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| Established | 1916 |
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| Location | 2559 Puesta del Sol Santa Barbara, CA |
| Coordinates | 34°26′28.14″N 119°42′52.30″W / 34.4411500°N 119.7145278°W |
| Type | Natural history museum |
| Website | http://www.sbnature.org |
The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Santa Barbara, California.
It reconnects more than 150,000 people each year (including their 5,700 members)[citation needed] to nature indoors and outdoors. Nestled in nature, the museum is located along Mission Creek in the Mission Canyon area. The museum has ten indoor exhibit halls focusing on regional natural history including astronomy, birds, insects, geology, mammals, marine life, paleontology, plant life, and the Chumash Indians. It holds a research library, the John & Peggy Maximus Art Gallery [citation needed] and is the only museum to house a full-dome planetarium on the Central Coast.