Super Bowl City madness is almost halfway through. If you're sticking around SoMa through the weekend, there are plenty of festivities to help you dive into the football spirit — or completely ignore it.

But first, here's a bit more news from around the neighborhood.

SFMOMA Announces Inaugural Exhibitions

If you haven't already, mark your calendars: The expanded SFMOMA debuts Saturday, May 14th, 2016. With three times more exhibition space spread over seven floors, you'll want to plan your attack. And now that the full lineup of inaugural exhibitions is live on the museum's website, it's time to get started.

Here are a few of the highlights:

• Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art — Features the work of American pop and minimal artists from the 1960s and beyond.
• California and the West — An exhibition exploring the "wild nature as a spiritual resource" as the landscape and photographic techniques evolved.
• Model Behavior — A look at the many sketches and models Snøhetta architects created while devising the expanded SFMOMA.

Yerba Buena Museums: "Come For the Super Bowl, Stay For The Culture"

The photo "Market Street Walk" from the California Historical Society's exhibition 'Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966–1971'.

Speaking of Yerba Buena's cultural institutions, it seems as though street and lane closures surrounding the ticketed NFL Experience at Moscone Center haven't been easy on SoMa's many museums.

At the monthly Yerba Buena Alliance meeting yesterday, representatives from a number of major South of Market cultural institutions reported dips in attendance since Super Bowl City preparation began. One museum's community outreach assistant, who asked to remain anonymous in our report, said her organization has received roughly three patrons a day this week, despite launching a brand new exhibit.

But there was also consensus that there's no need to avoid the area entirely, especially if you're traveling on foot or by public. And there's a ton going on this weekend, including...

• The California Historical Society recently launched an exhibition exploring the experimental environmental-awareness workshops held in the summer of '66 around Northern California by renowned architect Lawrence Halprin and dance pioneer Anna Halprin.
• Just last week, the Children's Creativity Museum rolled out an exhibition all about games. And they're hosting two live spoken-word performances tomorrow afternoon.
• MoAD has a new exhibition featuring images of the global slave trade.
• And the area's newest destination, the American Bookbinders Museum, is now open for tours on Saturdays. Plus they've put together a handy guide to getting to their relatively new museum, which is located within the NFL's car-restricted zone on Folsom St., this weekend.

Hotel Utah Goes Buck Wild With Wild Game Month

Finally, carnivores looking to munch on something a little more exotic than buffalo chicken wings this Super Bowl Sunday may want to head down to The Hotel Utah Saloon. All month long, the 100-plus-year-old South of Market institution at Fourth and Bryant is serving dishes of wild game. 

This week's delicacies are elk burgers and venison medallions. The next few weeks get even wilder with kangaroo burgers, gator bites, wild boar shoulder and more ...

Here are a few more events going down around the neighborhood this weekend:

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