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Maritime Museum of San Diego

LOCAL LIVING RESOURCE for Residents, Visitors & Newcomers

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Visit this exciting North County children’s museum and experience a world of wonders with hands-on activities for kids up to age 10. Interactive exhibits focus on science, art, and world cultures and are separated into four distinct areas: Explore, Imagine, Experiment, and Discover. Children can set sail on the Discovery Sailboat, travel to the Kids Global Village, feed chickens in the Children’s Discovery Garden, and uncover a whole dinosaur fossil in the Base Camp dig site year round. Also enjoy the museum’s educational programming and regular events, such as daily storytelling, after-school workshops and winter, spring and summer camps during traditional school breaks.  sdcdm.org 

San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum
320 N. Broadway, Escondido (760) 233-7755

   

SPACE: Our Greatest Adventure, an educational, interactive, one-of-a-kind – and most important of all FUN! — special exhibition exploring mankind’s quest for the stars and how space exploration impacts our daily lives.

SPACE: Our Greatest Adventure is separated into four distinct zones – Welcome to the Space Age, The Race to the Moon, Life in Space Today and Our Future in Space. With hand’s-on learning experiences, selfie stations on the Moon, Mars and the International Space Station, and informative videos and smart touch screens – SPACE: Our Greatest Adventure is an immersive experience for explorers of all ages.

See the actual Apollo 9 Command Module “Gumdrop,” as well as examples of Mercury and Gemini space capsules and a complete Apollo Command Service Module. Want to land the Space Shuttle or dock it with the International Space Station? Sit in a Mercury capsule? Take a selfie in a Mars space suit or see a life-size Mars rover? Take your photo on the Moon next to an Apollo astronaut? Then SPACE: Our Greatest Adventure is for you.

SPACE: Our Greatest Adventure is free and open to the public with paid general admission to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, seven days a week, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and Residents Free Tuesdays.

Enjoy $4 off general adult admission here: San Diego Air & Space Museum

2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA
Phone: 619.234.8291

sandiegoairandspace.org

 

Birch Aquarium At Scripps

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Perched on a bluff above the Pacific and featuring more than 60 habitats of fish and invertebrates, the aquarium hosts daily animal-feeding and hands-on educational visitor activities. Birch Aquarium also offers seasonal outdoor excursions such as whale watching, grunion runs, pier walks and more. Other programs include Summer Learning Adventure Camps. Also not be to be missed are living tide-pool displays allowing visitors to touch sea stars, hermit crabs, sea cucumbers and other other unique animals local to San Diego’s tide pools.  Open year-round.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps

2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla (858) 534-3474 aquarium.ucsd.edu

Enjoy great activities and plenty of springtime fun this month, with Cherry Blossom Season, St. Patrick’s Day and Easter events, live concerts, spring camps and more! Check out all the March events in our e-newsletter here: https://buff.ly/3Ijr0Gb

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