Gregangelo Museum
in San Francisco, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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The Gregangelo Museum is a Mediterranean A-Frame style house originally built in the early 1920s in the St. Francis Wood district of San Francisco. The house was converted into an art project during the 1980s, and in the 2000s it made its way into multiple entertainment magazines and entertainment sections of newspapers. Though most of the twenty-two rooms in the house have been significantly remodeled, the original 1920's architecture was intentionally salvaged. The founder, Gregangelo Herrera, owns Gregangelo’s Velocity Circus/Arts and Entertainment, a circus troupe and arts and entertainment company which uses the Gregangelo Museum as a company headquarters.The Gregangelo Museum was dubbed one of a few “home strange homes” by HGTV in 2012, and has been cited in interior design books, television networks, and entertainment blogs. Mosaic, Egyptian and Middle Eastern themed installations, and paintings are some of the main features of the museum. The Gregangelo Museum generates its revenue by offering tours of the home to the general public. The tour starts outside of the house, and gradually makes its way up onto the second floor. On the second floor is a hidden second half of the museum, which can only be toured through crawl spaces.
The Gregangelo Museum is a storyboard to the Velocity Circus shows. Each room is described as an entirely different universe by those who visit the home (Bold italic). Each room is also called a “portal”, resonating for many as a sort of C. S. Lewis novel reanimated. The philosophy of the house follows that each portal will bring visitors into a different existence, universe, and head-space. The house invites existentialism; as one blogger wrote, Gregangelo wished the secrets of the universe could be revealed.
The Gregangelo Museum’s mosaic was described by Lockvot as unprecedented and untraditional. The house’s decor mixes the profane with the spiritual. Artist True made most of the mosaic in the house, a mix of the bubbles, swirling galaxies, and colorful particles. Gregangelo Herrera uses the projects in the house to employ velocity circus artists when they are not training for a show. The purpose of the house is not to be viewed as an end product of years of artistry, but as the artist’s journey. As artists grow in their expertise and profession, the house reflects that change. The Gregangelo Museum does not intend to capture a specific moment in history or one area of art, but rather of culmination of artistic experiences.
