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San Diego’s Science and Technology Museums
San Diego's Premier Museums: Science, Technology, and the Arts
| MUSEUM | FOCUS |
|---|---|
| Birch Aquarium |
Includes
the Hall of Fishes with 33 tanks, the largest being
55,000 gallons, "the Hall of Oceanography,
to our knowledge the largest display on oceanographic
sciences in the country, and an outdoor plaza with
a demonstration tide pool."
|
| Chula Vista Nature Center |
Marsh
and Wetlands. Teachers of grades K-12 and university
students are welcome to schedule class visits to
the Nature Center.
|
| Model Railroad Museum |
The
world's largest operating model railroad exhibit
contains four enormous scale model layouts depicting
railroads of the southwest in O, HO and N scales
|
| Museum of Man |
Opened
for The Panama-California Exposition on January
1, 1915, this museum focuses on peoples of the
Western Americas, and has six permanent collections.
|
| Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center |
A
combination hands-on science center and space center,
that contains the world's largest motion picture
format called OMNIMAX.
|
| San Diego Aerospace Museum |
Brings
to life aviation's rich heritage through a dazzling
collection of over 65 U.S. and foreign aircraft
and spacecraft from the Wright Flyer to the Space
Shuttle
|
| San Diego Historical Society |
A
collection of five historical sites including the
Museum of San Diego History, the George White and
Anna Gunn Marston House, the Junipero Serra Museum,
etc.
|
| San Diego Museum of Art |
San
Diego's largest visual arts resource, housing a
collection of more than 12,000 art objects, including
collections from the Far East, South Asia, Europe,
America, Modern, and Prints and Drawings.
|
| San Diego Natural History Museum |
Supports
a wide variety of family programs (hands-on workshops,
story times, field trips, etc.), programs for adults
(birders, photographers, etc.), pre-schoolers (crafts,
story times, etc.), and teens (classes from the "sublime
to wild and woolly"), among others.
|
| Timken Museum of Art |
Features
European Old Masters, American Artists, and a collection
of Russian Icons.
|
| Zoological Society of San Diego |
Consists
of the World famous San Diego Zoo, the San Diego
Wild Animal Park, and the Center for Reproduction
of Endangered Species.
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