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Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds.

It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development of Golden Gate Park.

Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape to but 20 percent larger than Central Park in New York City, to which it is often compared.

It is over three miles long east to west, and about half a mile north to south.

With 24 million visitors annually, Golden Gate is the third most-visited city park in the United States after Central Park and the Lincoln Memorial.

The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 46 million specimens.

The Academy began in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research.

The institution is located at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Entrance to the Science Museum of Virginia.

A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.

Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc.

Modern trends in museology have broadened the range of subject matter and introduced many interactive exhibits.

Modern science museums, increasingly referred to as 'science centres' or 'discovery centres', also feature technology.

San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California.

The city proper is the fourth most populous in California, with 815,201 residents, and covers a land area of, at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs.

Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income.

Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.