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Address:211 Maple St.
San Diego, California
Tel:
(619) 233-8792
Visit San Diego's most popular creative destination for all ages and enjoy hands-on art projects, storytelling, music, visual and performing arts!
The Children's Museum of San Diego has served more than 3 million visitors since 1981, bringing learning through the arts to events, festivals, fairs, schools and libraries, since 2002. With an assortment of dynamic, arts-based education programs and exhibits that cultivate creativity, originality and individuality, the museum is designed to engage everyone from toddlers and teens to parents and grandparents.
Visitors to the Children's Museum of San Diego can enjoy multi-cultural activities which celebrate diverse worldwide communities through hands-on art projects, storytelling, music, visual and performing arts. The new Museum, due to open in May 2008, will include a sustainable design with a three story atrium, a 17-foot concrete entrance bridge, angled "saw tooth" roof structure, tilt-up concrete panels, and a glass-enclosed elevator shaft that functions as a heating/cooling tower. Multiple galleries will provide spaces for hands-on experimentation. The museum will also house two birthday party rooms, a 250-seat theater and an indoor/outdoor cafe.