Golden Gate Park – California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is among the largest Museums of Natural History in the world. The public areas of the Academy are divided into three general areas:
1) The Steinhart Aquarium, which takes up the basement area and can partially be viewed top-down from the ground floor.
2) The Morrison Planetarium, which is devoted to things astronomical. The half-hour shows in the planetarium theater change periodically and can be reserved ahead of time.
3) The Kimball Natural History Museum, which, in addition to its African Hall and a Foucault pendulum, includes a variety of changing displays covering a variety of subjects, one being earthquakes.
4) The Osher Rainforest, which is contained inside a four-story dome and includes 1600+ live plants and animals.
Completely rebuilt in 2008, the building is among the newest natural history museums in the United States. The primary building in Golden Gate Park reopened on September 27, 2008.

Admission fee required to get to machines. $49.99. ea.

Machine 6 is in the downstairs Aquarium is by the elevators from the rainforest.
Change machine next to Machine 6 gives you quarters and the proper amount of nice shiny Zinc pennies.
Machine 7 is in front of the Gift Shop next to the Planetarium.

Machine 6 - (Pennycollector installed 11/2013). All have "CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES". Designs are:
1) Butterflies
2) Fish
3) Frog
4) Penguins

Machine 7 - 2014: (Pennycollector 2014). All have "CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES". Designs are:
1) Claude the White Albino Alligator,
2) Living Roof and Hummingbird
3) Penguin
4) Solar System

Machines 1 through 5 are retired.. All have "CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES San Francisco on them.

Retired 1: 2003 Attended machine with two designs, 1) A Mammoth, 2) T-Rex skeleton.
Retired 2: 1) "Gecko", 2) "Clownfish", 3) "Frog", 4) "Starfish"
Retired 3: 1) Seahorse 2) Water snake 3) Penguin 4) Shark "SAN FRANCISCO"
Retired 4: (06/03), 1) Birthday Cake dated 2003, 2) Saturn, 3: Angel Fish, 4) Butterfly
Retired 5: (2011 - Ret 2014), 1) Cable Car, 2) Claude the White Albino Alligator, 3) Living Roof 4) Two Penguins

10/25/25: Both machines rolling great.
Machine 7 outside Gift Shop,.
Machine 6 is downstairs in the aquarium.
Admission was $49.99. RK
10/10/26: Both machines still in those locations and rolling great.