{"id":3191,"date":"2009-03-25T13:19:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T05:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:19:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T05:19:19","slug":"museums-sciences-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/25\/museums-sciences-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Museums &amp; Sciences II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9658-californiaacademyofsciences\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"521\" alt=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9658-californiaacademyofsciences\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blog2009sanfranciscodsc-9658californiaacademyofsciences.jpg\" width=\"353\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> The second museum we checked out on Tuesday 24 March was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California_Academy_of_Sciences\">California Academy of Sciences<\/a>. This was a really slick and modern museum; they\u2019d apparently moved into their home at the Golden Gate Park just last year, and that building was impressively large, imposing, great use of lighting, glass and all the amenities of a modern attraction. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Academy isn\u2019t just a museum. It houses in fact their own in-house scientists and researchers, and parts of the museum hold a collection of 20 million species. <\/p>\n<p>The exhibits mostly aren\u2019t interactive like the Exploratorium, but still really impressive. There was a large section on the African Savannahs and jungles with realistic and life-sized models of animals. The basement comprises the world\u2019s largest living coral reef display, with huge tanks and many smaller tanks all showcasing marine life. <\/p>\n<p>The place though was incredibly crowded, the more unusual since this was a weekday afternoon. There were so many people queuing up to enter the Planetarium and Rainforest dome that I took one look and gave up. <\/p>\n<p>Very well worth a visit, but if I ever return here a second time, I\u2019m gonna have to figure out a time where it isn\u2019t nearly so crowded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9597-californiaacademyofsciences\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"400\" alt=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9597-californiaacademyofsciences\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blog2009sanfranciscodsc-9597californiaacademyofsciences.jpg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9603-californiaacademyofsciences\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"398\" alt=\"blog-2009-sanfrancisco-DSC_9603-californiaacademyofsciences\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/blog2009sanfranciscodsc-9603californiaacademyofsciences.jpg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chekyang\/sets\/72157615781038949\/\">here<\/a>.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second museum we checked out on Tuesday 24 March was the California Academy of Sciences. This was a really slick and modern museum; they\u2019d apparently moved into their home at the Golden Gate Park just last year, and that<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/03\/25\/museums-sciences-ii\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Museums &amp; Sciences II<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","tag-san-francisco-2009","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}