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Randall Museum, San Francisco, CA

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Randall Museum

A free, hands-on science, nature, and arts museum in San Francisco, with live native animals and a hillside setting.

199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114 · San Francisco, CA

About Randall Museum

The Randall Museum is a museum in central San Francisco run by the city's Recreation & Parks Department with support from the Randall Friends. It focuses on science, nature, and the arts, with live native animals, interactive nature displays, and exhibits on oceans, earthquakes, and model trains. Other spaces include a theater, a woodshop, and art and ceramics studios. The museum opened in 1951 on a 16-acre park overlooking San Francisco Bay and was named for Josephine Randall, the city's first Superintendent of Recreation, who had pushed for a nature museum for children. Its interior was redesigned in 2016, and it offers classes, day camps, field trips, and a café.

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