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Special exhibition will run through May 8.  January 15, 2016, Sausalito, CA – The Bay Area Discovery Museum will open Children’s China: Celebrating Culture, Character and Confucius on Saturday, January 16, 2016. In this new interactive exhibition, families will be transported to China, a country where a quickly changing modern lifestyle intersects with ancient values. Through …

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Grant to bring engaging engineering education to pre-K and elementary school teachers in the Bay Area December 15, 2015, Sausalito, CA – Today it was announced that the Bay Area Discovery Museum has been awarded $380,000 from 100Kin10 to fund a mobile engineering lab to serve the Bay Area’s pre-K through fifth grade classrooms. 100Kin10 …

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Google to fund visits for 1,000 Bay Area kids to Museum for STEM programming, Fab Lab sneak peek November 25, 2015, Sausalito, CA – The Bay Area Discovery Museum today announced its first STEM Field Trip Day, made possible through the generous support of Google. On Monday, December 14, a day closed to the public, …

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Award from San Francisco-based social club will fund first-of-its-kind high tech maker space November 18, 2015, Sausalito, CA – The Bay Area Discovery Museum has been awarded $250,000 from Battery Powered – the philanthropic arm of the San Francisco social club The Battery – to fund the world’s first early learning Fab Lab. The Bay …

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STEM-based exhibition kicks off the Museum’s Summer of Curiosity, with special programming and expanded hours.   The insatiable curiosity of Curious George – the little monkey who has captured the imagination and hearts of millions of children and adults for nearly 80 years – comes to life inCurious George: Let’s Get Curious!, opening May 23, 2015 …

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Friday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m., the Bay Area Discovery Museum will host Playdate 2015: White to Bright at the Museum’s spectacular location at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. The annual spring gala, and largest fundraiser hosted onsite, Playdate is expected to raise $325,000 in support of the Museum’s mission to ignite and …

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