Spreckels Temple of Music, Classical bandshell in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, United States

The Spreckels Temple of Music is a bandshell in the Music Concourse of Golden Gate Park, designed by the firm Reid & Reid and completed in 1900. Its Italian Renaissance shell rises 70 feet, is clad in Colusa sandstone, and has a coffered interior that reflects sound. The platform is 45 feet wide and holds 100 musicians; two reliefs by Robert Ingersoll Aitken, one holding a lyre and one a trumpet, flank the stage.

The Spreckels Temple of Music was the third bandstand in Golden Gate Park, after structures of 1882 and 1888. Adolph B. Spreckels persuaded his father, sugar magnate Claus Spreckels, to fund it; Claus gave $75,000 of the $78,810 cost. Dedicated on Admission Day, September 9, 1900, it was badly damaged in the 1906 earthquake, and after Loma Prieta, FEMA and the Office of Emergency Services spent $3.1 million on seismic upgrades.

The two relief sculptures flanking the shell are by Robert Ingersoll Aitken; the left figure holds a lyre, the right one a trumpet. Each May 3 the pavilion hosts celebrations of the Polish Constitution of 1791, a tradition that has continued for years.

The bandshell stands in the Music Concourse, the sunken plaza between the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, reached on foot through Golden Gate Park. Concerts draw crowds of 10,000 to 20,000, so arrive early to claim space on the surrounding pavement and lawns. The open plaza offers no shelter from rain, wind or fog.

In December 2021 the nonprofit Illuminate the Arts installed "Lift Every Voice", four-foot bronze-coated letters lit atop the bandshell, inspired by the song known as the Black National Anthem and written by James Weldon Johnson. Approved for two years, the exhibit was extended five more years in 2023.