Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery
Rotating contemporary art with performance and film in the mix, and the gardens right outside for when attention runs out.
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SoMa luxury hotel with family suites, connecting rooms, and kid-sized robes.
Modern art museum that is free for kids 18 and under, with a free education center on the second floor and hands-on activities in the Co-Lab.
Three floors of art and history off Yerba Buena Gardens. Compact, calm, and stronger with school-age kids than with toddlers.
Seven floors of modern and contemporary art, far more than a kid will finish; pick two floors and go. Tickets required, and strollers roll through fine.
The pizza chain's inventive pies, like the Thai chicken and the tostada pizza, with butter cake for dessert.
SoMa hotel with a kids' menu, suites with living space, and the children's museum next door.