Silicon Valley favorites include the Tech Museum in San Jose and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

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It won the first Tech Museum of Innovation Award in 2001 in the education category.

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The Mexican tech companies showcased their products and services at a gathering at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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The American Museum of Natural History has enlisted all manner of multi-media gizmos and high-tech gadgets to bring the story of the Endurance expedition to life.

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They walked past thin columns of water at the entrance into an open space, where various objets--an oversize ceramic head and an eye-catching blue glass vessel, for example--sat among high-tech showers, whirlpools, sinks and an oval-shaped toilet, all displayed on pedestals like museum pieces, the better to bring in customers.

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