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This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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]
Los Angeles Harbor Region: Local history [16] Huntington Library: San Marino: San Gabriel Valley: Multiple: Library, art collection, historic Beaux-Art mansion and botanical gardens Hurst Ranch Historical Center West Covina: San Gabriel Valley: Agriculture: website, early 20th century ranch and farm with equipment, tools International Printing ...
Children's Discovery Museum of North San Diego County, Carlsbad, closed in 2006 [31] Copia, Napa, closed in 2008; Exotic World Burlesque Museum, moved from Helendale to Las Vegas, Nevada; Forrest Ackerman's Sci-Fi Mansion, Hollywood, science fiction memorabilia, closed in 2003, information; Fort Roosevelt Natural Science and History Museum ...
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Eventually, the museum renamed itself again, becoming The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. In 2003, the museum began a campaign to transform its exhibits and visitor experience. The museum reopened its seismically retrofitted renovated 1913 rotunda, along with the new "Age of Mammals" exhibition [7] in 2010. Its Dinosaur Hall ...
Children's Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2000; Hollywood Erotic Museum, closed in 2006; Sports Museum of Los Angeles, closed in 2016 [5] VIVA Art Center – Valley Institute of Visual Art, closed in 2011 [6] [7] [8] Wells Fargo History Museum (Los Angeles), closed in 2020 [9]
It is the only natural history museum in the California State Park system. [1] From 1993 through 2002, the museum was remodeled in a three-phase modernization project, with exhibits by Exhibitgroup Giltspur, which has also created exhibits for the Smithsonian and J. Paul Getty museums.