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Marin Counties interesting historical and learning Museums:
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Marin County Civic Center
designed by: Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/CU/main/flw/cctourarch.cfm
Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society
P.O. Box 134, Belvedere-Tiburon, CA 94920
(415) 415/435-1853
http://www.weblink.com/landmarks/
China Camp State Park
Route 1, Box 244, San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 456-0766
http://parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=466
Fairfax Historical Society
P.O. Box 622, Fairfax CA 94978
(415) 454-3615
http://www.marindirect.com/fxhistory/
Novato History Museum and Archives
815 Delong Avenue, Novato CA 94945
(415) 897-4320
Old Timers Museum
11 Knolltop Ct., Novato CA 94945
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Falkirk Cultural Center
1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 485-3328
http://www.falkirkculturalcenter.org/
Sausalito Historical Society
420 Litho Street, Sausalito, CA 94966
(415) 289-4117
info@sausalitohistoricalsociety.org
Marin Heritage
P.O. Box 1432, San Rafael CA 94915
(415) 454-2168
Olompali State Historic Park
P.O. Box 1016, Novato, CA 94948
(415) 892-3383
http://parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=465
Mount Tamalpais State Park Visitor Center
801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley CA 94941
(415) 388-2070
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=471
Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society
P.O. Box 134, Belvedere-Tiburon, CA 94920
(415) 415/435-1853
http://www.weblink.com/landmarks/
China Camp State Park
Route 1, Box 244, San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 456-0766
http://parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=466
Tule Elk State Reserve Visitor Center
Point Reyes National Sea Shore, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
(415) 663-1092
http://www.sfgate.com/getoutside/1996/aug/elkintro.html
Olompali State Historic Park
P.O. Box 1016, Novato, CA 94948
(415) 892-3383
http://parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=465
Marin County Historical Society
1125 D Street, San Rafae,l CA 94901
(415) 454-8538
http://www.marinhistory.org/
Bay Area Discovery Museum
East Fort Baker 557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito, CA 94965
(415) 289-7266
http://www.badm.org/
The Bolinas Museum
48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA 94924
(415) 868-0330
Marin Museum of the American Indian
2200 Novato Boulevard, Novato CA 94948
(415) 897-4064
Old Timers Museum
11 Knolltop Ct., Novato CA 94945
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Global Virtual Museum
P.O. Box 93, Ross, CA 94957
(415) 456-1849
http://www.art-life.com/MOCA/index.html
Best Place to Relive the Days of Frogger and Pong
Star Base Arcade, 1545 Fourth St., San Rafael. 415.459.7665.
From food to culture to shopping, downtown San Rafael is clearly trying to stay ahead of the pack, and that's what Marinites expect. It's surprising, lucky and downright strange, then, that the dark, dank video-game alley still sits there down at the end of the Fourth Street corridor, as it's likely sat for a couple of decades. A throwback to the years before Xbox and Playstation colonized the brains of today's youth, when entertainment had to be found outside the house, the small space is decidedly old-school. It's populated with familiar joystick-and-steering-wheel-operated machines, electronic pings and pongs and gunfire bursts emanating from tinny speakers. The pimply denizens meet their friends for a few hours of precious freedom (perhaps while mom and dad take in a film at the Rafael or stroll the farmers market), and the walls practically drip teenage angst--or maybe that's just a spilled Dr. Pepper.
(From Marin IJ - January29,2010)
Stones guitar and Airplane violin added to Marin Rocks exhibition
An electric guitar signed by all the Rolling Stones and a violin--hand-painted and signed by the Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick--were just donated to the Marin History Museum's (MHM) Marin Rocks exhibit by Ross residents John and Maria Pitcairn
The instruments will join other rock and roll artifacts and collectors items in the upcoming exhibit. Marin Rocks, an interactive exhibit which details the heady days of rock and roll in the North Bay, is part of the new Music Center in downtown San Rafael scheduled to open in Fall 2010. The exhibit will combine state of the art visual presentations featuring historical film and video as well as other displays.
