and applied mathematics; had started a chess club and had acquired a magnificent library that slaked San Francisco’s voracious appetite for technical and pleasurable reading material.

Join us at lunchtime and take a Zoom tour of John DeMerritt’s studio in Emeryville, CA.