When I was little we would go to San Francisco and visit Golden Gate Park. We'd stop at the Japanese Tea Garden and we'd walk around the area where the museums are - the De Young and the Steinhart Aquarium, the Academy of Sciences. Several years ago they were both remodeled. I've been to the De Young a few times but hadn't had chance to go to the Academy. I was so excited to go. I went with friend Wrendy and her son and his friend. The new academy is nice. There are still some old favorites and probably the bones are all the same but it's lovely and modern. I would like to go again.
There is a rainforest in a type of biosphere. There are lots of butterflies and birds flying around.
There are also lots of big spiders. All of them are not behind glass. We think they must have escaped when they were babies.
You walk up to the top of the canopy on a walkway that spirals up to the top and then ride an elevator down to below the forest to the aquarium - part of which is a big plexiglass tube that lets you walk under/through one of the fish tanks.
There's still a planetarium - modernized - looks very cool from the outside.
Remember this?
The alligator tank! You can look down on it. I have this recollection of being able to walk up to it and it was a tropical display with a bridge of sorts you could walk over. Maybe a different place? Anyway, this tank you can look down on but also view it from ground/water level.
They still have the pedulum.
The top of the building is covered with a living roof. You can use stairs or an elevator.
That's the De Young. Why does it remind me of something out of Star Wars? :-)
