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Chabot Space & Science Center
Opened in 2000, the Chabot Space & Science Center is a science and technology center in the Oakland Hills, with loads of exhibits on subjects such as space travel and eclipses. The center's open Friday and Saturday evenings for planetarium shows and - check it out - free viewing through a 20in refractor telescope (weather permitting).
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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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Museum of Children's Art
This museum, also known as MOCHA, is a combination children's art gallery, and children's art class, where your kids can create their own masterpieces. Not surprisingly, it's a very popular venue for children's birthdays. A lively farmers market takes place every Friday morning outside the museum, making this a particularly good time to visit.
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Oakland Museum
Near the southern end of the lake is the Oakland Museum, which has rotating exhibitions on artistic as well as scientific themes, not to mention three worthwhile permanent galleries. These are dedicated to the state's diverse ecology; its history, from its native past to the suburban present; and California art, from lavish 19th-century landscapes to edgy contemporary works. The Lake Merritt BART station is a block away.
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Old Oakland
Old Oakland, along Washington St between 8th and 10th Sts, is lined with historic buildings dating from the 1860s to the 1880s. The buildings have been restored and some restaurants and hotels have opened up here.
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