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Academy Releases Plans for $370M Project

SAN FRANCISCO-The California Academy of Sciences unveiled plans for a new facility that includes a multi-level rainforest exhibit and a 225,000 gallon habitat for living Philippine coral reef.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on July 14, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO-The California Academy of Sciences has unveiled plans this week for a new facility that will house the combined aquarium, planetarium and natural history museum under one roof.

Academy officials said the estimated $370 million project would provide the academy, the oldest scientific institution in the West, with a seismically sound, environmentally friendly, accessible new home on the same site that it has occupied in Golden Gate Park since 1916.

The project cost includes relocation to a temporary facility in 2004 for more than 400 researchers and 16 million specimens. The new building is expected to open in 2008, if all goes according to plan.

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