The Beat Museum (North Beach)

The Beat Museum at 540 Broadway in North Beach collects and exhibits memorabilia, manuscripts, and ephemera related to the Beat Generation. Its displays include materials associated with writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, and the institution promotes public programs, readings, and events tied to Beat literature. The museum is a neighborhood cultural attraction that interprets North Beach's mid-20th-century literary history.