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What you should know
Best time
Visit on a Saturday to take advantage of available docents who provide knowledgeable tours and can enhance your understanding of the exhibits, particularly the local East Bay fossil collections.
Visitor tip
Don't miss the planetarium show and high voltage exhibit—these volunteer-created interactive experiences are highlights that generate significant visitor enthusiasm and are worth prioritizing during your visit.
Visitor tip
Book a docent-led tour if visiting with school groups or homeschool co-ops—field trips are available and docents can provide detailed context about the fossil and natural history collections that enhance learning outcomes.
Quick Facts
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- Aquarium
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- Aquarium
What visitors say
The kids loved the fish tank, posing for pictures, and bowling!!! The ferris wheel is a short ride but it was fun.
It was neat, but not what we expected for an aquarium google search. Giant fish tank would be more appropriate? It was one tank and had two archways separating Scheels from the mall shops. It did have Halloween decorations in it which…
The aquarium is nice, clean, and an impressive welcoming into the store. What really stands out most, to me, is the quality of taxidermy that's displayed throughout the store. A massive display in the center of the store is certainly a…
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Did You Know?
- Managed by the non-profit Math Science Nucleus, this is a hidden gem natural history museum focused on teaching local geology and paleontology with exhibits featuring fossils and specimens from the East Bay area
- Features the Wes Gordon Fossil Hall with Irvingtonian Fossils and exhibits spanning the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic periods, including a Sabertooth Cat replica
- Volunteers have created custom interactive devices including a high voltage exhibit and immersive displays like the Wieckowski Widescreen for Earth and space travel experiences
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