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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 Bay Area Discovery Museum is a children's museum located in Sausalito, California inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1987. [1] [2] The museum is geared to children from 6 months to 10 years of age with different areas of the museum tailored to a specific ...
Children's Creativity Museum: San Francisco: California: No No Yes Yes Children's Discovery Museum [5] [6] Normal: Illinois: No Yes Yes Yes Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: San Jose: California: No Yes Yes No Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences: Rocky Mount: North Carolina: No No Yes Yes Children's Museum of Eau Claire [6] Eau ...
San Diego Computer Museum, holdings gifted to the San Diego State University Library, now web-based only; Treasure Island Museum, San Francisco, website, closed in 1997 but trying to reopen, interpreted the American experience in the Pacific as lived by the men and women of the U.S. sea services: the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
Stanley Ranch Museum: Garden Grove: Open air: Operated by the Garden Grove Historical Society, includes several historic buildings from the 1880s to early 1900s [3] Surfing Heritage and Culture Center: San Clemente: Sports [4] Susanna Bixby Bryant Museum and Botanic Garden: Yorba Linda: Local history: operated by the Yorba Linda Heritage Museum ...
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California.Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.
After the six U.S. tour locations were named, San Francisco citizens bombarded the Mayor's Office with inquiries as to why the tour was not coming there. As a result, museum trustees flew to Egypt to meet with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where they worked out a mutual agreement for a seventh stop. Profits after exhibition expenses resulted in ...
The "California Aerospace Museum" was also opened in 1984 adjacent to and operated by the California Museum of Science and Industry to coincide with the Summer Olympics. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It was also known as Aerospace Hall but also commonly known as the California Air and Space Museum/Gallery and the SKETCH Foundation Gallery, [ 15 ] and was the ...