On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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2. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The eastern half of this 5km-long<br>
municipal park is packed with attractions, some indoor (Asian Art<br>
Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Conservatory of Flowers) and<br>
most outdoor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you have an interest in nature, I particularly recommend the California</div><div>Academy of Sciences, which was rebuilt a few years ago. It now houses</div><div>a three-story tall indoor tropical rain forest, as well as continuing to be a</div>
<div>home for a colony of penguins. The penguin feeding is fun to watch.</div><div><a href="http://www.calacademy.org/">http://www.calacademy.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is also the De Young Museum, which is across a plaza from the </div>
<div>Academy of Science. They have several special exhibits, but the most</div><div>interesting is probably the Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings </div><div>From the Mauritshuis. <a href="http://deyoung.famsf.org/">http://deyoung.famsf.org/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Rick also mentioned that the Asian Art Museum was in Golden Gate Park. </div><div>After Rick moved out of SF the museum moved to a new location, in the </div><div>Civic Center area. Their current major exhibit is the Terracotta Warriors</div>
<div>from China. <a href="http://www.asianart.org/">http://www.asianart.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>Mike<div><br></div>