Best of California?

[East]

Here is a list of local museums....

Asian Art Museum - San Francisco
Bedford Gallery at Lesher Center - Walnut Creek
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley
Cartoon Art Museum - San Francisco
Cantor Center for Visual Arts - Stanford
De Saisset Museum - Santa Clara
de Young Museum - San Francisco
Junior Center of Art and Science - Oakland
Museum of Art & History - Santa Cruz
Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) - Oakland
Museum of Craft and Design - San Francisco
Museum of Craft & Folk Art - San Francisco
Oakland Museum of California - Oakland
Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco
Palo Alto Art Center - Palo Alto
Peninsula Museum of Art - Belmont
Quilt Museum - San Jose
Richmond Art Center - Richmond
San Francisco Center for the Book - San Francisco
San Francisco Children's Art Center - San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History - Santa Cruz
Triton Museum of Art - Santa Clara


Cultural Museums
Center for African & African American Art and Culture - Oakland
China Town - San Francisco
The Contemporary Jewish Museum - San Francisco
Hakone Garden - Saratoga
Hayward Japanese Garden - Hayward
Japanese American Resource Museum - San Jose
Japanese Friendship Garden in Kelly Park - San Jose
Judah L. Magnes Museum - Berkeley
Marine Museum of the American Indian - Marin
Mexican Heritage Plaza - San Jose
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - Berkeley
Rosecrutian Egyptian Museum - San Jose
San Mateo Japanese Garden in Central Park - San Mateo


Science & Technology Museums
California Academy of Sciences
Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Oakland
Exploratorium - San Francisco
Lawrence Hall of Science - Berkeley
Intel Museum - Santa Clara
Junior Center of Art and Science - Oakland
Lick Observatory - San Jose
Morrison Planetarium - San Francisco
Nasa Ames Visitor Center - Mountain View
Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History - Santa Cruz
The Tech Museum - San Jose
Youth Science Institute - Los Gatos
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology


Historical Museums (see Historical Fun)

Nature Museums (see Animals)

Natural History Museums (Dinosaurs!)
California Academy Natural History Museum - San Francisco
Children's Natural History Museum - Fremont
Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History - Pacific Grove
Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History - Santa Cruz
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology - Berkeley


Train Models & Museums
California State Railroad Museum - Sacramento
Golden Gate Model Railroad Club at Randall Museum - San Francisco
Golden State Model Railroad Museum - Point Richmond
Niles Canyon Railway Museum - Sunol
Cable Car Museum - San Francisco
Golden Gate Railroad Museum - San Francisco
Barron Park Garden Railway - Palo Alto
Market Street Railway - San Francisco
San Francisco Cable Cars - San Francisco
South Bay Historical Railroad Society - Santa Clara
Railroad-Ferry Depot - Tiburon
Western Railway Museum - Solano
Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society - Walnut Creek
West Bay Model Train Association - Menlo Park


Specialty Museums
Behring Automotive Museum - Blackhawk
Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia- Burlingame
Charles M. Shultz Museum - Santa Rosa
Hiller Aviation Museum - San Carlos
Pacific Coast Air Museum - Santa Rosa
Pacific Pinball Museum - Alameda
Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not - San Francisco
Rosecrutian Museum - San Jose
San Francisco Fire Department Museum - San Francisco
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum - Santa Cruz
Wells Fargo Museum - San Francisco
Winchester Mystery House - San Jose

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I have actually been to most of these...my favorites are the Hakone Gardens in Saratoga which is a living museum I suppose...The Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Rosecrutian Museum (Egyptian), The de Young, The Tech Museum in San Jose and Monterey Bay Aquarium....