Back أكاديمية كاليفورنيا للعلوم Arabic Academia de Ciencies de California AST Acadèmia de les Ciències de Califòrnia Catalan Budova California Academy of Sciences Czech California Academy of Sciences German Kalifornia Akademio de Sciencoj Esperanto Academia de Ciencias de California Spanish فرهنگستان علوم کالیفرنیا Persian Académie des sciences de Californie French האקדמיה למדעים של קליפורניה HE

California Academy of Sciences

Not to be confused with California Science Center or California Institute of Science.

California Academy of Sciences
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Established1853 (1853)
LocationGolden Gate Park
San Francisco, California, United States
Coordinates37°46′12″N 122°27′59″W / 37.7701°N 122.466407°W / 37.7701; -122.466407
TypeNatural history
AccreditationAAM
ASTC
Visitors1.34 million (2016)[1]
DirectorScott D. Sampson (2020)[2]
ArchitectRenzo Piano
Employees504 (May 2020)[2]
Public transit access
Websitecalacademy.org

The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens.[3] The academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research.[4] The institution is located in Golden Gate Park on the West Side of San Francisco.

Completely rebuilt in 2008, the academy's primary building in Golden Gate Park covers 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2).[3][5] In early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the California Academy of Sciences had around 500 employees and an annual revenue of about $33 million.[2]

The museum is accessible via public transit on the N Judah Metro line. The westbound 9th Avenue and Irving station is located about 0.5 miles from the Academy of Sciences.[6] Three Muni bus lines also serve the museum, the 44, 5, and 7 lines.[6]

  1. ^ "Largest Bay Area Museums". San Francisco Business Times. August 25, 2017. Archived from the original on March 20, 2023. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c DiFeliciantonio, Chase (May 27, 2020). "California Academy of Sciences announces layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts affecting hundreds". SFChronicle.com. Archived from the original on May 29, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AcademyAbout was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wollan2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b "Getting Here". California Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on September 8, 2023. Retrieved September 8, 2023.

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