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The museums listed below are all within a couple of hours driving distance of Salinas. Each one has exhibits that will appeal to those interested in the sciences.

Includes the Essig Museum of Entomology, The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropolgy, the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, the University and Jepson Herbaria, and the University of California Botanical Garden. Berkeley, CA.

Includes the Steinhart Aquarium, The Natural History Museum, and Morrison Planetarium. San Francisco, CA.

This is an amazing hands-on science museum. Exhibits include dissections and all sort of things to spin, slosh, and throw. San Francisco, CA.

Hands-on science museum, including earthquake sensing equipment and ancient physics lab stuff. Berkeley, CA.

Cruising sharks, a 3-story tall kelp forest, and real specimens from Doc Rickett's biology lab. Cute sea otters, too. Includes all of the things that normally hide from you in tide pools. Monterey, CA.

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

Lots of real mummies and incredible artifacts, as well as a walk-in tomb! Flashlights available for those faint at heart. San Jose, CA.

Ever seen yourself projected as a computer-image bug? How about a 3-D rendering of your head? Includes a ride-along tour through the human body, and an IMAX theater, too. San Jose, CA.

As always, I can be reached at askmrc@earthlink.net.