Links: Arts & Science in the Bay Area

Museums & Galleries
Music
Parks
Theater
Miscellaneous

Museums & Galleries

Alexander Lindsay Museum - Walnut Creek
Asian Art Museum - San Francisco
Bedford Gallery - Walnut Creek
Berkeley Arts Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley
C. E. Smith Museum of Anthropology - CSU Hayward
California Historical Society - San Francisco
Cartoon Art Museum - San Francisco
Chabot Observatory and Science Center - Oakland
Children's Discovery Museum - San Jose
Chinese Culture Center - San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences - San Francisco (Steinhart Aquarium, Natural History Museum, Morrison Planetarium)
California Palace Legion of Honor - San Francisco
Center for Photographic Art - Carmel
Coyote Point Museum - San Mateo
Craft & Folk Art Museum - San Francisco
Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts - Walnut Creek
Dolby Chadwick Gallery - San Francisco
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum - San Francisco
Exploratorium  - San Francisco
Explorit Science Center - Davis
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco - San Francisco
Haines Gallery - San Francisco
Hall of Health - Berkeley
Heart Art Gallery - Moraga
Intel Museum - Santa Clara
Jennjoy Gallery - San Francisco
Judah L. Magnes Museum - Berkeley
Kala Art Institute - Berkeley
Lawrence Hall of Science - Berkeley
Lindsay Wildlife Museum - Walnut Creek
Mexican Museum - San Francisco
Mills College Art Museum - Oakland
Monterey Bay Aquarium - Monterey
Museum of the City of San Francisco - San Francisco
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology - Berkeley
National Japanese American Historical Society - San Francisco
New Artists' Guild of San Francisco - San Francisco
Oakland Museum - Oakland
Palo Alto Art Center - Palo Alto
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - Berkeley
Randall Museum - San Francisco
San Francisco Art Institute - San Francisco
S.F. Black and White - San Francisco
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose
Santa Cruz Surfing Museum - Santa Cruz
SomArts Culture Center - San Francisco
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum - San Jose
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum - San Francisco
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose
The Art Room - San Francisco
The Tech Museum of Innovation - San Jose
The Treasure Island Museum - Treasure Island
Triton Museum of Art - Santa Clara
U. C. Berkeley Art Gallery - Berkeley
University of California Museum of Paleontology - Berkeley
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco
ZEUM - Art and technology center, San Francisco

Music

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra - Berkeley
Cal Performances - U.C. Berkeley
Chronicle Pavilion - Concord
Clarion Music Center - San Francisco
Community Music Center - San Francisco
Contra Costa Wind Symphony - Walnut Creek
Dean Lesher Regional Center - Walnut Creek
The Fillmore - San Francisco
Great American Music Hall - San Francisco
Marin Symphony - San Rafael
Oakland East Bay Symphony - Oakland
Old First Concerts -San Francisco
Paramount Theater - Oakland
Peninsula Symphony - San Mateo
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - San Francisco
San Francisco Bach Choir - San Francisco
San Francisco Conservatory of Music - San Francisco
San Francisco Opera - San Francisco
San Francisco Performances - San Francisco
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - San Francisco
San Jose Symphony Orchestra - San Jose
Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View
UC Davis Presents - Davis
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco

Parks

California State Department of Parks & Recreation - state parks, parks events, programs
East Bay Regional Parks - 55 parks and 26 regional interpark trails covering more than 85,000 acres
Golden Gate National Recretational Area - San Francisco
National Park Service - everything you need to know about visiting our National parks; search for parks by name, theme or location

Theater

American Conservatory Theater - San Francisco
American Musical Theater of San Jose - San Jose
Aurora Theatre Company - Berkeley
Berkeley Repertory Theatre - Berkeley
Best of Broadway - Broadway shows in San Francisco
Cal Performances - UC Berkeley
Cowell Theater - San Francisco
Dance Mission - San Francisco
Dean Lesher Regional Center - Walnut Creek
Lamplighters Music Theatre - San Francisco & Walnut Creek
Northside Theatre Company - San Jose
ODC/San Francisco - San Francisco
Palace of Fine Arts Theater - San Francisco
Paramount Theater - Oakland
San Jose Repertory Theatre - San Jose
Stanford Lively Arts - Palo Alto
Theater ArtAud - San Francisco
TheatreWorks - Palo Alto
Theatre on the Square - San Francisco
Theatre Rhinoceros - San Francisco
Town Hall Theatre - Lafayette
UC Davis Presents - Davis
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - San Francisco

Miscellaneous

BayArea.com - a guide to all things local, bought to you by Real Cities
BayArea.com Events - search for local entertainment
Bay Area CitySearch - everything there is to do in the Bay Area and beyond, with reviews, directions, maps, hours, fees - everything!
Deerhill Ranch - experiencial learning and adventure education for Bay Area youths ages 4-18 as well as adults
City of Walnut Creek Places to See, Things to Do -Walnut Creek (includes Regional Center for the Arts, Shadelands Ranch Historical Museum, Old Borges Ranch and more)
CultureFinder - CultureFinder Calendar contains season schedules for 1,500 organizations nationwide; type in the date(s) and city and search for cultural events
Marine World - Vallejo
Oakland Zoo - Oakland
San Francisco Zoo - San Francisco
SF Station - information source for arts, culture and much more

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