{"id":4118,"date":"2012-02-01T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2012-02-01T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:59:59","slug":"california-kids-museums-and-childrens-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-kids-museums-and-childrens-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"California Kids Museums and Children&#8217;s Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/kidsmuze.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right: Pretend City in Irvine allows children to pretend they are functioning as adults. A child takes his produce he has picked and sells it; Bay Area Discover Museum in Sausalito offers many areas to explore and lessons to learn;\u00a0 Pennypickles Workshop in Temecula features widgets and gadgets of the fictitious scientist named Pennypickle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun being a kid when there&#8217;s a museum around the bend designed just for you. Though children aren&#8217;t limited to the many museums in California that have &#8220;kids&#8221; in their name, there are some designed specifically for them. We&#8217;ve listed many but are still adding more. Of course kids can also explore wonderful museums of learning such as the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/carson-international-printing-museum.html\"> International Printing Museum<\/a> in Carson, Pez Museum in Burlingame, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/women-on-waves-at-california-surf-museum-oceanside\/\">California Surf Museum<\/a> in Oceanside or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/chico-yoyo-museum.html\">National Yo-Yo Museum<\/a> in Chico. California is a great place to live or visit if you have kids. Some of these museums invited adults, and San Luis Obispo Children&#8217;s Museum actually offers an adult tour day for big kids only!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s more information for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/california-kids-museums.html\">Kids Museums in California<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BERKELEY -Habitot Children&#8217;s Museum habitot.org<\/li>\n<li>HEMET -Fingerprints Youth Museum fingerprintsmuseum.com<\/li>\n<li>IRVINE -Pretend City Children&#8217;s Museum pretendcity.org<\/li>\n<li>LA HABRA &#8211; La Habra&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Musuem lahabracity.com<\/li>\n<li>LODI -World Of Wonders Science Museum wowsciencemuseum.com<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES Zimmer Children&#8217;s Museum zimmermuseum.org<\/li>\n<li>OAKHURST &#8211; children&#8217;s Museum of the Sierra childrensmuseumofthesierra.org<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND -Museum of Children&#8217;s Art mocha.org<\/li>\n<li>OXNARD -Gull Wings Children&#8217;s Museum gullwings.org<\/li>\n<li>PASADENA &#8211; Kidspace Children&#8217;s Museum kidspacemuseum.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO &#8211; New Children&#8217;s Museum thinkplaycreate.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO &#8211; San Diego Children&#8217;s Discovery Museum sdcdm.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO Children&#8217;s Creativity Museum creativity.org<\/li>\n<li>SAN JOSE &#8211; Children&#8217;s Discovery Museum of San Jose cdm.orG<\/li>\n<li>SAN LUIS OBISPO &#8211; San Luis Obispo Children&#8217;s Museum slocm.org<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ANA Discovery Science Center discoverycube.org<\/li>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA Children&#8217;s Museum Santa Barbara Opening in 2013 childrensmuseumsb.org<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA- Children&#8217;s Museum of Sonoma County (building a permanent facility to open in future) cmosc.org<\/li>\n<li>SAUSALITO -Bay Area Discovery Museum baykidsmuseum.org<\/li>\n<li>TEMECULA -Pennypickle&#8217;s Workshop pennypickles.org<\/li>\n<li>TRUCKEE &#8211; KidZone Museum kidzonemuseum.org<\/li>\n<li>VISALIA &#8211; ImagineU Interactive Children&#8217;s Museum imagineumuseum.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right: Pretend City in Irvine allows children to pretend they are functioning as adults. A child takes his produce he has picked and sells it; Bay Area Discover Museum in Sausalito offers many areas to explore and lessons to learn;\u00a0 Pennypickles Workshop in Temecula features widgets and gadgets of the fictitious scientist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}