California Academy of Sciences
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55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California
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The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum, and is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens. The academy started in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research.
The main focus of the exhibits in the academy is natural history, with the main venues featuring the Kimball Natural History Museum, which generally encompasses the entire museum outside the planetarium, rainforest, and aquarium; the Morrison Planetarium, which features a completely digital planetarium dome measuring in at 90ft. in diameter with a 23-metre (75-foot) diameter screen; the Rainforests of the World, which is a rainforest exhibit enclosed in a 90-foot glass dome; and the Steinhart Aquarium, which includes exhibits of coral reef, tidepool, and swamp habitats, as well as a colony of African penguins.
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Lat: 37.769864 Lng: -122.466095
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