Museum Evolution

It’s as if the Smithsonian and Monterey Bay Aquarium had a fling, and we just met their love child.

Familiar -- only hipper.

For all that hip-ness, the California Academy of Sciences is less revolutionary than evolutionary. The logical next step among many steps museums have been taking for decades.


Steps in a direction I first witnessed in 1976 when I walked into the National Air and Space Museum shortly after it opened.

Education meets entertainment...

When it works, it doesn’t just catch your attention. It holds it. And that’s what happened tonight.