Two visitors using touchscreen table exhibit about plants

What Grows Where?

Get to know California's crops and plant communities through interactive satellite data.

Through stories featuring Latinx and Indigenous people and their connections with native and agricultural plants, visitors are invited to explore a giant touch-screen map of California showing hundreds of different plant types.

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Girl climbing into multi-colored tire tunnel exhibit as mother watches

Eternal Spring

Can a garden transport you to another place?

Mother and daughter on bench touching plant and laughing

Plant Tunes

Connect with a plant to make music.

Visitor examining plants under a microscope

Story Slides

Use a microscope to explore plant materials and discover the stories they tell.

Scent Memories

Plant scents can evoke powerful memories.

Visitor focusing microscope to examine colorful corn.

Celebrating the Diversity of Maize

Discover the many varieties and uses of corn in Latin America.

Visualizing the Bay Area

Discover invisible processes unfolding across the Bay, the land, and the atmosphere.

Funded by a generous grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with additional support from the Troy and Leslie Daniels Fund for Life Sciences.