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| 00 Kimball Natural History Museum - The Entrance |
Kimball Natural History Museum
Address: Golden
Gate Park, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Coordinates: 37.7699°
N, -122.4661° E
Architectural
Style: Sustainable Design
Architect: Renzo
Piano Workshop
Built
by:
California Academy of Sciences
This new 412,300 square feet Museum is the largest LEED Platinum rated
public building in the world when it reopened in 2008. It houses a planetarium,
a four-storey rain forest and an aquarium. This museum run by California
Academy of Sciences along with natural history exhibits, gives visitors a
holistic portrait of the world and its diverse past and present inhabitants.
This museum presents a sustainable exhibition design in a space bathed in
natural light and without walls, in the middle of Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco. The exhibits are free standing and multi-faceted and discoverable,
following a non-linear experience of life. The museum also houses Morrison Planetarium,
Rainforests of the World and Steinhart Aquarium. One needs more than a day to
go around all the exhibits and to thoroughly experience this incredible museum.
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| 01 Kimball Natural History Museum - The Lobby |
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| 02 Kimball Natural History Museum - Spherical Glass Dome Enclosing the Rain Forest Exhibit |
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| 03 Kimball Natural History Museum - Another Hanging Display of Fossilized Animal |
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| 04 Kimball Natural History Museum - Display of Butterflies |
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| 05 Kimball Natural History Museum - A Collection of Animal Skulls |
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| 06 Kimball Natural History Museum - A Display of Hanging from Roof |
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| 07 Kimball Natural History Museum - A Corridor in the Museum |
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| 08 Kimball Natural History Museum - Plants on the Roof Top |
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| 09 Kimball Natural History Museum - Roof Top Plant Collection - A Guide Makes a Presentation |
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| 10 Kimball Natural History Museum - Outdoor Eating Area |
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