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Hands-on pinball museum with 100+ playable machines — covers mechanical engineering, physics of motion, and electronics history.

On-campus paleontology museum at The Webb Schools holding one of the nation's largest fossil collections — vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary biology.

Live-steam railroad museum with operating miniature locomotives — covers mechanical engineering, steam power, and railroad history through hands-on rides and demonstrations.

Large-scale model railroad museum with multiple operating layouts — covers civil engineering, geography, and the history of rail transportation.

Natural history museum with fossil, gem, and wildlife collections — covers paleontology, geology, and California ecology with a full planetarium.

Marine science center on Stearns Wharf with live touch tanks and ocean exhibits — covers marine biology, tidal ecosystems, and Pacific Coast ecology.

Interactive museum of video-game and digital art history in Oakland — covers computer science, software history, and interactive media design.

Hands-on nature and science center at Sanborn County Park — supports biology, ecology, and earth science through live animals and interactive exhibits.

Open-air museum of working antique gas and steam-powered farm equipment — covers mechanical engineering history, thermodynamics, and agricultural technology.

Small Santa Paula museum preserving historic aircraft and aviation artifacts — covers aeronautics principles and California aviation history.

Aerospace museum at Boron covering Cold War flight history, rocket propulsion, and the nearby Edwards AFB test-flight legacy.

Desert education center covering Mojave/Sonoran ecology, native adaptations, and arid-land geology — applied environmental science curriculum.

Agricultural museum on working acreage in California's Central Valley — covers farm equipment history, crop science, and agribusiness.

California State Historic Landmark powerhouse preserving original 1895 AC generators — covers electrical generation history, engineering, and energy transmission.

Working model railroad museum with large-scale layouts — covers engineering, scale modeling, and the history of rail transport.

Museum documenting NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex — covers radio astronomy, telecommunications engineering, and space exploration history.

Physical archive of the Internet Archive in Richmond — covers digital preservation, computer history, and information science.

Historic Sierra Nevada hard-rock gold mine and museum — covers mining geology, mineralogy, and California Gold Rush industrial history.

Desert museum near China Lake featuring geology, Native American archaeology, and Mojave Basin natural history exhibits.

Natural history museum within Morro Bay State Park — covers Central Coast marine biology, local geology, and the ecology of Morro Bay estuary.

Summit museum atop Mount Diablo covering regional geology, ecology, and the mountain's extraordinary 360-degree geographic sightlines.

Regional aviation museum documenting North Bay-area aircraft and military aviation history — supports aerospace and engineering curriculum.

Marine science center on the Mendocino coast with exhibits on local ocean ecosystems — covers marine biology, coastal ecology, and conservation science.

Visitor center at an active open-pit borax mine — covers industrial mineralogy, desert geology, and large-scale mining operations.