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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Step back in time and learn firsthand how the railroad industry helped shape California's history!

The main exhibit building is over 100,000 square feet and houses 21 restored train cars and locomotives. Step aboard the beautifully restored Pullman sleeping car, the dining car showcasing the many different and very specific china sets used on railroads, and even the Railway Post Office car. Head upstairs to see an impressive collectio...

The Carnegie Arts Center has changing exhibitions of art by national and regional artists year-round.

Docent tours are available by appointment and can include art activities for children in groups of 5 or more. Family-friendly activities are presented each month, and there is a schedule of ongoing art, dance and theater classes for kids, teens and adults.

There is always something new to do, to see, to learn at the Carnegie!

Pinkies up!  Children and adults alike will delight in the experience of a Victorian tea held at the McHenry Mansion to celebrate the holiday season.  Fancy dress make this event even more resplendent.

Traditional tea fare will be served, but more finicky tea taste buds can also be accommodated -- the docents have at the ready an alternate choice of pb&j and apple juice.

The seasonal tea seating ...

The Exploratorium is designed to provide children and adults with a way to physically apply sciences about which they may have only read.  The museum, located near San Francisco's Marina District, is large enough to spend most of the day wandering amongst the many exhibits.

Featured in the museum: 

• The World of Motion (Heat, Motion, Mathematics)
• Traits of Life (Life Sciences)
• Listen: Making Sense of Sound (Sound and Hearing)
• Mind (Thinki...

If the science-minded children in your house are clamoring to get out and explore, the Explorit Science Center in Davis is the perfect place to visit.

The Center is almost two museums in one.  The first floor is the Jonsson Gallery, home of the "Move It! Science in Action" exhibit.  The motion of an object and its relation to science is explained.  The second floor, or Gumerlock Gallery, is the museum's changing exhibition space.  The...