Culture Reporter 

Sam Mondros

SFMOMA, the de Young, and the Asian Art Museum are among those to lose key federal grants.

Employees are pushing for better wages and transparency amid deficits and declining visitor numbers.

Monday’s event at the Exploratorium hopes to serve up celestial wonder to visitors along the Embarcadero’s Pier 15.

The biggest event for decades, the total solar eclipse crossing the country has the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in power mode. 

There won’t be another U.S. eclipse, spanning coast-to-coast, until 2045. 