WESLEY GORDON FOSSIL HALL
including "Irvingtonian Fossils", the "Boy Paleontologist" Room,
"Bones of Vertebrates," and
"Environments through Time" exhibits.
HALL OF STARS
featuring the Miller Stardome and "Walk through Time" Exhibit which
shows how the Earth evolved from 4.5 billion years ago to the present.
NATURE HALL including
100 year old specimens from the original DeYoung museum in San
Francisco, collection of Otto Graff (Irvington High School teacher in
the 1950's - 80's); and "Shells of the World Collection."
TOOLS OF EARLY HUMANS includes a collection of stone grinding materials, fish hooks, and
arrowheads of early people in California. See contents of a midden
(trash area) of local Native Americans. (Part of the Mineral and Rock
Hall)
MINERAL AND ROCK HALL is a collection that illustrate how minerals are grouped
by their chemical composition. The rocks show the major
sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks found in California.
HALL OF SMALL WONDERS
includes displays of radiolarians, diatoms and foraminifera. Look
through microscopes to see an amazing world of little creatures of the
sea.
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NATURAL
HISTORY MUSEUM
Information on the development of a museum in the Fremont area highlighting the Irvingtonian Fossils