Claudia and I were in line at 8:15 this morning for a member’s preview of the new California Academy of Sciences museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The new museum is spectacular.
The most exciting new exhibit is the rain forest dome. The photo below shows the Amazon flooded forest tunnel, which is at the bottom of the rain forest dome (you can see the walkways spiraling up to the top of the rain forest canopy at the top of the photo). The Rain Forest exhibit holds a variety of tropical birds, butterflies, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. Among the birds in the rain forest dome, I recognized both Violaceous Euphonia and Silver-beaked Tanager from our trip last winter to the Asa Wright Nature Center in Trinidad.
The Amazon flooded forest tunnel.
The Rain Forest dome.
The Water Planet exhibit.
The California Coast exhibit.
The Cal Academy will reopen to the public with a free day on Saturday, September 27th, 2008.
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