If you live in the zip code 94115, 94118, 94121, or 94129, you can get in free to the California Academy of Sciences this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Several times a year, the Academy offers free admission to local residents. All you need is proof of residency, and a little patience (the lines are known to be very long on free days).
If you don’t have a driver’s license or state ID, you can also bring another photo ID along with a envelope, postcard, or magazine label with name and date, or a photo ID and a utility bill or bank statement (more info)
Each adult can bring up to 6 children in with them for free. Not sure which day to go or what you want to see? One of these special programs might help you decide:
Live penguin feeding – every day at 10:30am and 3:30pm
Family Nature Crafts – every Saturday from 11am – 12:30pm | Ages 4-8
Live snake demonstration – every Saturday at 1:30pm
Animal Tales in the Explorer’s Cove – Saturday at 11am | Ages 2-5
Swamp Talk – every Saturday or Sunday at 2pm
P is for Penguin: every Saturday and Sunday at 12:30pm
Sharks and Rays – every Saturday and Sunday, 11:15am
For descriptions of the above events, visit the calacademy.org events page.
If you can’t make it in free this weekend, the Academy also offers free admission to anyone on every third Wednesday of the month. That leaves October 20, November 17, and December 15 in 2010.
The California Academy of Sciences is located in Golden Gate Park’s Music Concourse and is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30am until 5pm, and Sundays from 11am until 5pm.
Sarah B.
This is the worst possible weekend for such an event; the same weekend as the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass mob. Who schedules these things? If you want to go to a free day, you have to fight your way past hordes of intoxicated, hillbilly fans, lugging along their 9 year old brides.