A new exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences
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September 30, 2016
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The California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco http://www.calacademy.org/
The newly remodeled California Academy of Sciences, located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park across from the almost-new (2006) de Young Museum, is not your grandmother’s natural history ...