From K-QED.

Today's show is about the quirky museums of the Bay Area.

So, to kick things off, I went to visit a museum that I've heard a lot about but never been to.

Oh my gosh, this is so cool.

This looks like a kids science project

with a billion dollar budget.

I am at the bay model over in Sausalito. This place is incredible and maybe hard to describe,

but basically it is a giant like airplane hangar size building

filled with a miniature model of the entire San Francisco Bay.

And when I say that, I mean all the waters of the Bay that's really what is of interest here

It reminds me a lot of like a model railroad where you can kind of roam around it and admire everything in miniature.

The San Francisco Bay and Delta model is a scientific tool which simulates the bay's principal water movements. This was built by the Army Corps of Engineers before we had the kind of computer modeling software that we have today.

Scientists and engineers have used the model throughout the years to determine changes in water movement, which would result from projects like levies,

Arbor and Channel dredging, or the results of...

The bay model is just one of those places that you walk in and you kind of can't help thinking

like, what is this place?

This is Bay Curious the show from KQED that explores the Bay Area.

I'm Olivia Alan Price. Today we are celebrating the

unexpected, the small, the quirky museums of the Bay Area. We're going to take you to

two of our favorite museums that, like the Bay model, are free and also super fun.

Stick around.

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