Media Kit

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Permanent Exhibitions

Overview

Discovery Theatre

The new 180-seat performing arts theatre greatly enhances the performing arts curriculum and permits a full range of educational and cultural offerings.

Tot Spot

The new and improved Tot Spot offers crawlers, early walkers, toddlers and preschoolers a multi-sensory experience as they explore exhibitions themed around animal homes and habitats.

Outdoor Tot Spot

Expansion of the popular Tot Spot includes the addition of a new outdoor exploration area that will allow toddlers to explore animal habitats of the woodland, creek and meadow and make the connection between their home and the homes around them.

Art Studios

More than doubling the size of the previous Art Lab, Studio 5 (for ages 5 and under) and Studio 10 (for ages 6 and up) offer drop-in programs as well as opportunities to work with artists in a wide variety of mediums in the visual arts. Ample workspace is provided for school groups, teacher education and summer camps. The Art Studios offer special ceramics classes and drop-in labs encouraging children to sculpt and glaze their own masterpieces.

Lookout Cove

This new 2.5-acre outdoor, interactive exploration area features natural, cultural and built icons of the Bay Area including a rocky shore and sea cave, a shipwreck with clues to dig up and discover, the Golden Gate Bridge under construction, real water tidal pools, native animal homes to build, and more. The space also features five site-specific artistic works commissioned for the Cove.

Wave Workshop

The Museum’s new science lab re-creates the dynamic environment under the Golden Gate Bridge and teaches visitors how organisms adapt to live within such an environment. Part of Wave Workshop includes an area where children can conduct hands-on experiments, handle live animals and preserved specimens, explore new worlds, and learn to use scientific instruments under the guidance of science educators.

San Francisco Bay Hall

A playful simulation of the Bay Area with an “underwater” tunnel, 300-gallon sea star tank, fishing boat, Fisherman’s Wharf and shipping port.