The University of California, Berkeley offers a great selection of educational programs and activities. Life at UC Berkeley is far more than classrooms or a curriculum.

The university is also home to a thriving and diverse selection of organizations and programs in the arts, recreation, and entertainment. There is much to do in this culturally exciting environment, where student life is enhanced by an abundance of choices that only the Berkeley campus and the San Francisco-Bay Area can offer.

Visit the links below for a general overview of what the campus has to offer.

• Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, housing 3.8 million items
• Berkeley Art Museum, with an impressive collection of nearly 7,000 paintings, sculpture, and works on paper
• Essig Museum of Entomology, caring for more than 5 million specimens
• University Herbarium and Jepson Herbarium, representing the largest collection of herbarium material west of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the largest at a public university in the United States
• University of California Museum of Paleontology, with the largest paleontological collection of any university museum in the world
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, whose collections of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are among the largest in the United States.
• University of California Botanical Garden, featuring one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States.
• Pacific Film Archive, an internationally recognized center for the exhibition and study of cinema.
• Lawrence Hall of Science, a singular resource center for preschool through high school science and mathematics education, and a public science center with exciting hands-on experiences for learners of all ages.