Things to do / Travel Guide
Address:557 McReynolds Rd.
Sausalito, California
Tel:
(415) 339-3900
At the Bay Area Discovery Museum, your kids can create, explore, and be fascinated by this highly engaging and delightful yet educational museum. You and your children can connect with the diverse communities and cultures of the Bay Area, through this one of a kind facility. The museum, situated at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge serves over 300,000 visitors a year on its seven and a half acre campus. Children ages six months to eight years are taught here to develop their own creative skills.
The Bay Area Discovery Museum is the only museum of its kind to be located in a national park, and leads the pack of children's museums in terms of its interactivity and engagement of children, through its policy of creativity through play.
With this emphasis on creativity through play, the Bay Area Discovery Museum encourages children to develop into curious, creative, adventurous lifelong learners and explorers – without ever giving up its focus on having fun!
The museum campus is packed with fun and exciting opportunities for creative and educational play. Two studios, each tailored to different age groups, offer opportunities in sculpture, paint, and design, with constantly changing themes throughout the year. The Bay Hall is a fun recreation of the Bay Area for kids to play and explore in, with a mock fishing boat, fisherman's wharf, and a mock underwater tunnel. The Discovery Theater seats 180 children and parents, and offers a diverse selection of performing arts styles for children. Whether it's a puppet show, a circus, a dance show, or a storytelling session the whole family's guaranteed a great time!
To get to the Bay Area Discovery Museum you cross the Golden Gate Bridge, exit to Alexander Avenue and follow the signs to East Fort Baker, and the sign for the Bay Area Discovery Museum.