The Escondido Children's Museum
Located at the North End of Grape Day Park,
Downtown, Escondido |
|
This image shows what you see of the
facility from the main
parking lot at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido.
Enter the lot from N. Escondido Blvd or Broadway and Woodward.
The Center for the Arts/Grape Day Park Complex features two pedestrian
entrances from the parking lot.
|
This photos shows the Art
Studio Building from the south.
Before or after enjoying the Escondido Children's Museum, visitors
can enjoy beautiful climbable sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle,
the nearby California Center for the Arts Museum,
the Escondido Historical Center, Grape Day Park,
Escondido City Hall, and Grand Avenue just two blocks to the south.
|
|
Indoor Exhibits |
 Various
structures and multi-sensory activities develop gross
and fine motor skills in 0-4 year olds with plenty of seating
room for "kids at heart".
|
The Wildlife Treehouse, funded by Qualcomm,
760 Pro Display, and the McCarthy Family Foundation, features
an amazing climbing structure with a growing array of exhibitry
on native plants
and animals.
|
Light Table Exhibit.
|
Puppet play encourages creativity
and helps develop confidence and language skills along the
way. When children get together to make a puppet show, magic
happens!
|
"Understanding the Fires" presents
information about fires to children in an educational and non-threatening
way. Special thanks to all our donors (see below) who helped
make this important exhibit possible!
|
Diverse group activities, birthday
parties and facility rental opportunities take maximum advantage
of the museum's space.
|
Natural light streams in the
northern exposure window wall of Studio One, illuminating the
exhibits and group programs.
|
Kids 0-9 years old and their
caregivers have lots of fun discovering
new things about themselves, their neighborhood, community,
region and the whole planet!
|
Outdoor Exhibits |
Part of ECM's "California Courtyard," the
Children's Garden
represents a major collaboration between the museum, Nature Designs Landscaping,
the Kiwanis Club of Escondido, and many
other donors and volunteers. Featuring plants that are either native,
waterwise or of historic importance for the region, the garden also
has a raised bed for children to participate in gardening activities.
Importantly, the Courtyard and Garden border Escondido Creek,
which makes it a lot easier to understand where water comes from
and where water goes in Escondido.
|
Adobe Ramada Exhibit.
The bricks were made by hand with clay from the base of
Palomar Mountain. Since this photo, the museum has added
signage and hands-on props to help children imagine life
during the California's Mission period.
|
The Escondido Kiwanis Club along with
the Woodworker's Club of North County supplied eager volunteer
labor to transform a new garden shed donated at below cost
from Storage Barns of San Marcos. Now completed, the "Pioneer
Schoolhouse" exhibit enables visitors to imagine life
as a pioneer in 19th Century Escondido, complete with dress-up
clothes, authentic books, maps, flags,
photos, and report cards. History is fun in this exhibit!
|
Our newest exhibit, The Science Shack,
holds a variety of hands on science experiments inlucing
a Lightning Plasma Ball, A magnification station, and miscroscopes
and slides.
|
The shade structure, sponsored by the
Las Patronas
Foundation, creates a comfortable and appealing heart to the museum's California
Courtyard.
|
Water play is one of several active, multisensory
play activities
available in the museum's California Courtyard.
|
|
Special thanks to
the following donors for their contributions to our Fire Exhibit:
Escondido City Fire, Cal Fire, City of Escondido, North County
Times, and Linda Karanewsky.
The Escondido Children's Museum has
exhibits in various stages of development. If you would like
to help create multi-sensory exhibits, please contact the Director: kragazzi@escondidochildrensmuseum.org |
| |
|
