Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Museum & Shop

North Beach & Chinatown


Tattooed ladies are the life's work of icon Lyle Tuttle, who inked women across seven continents – including Janis Joplin, Cher and Joan Baez. Since the maestro's retirement, his shop's become a working museum, with vintage photos and American traditional tattoos inked by his protégés. You're in good hands – Tuttle championed safe, sanitary tattooing practices with SF's health department.


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