Regions covered –
Part-1 : Wine County, San Francisco City
Part-2 : Silicon Valley (South Bay)
Part-3: San Jose, Gilroy, Santa Cruz, Monterey
Silicon Valley Region
12) NASA Ames Visitor Center
This NASA museum contains parts of space ships with explanations about the astronaut lifestyle and a rock from outer space on display.
Size – Small
Location – Moffett Blvd, Mountain View
Website – https://www.nasa.gov/ames/visit
11) Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Cantor Arts contains among other artists, several works of Rodin and has a beautiful sculpture garden.
Size – Medium
Location – 328 Lomita Dr, Stanford
Website – https://museum.stanford.edu
10) Hoover Tower
This is tower is a dedication to Hoover, the first US president from Stanford and quite controversial in later years. There are smaller artifacts about both Hoover and Stanford founders. This tower is used in a lot of movies and TV series to show a generic college campus.
Size – Tiny
Location – 550 Serra Mall, Stanford
Website – https://visit.stanford.edu/plan/guides/hoover.html
9) Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden
- New Guinea Sculptures at Stanford
A small garden with statues inspired by Papua New Guinea style.
Size – Tiny
Location – 476 Lomita Dr, Stanford
Website – http://web.stanford.edu/~siegelr/stanford/pngsculpture.html
8) Computer History Museum
No visit to the Silicon Valley is complete without the Computer History Museum. It’s very informative regarding the history of semiconductor industry in the Bay Area followed by later advances in software, programming and the internet.
Size – Medium
Location – 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View
Website – https://www.computerhistory.org
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