Explore San Jose
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The Tech Interactive is a science and technology centre in downtown San Jose, housed since 1998 in an orange building with a blue dome designed by the Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. Visitors try hands-on exhibits, labs and design challenges on subjects such as engineering, biology and robotics, and the dome holds an IMAX theatre.
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The San Jose Museum of Art is a museum of modern and contemporary art in downtown San Jose, founded in 1969, with a collection centred on West Coast artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. It occupies the city's former main post office, a sandstone Romanesque Revival building of 1892, together with a wing added in 1991.
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The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose is a museum of ancient Egypt founded by the Rosicrucian order AMORC, which first showed its collection in 1928 and moved it in 1966 into an Egyptian-style building in Rosicrucian Park. It displays mummies, statues and everyday objects and has a walk-in replica of a rock-cut tomb.
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