California Academy of Sciences

Name: California Academy of Sciences
Address: 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, US
Telephone: +14153798000
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Aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, natural history museum, & research institution. Since 1853.
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08/27/2026

If you're gonna ask someone "would you love me if I was a worm” objectively, Vivid is the best place to do it. Go underground and get-worm sized at our latest exhibit.
Closing Sept 7!

08/25/2026

Visiting SF this week for the big tournament? You don't have to search far and wide to see some pretty legendary characters. Come meet a few who call the Academy home!

08/12/2026

Feeding time always brings out the best in our penguins. In honor of this Saturday's penguin feeding with Golden State Valkyries player Justė Jocytė, we're highlighting a few colony members we think would make our starting lineup.

08/10/2026

This is not a drill: Penguin Feeding with the Valkyries! 🏀🐧
🗓️ August 15 at 3 PM

For one day only waddle on over for a very special penguin feeding featuring Golden State Valkyries player Justé Jocytė! Watch our charismatic African penguins meet one of our local basketball icons while scoring some delicious herring. 🐟 Free with Cal Academy admission. Get tickets at calacademy.org.

Can't make it in person? Don't let it ruffle your feathers — join via penguin cam instead: https://bit.ly/4wNwxwu

08/07/2026

Got plans for next Wednesday's total solar eclipse yet? 👀☀️
We do. Join us August 12 for an unforgettable eclipse experience, featuring live-streamed coverage from the path of totality set to a live performance by the International Space Orchestra. 🌑

Free with Academy admission, get tickets: https://bit.ly/4wgEWYa

In partnership with SETI Institute Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios PJ Harvey Unistellar and Villa Albertine

08/06/2026

Big news: Phoebe Bridgers new album Lost Weekend is debuting inside our planetarium dome, ahead of its worldwide release on August 14 via Dead Oceans.

For three nights only, each listening session pairs the album with an original visual experiences: a dome show from night-sky photographer Babak Tafreshi Photography.

Just a heads up — this is a listening event, not a live performance, so Phoebe won't be in attendance.
In partnership with Spotify. Get your tickets before they sell out: https://tickets.calacademy.org/lostweekend.

07/30/2026

No thoughts, just fish (and smooth jazz).

Take a much needed break and admire the beauties that call our Amazonian flooded forest home. Feel better? Us too. 😌

07/21/2026

Exhibits you look at: most of them
Exhibits you smell, hear, touch and dissociate to: Vivid

Check out Vivid, our newest exhibit open daily through Sept 6. Link in bio for tickets 🎟️

Exhibition content created and produced by Sensory Odyssey Studio in co-production with the Muséum National D’histoire Naturelle. North American tour coproduced with Supply + Demand.

07/16/2026

These creatures might look like they're from another planet, but they're actually our deep-reef neighbors 🪸.

Cal Academy researchers recently returned from Palau, where they've spent nearly a decade working alongside the local scientific community to monitor the area's delicate reef ecosystems.

On this expedition, the team retrieved 21 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS): artificial habitats that create a concentrated record of local biodiversity. The results? Thousands of specimens, dozens of new-to-science species, and eight years of temperature data shedding light on one of the ocean's least understood environments.

Sure, this work was carried out an ocean away, but the specimens are here in SF where they'll be added to our prolific collections used by researchers all over the world! It's a collaborative effort: our partners at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are generating the DNA sequences, while we lead the analyses here at the Academy to better understand the region's biodiversity.

04/27/2026

Grab a friend and head outside because there’s just 🚨ONE MORE DAY LEFT 🚨to make observations for the City Nature Challenge this year! After today, you can still *upload* your photos onto iNaturalist.org—but they need to be *photographed* between April 24–27 to count as part of the challenge.

Day 3, as of 4/27 8:45am PT:
🌿 60,813+ Species
🌿 1,977,189+ Observations
🌿 87,076+ Observers
🌿 15,106+ Identifiers

Learn more & find events worldwide: citynaturechallenge.org

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55 Music Concourse Drive
San Francisco, CA
94118

Telephone

+14153798000

Website

http://www.calacademy.org/

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