Free ride to the California Academy of Sciences

Posted on 1 Dec 2009 - by Katkat In: deals around town, Travel

Free ride to the California Academy of Sciences

It’s always great to get free stuffs. Here in the US, I find that if you’re resourceful enough, you can get a great bargain on a lot of things and sometimes it’s even free! That’s how we arrived at the doorstep of California Academy of Sciences. This museum is a leading edge research and educational institute. It is open to the public and entrance tickets are priced at 25USD. But during the 3rd Wednesday of the month, it opens its door for free. This is how we get into the museum.

The California Academy of Sciences is located at 55 Music Concourse Dr.Golden Gate Park San Francisco. The Academy is driven by two burning questions: 1) How did life on Earth develop? 2) How will we sustain life on Earth? The theme inside this building centers around the interdependence of earth, ocean and space. It houses an aquarium, a planetarium and a natural history museum. It is really a great educational place. Great for kids and students. But for me, I discovered that I’m too old for such museum. My father loved it though. I’m more into photo-op moments and not so much about the learning.

Despite my disinterest, I still enjoyed learning about new stuffs like the 250million year old turtles which is the size of a hill or the albino crocodile and the humongous anaconda. We visited the aquarium – which is ok for me (because I’ve visited a lot of aquariums already this year that I feel like there’s nothing new) and the Kimball Natural History museum which has life size statues of animals. We weren’t able to go inside the planetarium because it needs passes and the line is just too long and also the rainforest which has that weird solar panels on top of the roof.

My dad likes to return there again with my mom. I would also like to complete the tour by visiting the places I haven’t visited. When you go outside the museum there are the SF botanical garden and the Japanese garden. There are tickets for touring them. It’s nice to idle around the museum especially on a warm day. Anyway, if you want to know more about California Academy of Sciences, click here.