Museums
Ages: 6 and up
Any Peanuts fan will enjoy a trip to Santa Rosa's Charles M. Schulz Museum. This museum showcases years upon years of the daily comic featuring Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and all the Peanuts gang.
Mr. Schulz's studio, tools, and memorabilia are on display in the permanent gallery upstairs while other exhibits rotate through the lower level of this beautiful and modern museum.
The museum welcomes all ages, but Miss Birdie bel...
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The Chabot Space & Science Center is located high on the tops of the Oakland Hills, a perfect spot to take advantage of the Center's telescopes, which are the largest research-quality telescopes open to the public west of the Mississippi.
The 86,000 square foot center features interactive space and science exhibits, digital dome planetarium shows and MegaDome shows. For a list of the center's current exhibits, click here, and for a ...
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Park admission is listed above, but train excursion tickets are priced differently. For train excursion tickets, expect to pay $15 for adults, $8 for youths ages 6-17, ages 5 and under ride free. If purchasing train tickets, the park admission is included in this fee.
more»Ages: 6 and up
The Tech Museum sits in the heart of Silicon Valley, the tech-based business mecca of California. With over 250 hands-on exhibits in five themed galleries, The Tech Museum's goal is to inspire the innovator within each visitor. Exhibits include piloting a robotic dog, floating in a space-age jet pack, designing roller coasters, producing movies, creating webpages, controlling computer-generated avatars, understanding power as gener...
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It's not hard to picture Yosemite National Park in your mind's eye. It's easy to imagine a place of thundering waterfalls, granite crags, towering trees and beautiful wildlife, hundreds of acres wide thanks to the millions of photos taken of this beautiful place; however, it's not until you find yourself there, in the valley or on a trail, taking it all in, that you can really experience Yosemite.
From Modesto, Yosemite is only...
more»Ages: 3 and up
Columbia State Historic Park — once a bustling, brawling gold rush town — sits at an elevation of 2,100 feet amongst the oaks of the Sierra Nevada foothills. In the mid 1800's, the town of Columbia was one of the largest cities in California, attracting people from other US states as well as other countries with promises of gold. In fact, between 1850 and the early 1900s, as much as $150 million in gold was mined in Columbia.
As dep...
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Formerly known as Zeum, the Children's Creativity Museum uses multimedia technologies to nurture creativity and communication in children.
Interactive exhibits explore animation, digital arts and music videos, among other things, and nearly each of those hands-on activities can be captured and kept for prosperity. The super helpful employees of the museum will help visitors burn a copy of a stop-animation sequence to DVD, or email ...
more»Ages: 0 and up
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is home to over 550 species of sea life and has been a pioneer in rescuing and rehabilitating such life for over 25 years.
The daily activities — Kelp Forest feeding, penguin feeding, sea otter feeding, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's presentations — are anything but regular. Because live animals are involved, visitors are never viewing the same event twice.
Children will enjoy the interactive ...
more»Ages: 2 and up
2013 Dates
- June 7th, 7pm parade
- June 8th, 9am-5pm
- June 9th, 9am-3pm
The North Modesto Kiwanis Club presents the 14th Annual Graffiti Weekend. The fun begins Friday night at 7pm with the Classic Car Parade in downtown Modesto. George Lucas will officiate as Grand Marshal!
If you miss the cars Friday night, you can still check them out all day Saturday and Sunday at MJC West Campus. While you are at the festival check out the unique cra...
more»Ages: 4 and up
Located within San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, The California Academy of Sciences is the only place on the planet where you'll find an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a four-story rainforest under one roof.
Explore a swamp; become an African animal expert; count the number of teeth on an albino alligator; step into the humid, 82 degree glass-encased rainforest, complete with glass elevator to see plants an ani...
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