California Academy of Sciences


Item Number: 822

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $143

Online Close: Mar 16, 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Bid History: 2 bids

Description

4 passes to the California Academy of Sciences


The California Academy of Sciences is a natural history museum in San Francisco that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 26 million specimens. The main venues of the museum include the following: *Kimball Natural History Museum - generally encompasses the entire museum outside the planetarium, rainforest, and aquarium, and comprises Africa Hall (the Academy's oldest running exhibit), the East Wing (which includes the Foulcault pendulum, also a carry-over exhibit from the older, pre-2008 renovation of the Academy), the West Wing (which currently houses several geophysical exhibits), the science "Project Lab" which features real, live scientists working on real, live research projects and who can be viewed doing their work from outside the lab by public visitors, as well as several smaller exhibits distributed throughout the remainder of the Academy building. *Morrison Planetarium - features the world's largest completely digital planetarium dome measuring in at 90 ft. in diameter with a 75-foot diameter screen. *Rainforests of the World - rainforest exhibit enclosed in a 90-foot glass dome. *Steinhart Aquarium - includes exhibits of coral reef, tidepool, and swamp habitats; as well as a colony of African penguins.

This Live Event Item offers Absentee Bidding.

Special Instructions

This item's online bidding ends Friday 3/16 at 10pm, and bidding will continue at the live auction dinner on 3/17, where it will conclude.

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California Academy of Science