This state-of-the art, interactive exhibit hall (popularly known as The Tech) is designed to encourage the spirit of innovative curiosity, characteristic of the original techno-tinkerers of Silicon Valley. On the Upper Level, exhibits in Life Tech in..

The meticulously landscaped 6.5 acres, built in the early 1960s, are modeled after Korakuen Garden in Okayama, Japan, San Jose's sister city. Paths wind past stone lanterns, a small pagoda and a variety of flora, including flowering cherry trees and ..

This 14-acre complex, with paved streets and a running trolley, evokes life in San Jose around the turn of the century. The park comprises some two dozen historic homes and shops, a third of which are re-creations; the remainder were relocated from t..

Housed in a whimsical purple structure (1991, Ricardo Legorreta) that resembles building blocks, this bilingual (English-Spanish) museum dominates Guadalupe River Park. Hands-on exhibits and programs are geared to families and school-age children. Hi..

Ensconced amid the modern structures of downtown, an early-19C adobe and a luxurious Italianate mansion recall San Jose's Spanish Colonial beginnings and its early-19C growth.Erected for Thomas Fallon, a flamboyant former guide with the Frémont party..

Modeled after the Temple of Amon at Karnak, the museum features one of the most extensive displays of Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts on the West Coast, numbering some 5,000 pieces. Note in particular the display on mummification (gallery A), wit..

This strange, rambling 160-room Victorian hodgepodge is the creation of Sarah Winchester, widow of rifle magnate William Wirt Winchester. After purchasing an eight-room San Jose farmhouse in 1884, she added to it compulsively until her death in 1922...