Gregangelo Museum
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| Location | 225 San Leandro Way, San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Designated | June 21, 2024 |
| Reference no. | 318 |
The Gregangelo Museum is an ongoing compilation of installation art located in a Mediterranean-style house in the Balboa Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco. Originally built in the early 1920s, the house was converted into an art project during the 1980s by lifelong resident, Gregangelo Herrera.[1][2][3] Branded as an immersive, experiential art museum, the house boasts twenty-seven thematically different rooms, all of which have been significantly remodeled, though the original 1920s architecture was intentionally salvaged.
About
The museum was founded by Gregangelo Herrera, the artistic director of Velocity Circus, a circus troupe and arts and entertainment company which creates custom entertainment for public and private events.[3] The museum doubles as headquarters for Velocity Circus.
The Gregangelo Museum has been cited in interior design books, television networks, and editorial pages such as The Bold Italic[4] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[5] In 2012, The Gregangelo Museum was dubbed one of a few "Home Strange Homes" by HGTV[6] and has since been featured on Voltage TV's World's Weirdest Homes, and Netflix's Amazing Interiors.[7] The Gregangelo Museum was also featured in The Mercury News as one of the “12 coolest bay area things you didn’t know you could do”[8] as well as being included in Ruth Carlson’s book, Secret San Francisco: A Guide to the Weird, the Wonderful, and the Obscure.[9]
The Gregangelo Museum offers a series of guided tours, each structured around a particular theme. These tours are designed for small groups and vary in duration and focus.
Artist Laurel True made most of the mosaics in the house which have been described by author JoAnn Locktov as "unprecedented and untraditional."[10] The house's decor mixes the humorous with the spiritual. Gregangelo uses the projects in and around the house to employ visual artists when they are not training for a show.[3]
References
- ↑ "Best In-House Museum". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017.
- ↑ "The eccentric home of Gregangelo - This Forgotten Day in S.F." SFGate. January 12, 2016.
- 1 2 3 Costantinou, Marianne (May 18, 2005). "His Velocity Circus is so named for good reason -- its founder is a whirling dervish on and offstage". SFGate.
- ↑ "The Crazy Circus House in San Francisco". The Bold Italic, San Francisco. December 21, 2010.
- ↑ Spotswood, Beth (October 1, 2018). "Modest-looking city house opens door to magical world". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ HGTV: Home, Strange Home Series-Gregangelo Museum
- ↑ Keeling, Brock (2020-02-13). "Weird Homes Tour coming to Bay Area for the first time ever". Curbed SF. Archived from the original on June 24, 2020. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ↑ "12 coolest Bay Area things you didn't know you could do". The Mercury News. 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ↑ "How I See SF". San Francisco Travel. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ↑ Locktov, JoAnn (2007). Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments. Beverly: Quarry Books. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-61059-441-7.