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Events It’s time to raise a glass for NightLife’s annual salute to brews and the ocean’s most legendary apex predators. 🍻🦈
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits Dragons are real—and real hungry for marine algae. See landscapes, creatures, & flora that rival any fantasy world in our 2019 BigPicture exhibit, featuring some of the best nature & wildlife photographers on Earth! / 📷 Aquatic Life winner Pier Mane
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits Some of Earth's most incredible nature & wildlife photography, all in one place: Our 2019 BigPicture exhibit is now open! Winners & finalists (chosen from 6,500+ submissions) will be on display through Oct. 20. 📷 Terrestrial Wildlife winner Mike Korostelev
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits Step this way to explore the shape-shifting, color-changing, uniquely personal nature of skin in our newest exhibit, “Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity.” From rhinoceroses & humans to insects & birds, it's deeper than you may think.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Shows ‪From our Solar System to the Virgo Supercluster, the big, beautiful, cosmos-sized show "Passport to the Universe" (narrated by Tom Hanks!) offers an astronaut’s-eye view of the incredible objects that constitute our Universe. ‬
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits The VR experience you have to see to believe: Conservation International's "Drop in the Ocean"—which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival—is making its public debut right here, starting TODAY. Step under a giant jelly & get ready to explore the ocean like never before.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Events This Thursday, May 23rd, we’re shrinking NightLife down to size with a celebration of all things tiny, miniature, and microscopic.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Shows Join a Planetarium presenter for our new live presentation, "Beyond Boundaries"—an exploration to the edge of Earth, beyond the limits of our Solar System, and even to a black hole. Where does Earth stop & space begin? And how do these boundaries offer protection to us, to our home planet, & beyond?
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits Big news, tiny humans: Our "Dino Days" festival of moving, roaring, life-size dinos has been EXTENDED! (Because how could we say no to you?) Now through May 27, step into our East Garden ... & 66 million years into the past.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Exhibits NOW OPEN: Life-size dinosaurs have invaded the Academy! Step into our East Garden—and 66 million years into the past—for "Dino Days," an eye-popping array of moving, roaring, animatronic dinosaurs.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Events It’s Darwin NightLife: Music, creatures, cocktails, & more! This week's 2/28 NightLife features the Unlocked Art Lab, scientists' tales of our our 100-year history in the Galápagos, & incredible specimens like Darwin's hawkmoth. 6–10pm, $15 tickets—details at calacademy.org/nightlife.
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

New Arrivals Witness stars being born in the Orion Nebula, zoom through a black hole, & fly into neighboring galaxies. The big, beautiful, cosmos-sized show "Passport to the Universe" is NOW OPEN in one of Earth's largest all-digital planetariums (ours!), narration by Tom Hanks. bit.ly/2SBIXIW ✨
California Academy of Sciences Golden Gate Park

Staff Picks Hello, Nearlist! Please accept this penguin-valentine as a token of our neighborly love. (PS: Need a sudden infusion of feathery joy? Watch our Species Survival Plan colony of African penguins live anytime via our “Pocket Penguin” app!)