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Top 35 Children's locations in California
byShiry
Live update: Updated July 26, 2021Copy link
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2. Bay Area Discovery Museum ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Bay Area Discovery Museum is a children's museum located in Sausalito, California inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.
3. Chabot Space & Science Center ("IDs)
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4. Children’s Creativity Museum
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5. Kidspace Children’s Museum ("IDs)
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6. The Lawrence Hall of Science
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Lawrence Hall of Science is a public science center in Berkeley, California that offers hands-on science exhibits, designs curriculum, aids professional development, and offers after school science resources to students of all ages.
7. Lindsay Wildlife Experience
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLindsay Wildlife Experience, formerly known as Lindsay Wildlife Museum, is a family museum and wildlife rehabilitation center in Walnut Creek, California. Lindsay is the first wildlife hospital established in the United States, and a popular family museum in the San Francisco East Bay Area.
8. Powerhouse Science Center Discovery Museum Campus ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryA Sacramento staple for more than 65 years, the Powerhouse Science Center Discovery Campus provides informal STEM education. Our mission is to engage and inspire people of all ages to explore the wonders, possibilities, and responsibilities of science. Through hands-on activities, you and your family can discover science together.
9. Sacramento Children’s Museum
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10. American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryAMOCA (American Museum of Ceramic Art) champions the art, history, creation, and technology of ceramics through exhibitions, collections, outreach and studio programming. Founded in 2001 and opened in September 2004, AMOCA is one of the few museums in the United States devoted exclusively to ceramic art and historic innovations in ceramic technology.
11. Arts Benicia
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryArts Benicia’s mission is to stimulate, educate, and nurture cultural life in Benicia primarily through the visual arts. This community based non-profit organization provides exhibitions, educational programs, and classes that support artists and engage the broader community.
12. Asian Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Asian Art Museum holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world holding 18,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of history. With Asia as our lens and art as our cornerstone, we spark connections across cultures and through time, igniting curiosity, conversation, and creativity. Asia is not one place. The ideas and ideals that we call Asian are countless and diverse. Some of the works we display pre-date written history. Others were recently created. Many have connections to works from other continents and other millennia. We explore these links, provoking discovery, debate, and inspiration.
13. Blue Line Arts
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14. LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – LA Plaza – celebrates the past and inspires the future by sharing the untold stories about the history, culture, values, and traditions of Mexican, Mexican American, and all Latinos in the founding and continuing evolution of Southern California. We do this through compelling and culturally enriching exhibitions, educational programs, and public programming. We’ve welcomed visitors since 2011.
15. Ocean Institute
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Ocean Institute invites you to explore the ocean’s underwater world and California’s fascinating maritime history through fun, interactive programs and family activities that indulge your ocean curiosity.
16. Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
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17. Seymour Marine Discovery Center
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18. Skirball Cultural Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Skirball Cultural Center is an educational institution in Los Angeles, California devoted to sustaining Jewish heritage and American democratic ideals. It has been open to the public since 1996.
19. The Junior Center of Art and Science
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20. Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery
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21. Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum
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22. Cayton Children’s Museum
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23. Chico Children’s Museum
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24. Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
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25. Children’s Museum of Sonoma County
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26. Children’s Discovery Museum of the Desert
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27. Children’s Museum at the Paso Robles Volunteer Firehouse
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28. Children’s Museum of Stockton
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29. Habitot Children’s Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryMuseum engaging kids ages 1-5 with interactive exhibits like a wind tunnel & face-painting table.
30. KidZone Museum
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31. Monterey County Youth Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThis colorful museum for toddlers & bigger kids features interactive exhibits with a local theme.
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32. The New Children’s Museum
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33. San Bernardino County Museum
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34. San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum
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35. San Luis Obispo Children's Museum
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