Museum sights in East Bay
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Ebony Museum
The Ebony Museum, a dense collection in a ramshackle Victorian house, exhibits African and African American art and antiquities. Head upstairs for a chilling perusal of the museum's Black Degradation Art collection.
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Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science educates and entertains with a huge collection of displays, from lasers to earthquakes to a climbable 60ft model of a DNA molecule.
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Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California is a must-see. Relevant, fascinating exhibits have included knockout Yosemite photography and interactive Great Quake rooms. (It may close temporarily in 2012 for renovations.)
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Museum of Paleontology
The Museum of Paleontology, in the ornate Valley Life Sciences Building, is a research museum. It's mostly closed to the public, but you can see a few exhibits in the atrium, including a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton.
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UC Berkeley Art Museum
A campus highlight with 11 galleries showcasing a wide range of works, from ancient Chinese to cutting-edge contempor-ary. Across the street, its world-renowned Pacific Film Archivescreens little-known independent and avant-garde films. Both are scheduled to move to a new Oxford St location by 2014.
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Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
In Kroeber Hall, the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology showcases the diversity of human cultures from around the world, with artifacts from ancient Peru, Egypt and Africa, among others. There’s also a large collection highlighting native California cultures.
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Old Oakland
Old Oakland, immediately west of Broadway, is lined with historic buildings dating from the 1860s to 1880s. The buildings have been restored and new, upscale restaurants have begun to make this a hub of evening activity. The area also hosts a lively Chinese-influenced farmers market every Friday morning – a great time to visit.
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