“What we’re trying to do is explicitly connect what we’re doing in the workshops to what good science is recommending we do,” said Ms. Fortescue, who also serves on the faculty of the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, Calif. View Press Coverage
A high-tech lab for youngsters, scholarships for doctoral candidates in the biology of aging, and jazz in the schoolhouse are among eight Bay Area winners of $900,000 in grants from the Hearst Foundations. View Press Coverage
Families turned out to the Bay Area Discovery Museum Wednesday to get personal with Marin’s first responders. The museum at Fort Baker near Sausalito sponsored Public Safety Day, a free event organized by National Parks Service, where families checked out a Coast Guard helicopter, fire equipment, ambulances and service animals. View Press Coverage
On a typical morning during the Discovery Camps, 3-year-olds get a taste of art, science and the outdoors in the Little Kids, Big Discoveries group. Pre-kindergarten students exercise their imaginations as they create costumes and stories for characters of their own creation. School-aged children design and build incredible forts, or head to Fab Lab City …
SF Gate, “Museum Camps Explore Magic of Nature, Science” Read More »
Museums attract millions of visitors and employ thousands. The Museum Life, hosted by Carol Bossert, charts the growth and development of this cultural business. View Press Coverage
On March 3, the Bay Area Discovery Museum and Center for Childhood Creativity hosted their annual Creativity Forum luncheon at the Fairmont San Francisco. This year’s event featured speaker Scott Barry Kaufman, scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Wired to Create: Unraveling …
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Finding entertaining activities for your children during the day can be a difficult task, especially with spring on the way. View Press Coverage
WHAT: Creativity Forum is the annual thought leadership luncheon presented by the Bay Area Discovery Museum and its research division, the Center for Childhood Creativity. This year’s event features psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind, who will present his latest neuroscience and psychology research on …
School may have been out on this Presidents Day, but learning didn’t take a holiday in Marin during a Lunar New Year celebration. View Press Coverage
