SFMOMA has posted on-sale dates for "Between You and Me," the fall show built around BTS leader RM's personal art collection: members Aug. 4, general public Aug. 11, with an unlimited-visit "Encore Pass" also landing Aug. 11. The exhibit runs Oct. 3 to Feb. 7 on Floor 7.
When the doors open on the seventh floor of SFMOMA on Oct. 3, the crowd downtown will not look like a normal Friday at 151 Third Street. The museum's fall headliner, "Between You and Me," is built around the personal art collection of RM — Kim Nam-joon, the leader of BTS — and the city's box office is bracing accordingly. On Wednesday, the museum posted the dates fans have been waiting on, first reported by KRON4.
Members can reserve starting Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. Pacific. Everyone else waits until Tuesday, Aug. 11, same hour. That second date matters twice over: it's also when SFMOMA releases what it's calling the "Encore Pass," a ticket that lets a holder back into the show as many times as they want across its whole run, which closes Feb. 7, 2027. For a fandom that treats repeat visits as a sport, that pass is the quiet headline.
The pricing tells you who the museum expects. General admission runs $30; the exhibition carries a surcharge of $10 on weekdays and $12 on weekends and holidays, per SFMOMA's posted FAQ. Members skip the surcharge and get in free, and so does anyone 18 and under. Member previews run Oct. 1–3 before the public gets in.
This isn't a pop-star vanity wall. RM curated the roughly 200 works with two SFMOMA co-curators, América Castillo and Hyoeun Kim, hanging modern and contemporary Korean artists — Yun Hyong-keun, Park Rehyun, Kwon Okyon, Kim Yun Shin, To Sangbong, Chang Ucchin — in conversation with pieces from the museum's own holdings, including Kim Whanki. Many, SFMOMA says, have never been shown publicly in the U.S. Lead support comes from Randi and Bob Fisher, with Samsung Electronics and the Korea Foundation behind it; RM's label HYBE is a partner. The show lands the same year SFMOMA signed a partnership with Korea's national modern-art museum, MMCA, marking the 50th anniversary of the Seoul–San Francisco sister-city tie.
"My only hope is that this exhibition can be a small but sturdy bridge for many," RM said of the collection.
What a passerby on Third Street will notice this fall: the line.

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