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Jean Stern. Born. (1946-03-28) March 28, 1946 (age 78) Casablanca, Morocco. Occupation (s) Executive Director, The Irvine Museum (1992 - Present) Jean Stern (born March 28, 1946), Director Emeritus of The Irvine Museum is an art historian and retired museum director who specializes in paintings of the California Impressionist period (1890-1930).
Bowers Museum. Santa Ana. Multiple. Orange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history. Bradford House. Placentia. Historic house. Operated by the Placentia Founders Society, furnished in 1900-1920s style.
The San Diego Natural History Museum is a museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It was founded in 1874 as the San Diego Society of Natural History. It is the second oldest scientific institution west of the Mississippi and the oldest in Southern California. The present location of the museum was dedicated on January 14, 1933.
The Center's solar cube A donated DCSS rocket and RL 10B-2 engine outside the Center. In 1984, the Boards of the Exploratory Learning Center (now the Heritage Museum of Orange County) and the Experience Center joined to form the Discovery Museum of Orange County with the dual goals of teaching children what life was like in Orange County in the 1900s and creating a world-class science center.
The University of California, Irvine Arboretum (UCI Arboretum or UC Irvine Arboretum) is a 12.5 acres (5.1 ha) botanical garden and arboretum, part of the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. [1] It is located north of the main UCI campus, on Campus Drive in Irvine, [2] near the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary and the Upper ...
The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and science museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the University of Southern California. The museum includes many exhibits of aircraft and spacecraft, including Space Shuttle Endeavor ...
The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. [3] The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research. [4]
The Irvine Ranch Natural Landmarks (also known collectively as Irvine Ranch Open Space[1]) are a collection of protected areas in Orange County, California in and around Irvine. They encompass almost 50,000 acres (20,000 ha) of land which was once a part of the Irvine Ranch owned by the Irvine Company. Almost 40,000 acres (16,000 ha) of the ...