Museum of Craft and Design

Mission

The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) makes creativity accessible to everyone.

The Museum of Craft and Design is the only museum in San Francisco devoted to craft and design. Founded in 2004, MCD showcases designers, makers and artists through an exciting and distinctive series of craft and design-focused exhibitions and public programs. As a non-collecting institution, the museum actively collaborates with artists, designers, museums and universities, as well as design venues and practitioners to create inspirational experiences in the world of craft and design for visitors of all ages.

Featured Fun

For San Francisco History Days 2020, MCD is presenting a library of past hands-on projects they produced for San Francisco History Days and History Play Dates with the California Historical Society in years past.

MCD has brought flexible and mobile crafts to San Francisco festivals, libraries, and other sites since the MakeArt program was founded in 2005. This initiative continues with the MCD@Home online project archive and MCD Mobile MakeArt–a new custom van expanding the reach and size of hands-on making by making creativity accessible to everyone.

See our our offering below to choose from multiple types of instruction in the form of PDFs, timelapses, and videos. Whether projects focus on Dogpatch’s industrial past, or the historic Old Mint, each was developed to highlight a particular time and place.

Activity 1. Salt Dough Coin Minting

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Activity 2. Tubbs Rope Lanyard

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Activity 3. Imagine Badges

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