The California Academy of Sciences should be on your list of places to visit in San Francisco! This must-see, all-encompassing experience houses a museum, aquarium, planetarium, and rainforest, all in one. Check multiple experiences off your itinerary with California Academy of Sciences tickets! Plan a visit and get California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco on TodayTix now.
The California Academy of Sciences draws 1.4 million visitors annually. The building houses 46 million specimens in an architectural masterpiece complete with a living roof. Designed by Renzo Piano, the Academy earned the highest rating from the U.S. Green Building Council and is the world’s largest Double Platinum building.
The mainstay exhibits — the natural history museum, planetarium, aquarium, and rainforest — share the spotlight with temporary exhibitions like the new exhibit “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs,” which will be on display at the Academy through January 21, 2024. Go to TodayTix now for your California Academy of Sciences tickets and watch science come to life before your very eyes!
The California Academy of Sciences is the first scientific academy founded west of the Atlantic seaboard. Established in 1853, the Academy opened the first public museum in California to share its research with the public. The building houses the Steinhart Aquarium, Morrison Planetarium, Kimball Natural History Museum, and the Osher Rainforest, a four-story indoor living rainforest in the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
The Academy lost its museum and many artifacts in the Great Quake of 1906. Ten years later, the Academy reestablished itself in the Golden Gate Park. Here, the Academy expanded to include different exhibitions, including the Morrison Planetarium and the Steinhart Aquarium.
In 1989, the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit and served as an impetus for a remodeling of the Academy. After decades of work, the new Academy opened its doors on September 27, 2008.
Note: The Osher Rainforest is closing to the public August 21 through November 17, 2023, for infrastructure maintenance, but don’t let that stop you from visiting because there are endless discoveries to be made at the California Academy of Sciences.
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