Take in two fascinating museums and the Google campus on a South Bay tour

A visit to the South Bay offers more than concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre. Among the area’s interesting spots are the Computer History Museum and Google’s main campus, with its new Google Visitor Experience, in Mountain View, and the Foster Museum showcasing watercolor paintings in Palo Alto. All can be seen in a day.    

Start at the Computer History Museum, which opened in 1996. Partially funded by a $15 million donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, it’s a multimedia experience that covers 2,000 years of history.