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The California Science Center is a place that I had been many times before. Growing up in Los Angeles, it was a very popular field trip location for elementary and middle school classes. However, visiting this museum after taking this class, I had viewed it very differently. Although the museum is focused on science as its name indicates, there are many other aspects to the museum and one is the way it incorporates art.   Before you even enter the museum, you can notice the architecture and art that was involved in the creation and design of the museum. Near the ticket office right before the entrance doors, there is a big circular overhead feature. It provides shade at the entrance but it also has a very interesting design. There are small metal balls hanging from the top of it and it seems to mimic a consolation of stars. It clearly has the look of something including science but is also something that has beauty and is designed to be that way.   There ar...

Space is a place where all different forms of science come together in connection with art. Whether its mathematics, or robotics, or nanotechnology, it all plays a role in how we deal with and understand space. Space exploration in many ways influenced art and the ways it was seen in popular culture. Music, television, and movies were based on ideas about things in space that were science fiction, but also could become realities. There were shows like Star Trek and the Jetsons. There were movies like E.T., Star Wars, and Contact. And there were musicians like David Bowie who developed the idea that they were The Man Who Fell To Earth.   There is also the very clear influence in the opposite direction in this field of science with art as well. Just as we see how the science of space can influence art, there is the ways in which art can influence the science and innovation of space. In Professor Vesna’s lecture about Space and Art, she discusses Arthur Clarke and his no...