If you’re planning on heading to San Francisco this winter check out the latest edition of “What’s New in San Francisco” which is now available at http://www.sanfrancisco.travel/media/Winter-2012-Whats-New-in-San-Francisco.html

Highlights include:

Events:

• San Francisco Travel Association Preps for Holidays with 49 Hours of SF: Holidays Website
• San Francisco’s Frisky Past Comes to Life in Boomtown: The Barbary Coast at Conservatory of Flowers Railway Exhibition Nov. 16, 2012-April 14, 2013Navy Claims Post-Season Berth at Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl Scheduled for Dec. 29, 2012 at AT&T Park
• World’s Largest Rare Book Fair Returns to San Francisco Feb. 15-17, 2013
• Route to Change in 2013 for Annual Chinese New Year Parade Ushering in Year of the Snake on Feb. 23, 2013
• The Bay Lights, World’s Largest LED Sculpture, Celebrates 75^th Anniversary of Bay Bridge
• World Baseball Classic Semi-Finals and Finals Headed for San Francisco’s AT&T Park March 17-19, 2013
• Rock ‘n’ Roll San Francisco Half Marathon set for April 7, 2013; Race Course to Run across the Golden Gate Bridge

Attractions:

• PIER 39 Opens 7D Experience, First of Its Kind in North America
• CityPASS Offers Visitors Significant Savings
• The Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf Brings “Emperor Norton”
• Theatre Bay Area Expands Services at Union Square TIX Booth and at TixBayArea.com

Performing Arts:

• Disney’s The Lion King Returns to SHN Orpheum Theatre through Jan. 13, 2013
• SHN Upcoming Shows Include The Book of Mormon, Anything Goes, Wicked , Jersey Boys, and Mary Poppins
• New SFJAZZ Center Opens on Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan. 21, 2013
• 42^nd Street Moon Continues 20^th Anniversary Season through May 19, 2013

Museums:

• San Francisco’s Exploratorium Announces Opening Day for Vanguard Museum
• Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) Moves to San Francisco’s Dogpatch Neighborhood in Early 2013
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Offer an Eclectic Exhibition Season
• Asian Art Museum Prepares for America’s Cup with Special Exhibition June 28-Sept. 22, 2013
• Contemporary Jewish Museum Showcases New York’s Photo League and Art of Ezra Jack Keats
• Desert Jewels from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection Bedazzles
• I See Beauty in this Life: A Photographer Looks at 100 Years of Rural California at California Historical Society through March 24, 2013
• The Walt Disney Family Museum Celebrates 75^th Anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Nov. 15, 2012-April 14, 2013
• China’s Terracotta Warriors Return to San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Feb. 22-May 27, 2013
• SFMOMA Announces Extensive Off-Site Programming Beginning Summer 2013
• San Francisco’s Polk Street New Home of Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum