The Creativity Museum provides hands-on arts-and-science experiences for children aged 2-12 and their caregivers. Our FutureBuilders exhibition invites visitors to tackle challenges and build prototypes with bricks, paper, fabric, and much more. Throughout the exhibit, you’ll see examples from visitors and professionals.
FutureBuilders invites you try:
- Mystery Box Challenge! A prototype is a first model of an invention that lets you test out your design. Now you’re the inventor - grab a Mystery Box and a challenge card and start innovating.
- Build The Change How can we make San Francisco more welcoming? More accessible? More friendly for the planet? Use LEGO bricks to design a San Francisco for the future.
- Emoji Making Interact with emojis in new ways by designing new emojis, mixing and matching existing emoji elements, and interpreting famous works of art using only emojis.
- ReInventions No invention is ever completely brand new. Take inspiration from current inventions to innovate and design the next (better!) version.
- Weaving Wall Weaving has been used to create shelters, clothing, and even tell stories. Use colorful fabric and your imagination to add to our community weaving.
- And more! Interactive Magna Tile walls, and DIY craft stations.
As is typical for other museums, families often spend 60-90 minutes here. Some children become so engaged in their creations that they stay all day with just a break for lunch! Families can get a hand-stamp at the front desk to enjoy in-and-out privileges all day.
Our brand new Early Childhood space is designed for our youngest visitors. Crawl, feel, explore, and play in a space designed for tiny hands and expanding minds.
In Lil’ Critter City we invite you to try:
- Telbi Intl. Airport Experiment with different objects and discover what sinks and what soars in our air tunnels.
- Fort Zump Our magnetic felt panels aren’t ordinary squares of fabric. They can be castles, or race cars, or robots. Stack, arrange, and build to bring your imagination to life.
- Birdles Park Explore our soft space for gentle play designed especially for crawlers.
- Aha Public Library Grab a book, get cozy, and dive into a good story.
- Rockto Theater Bring stories to life in the theater. Use costumes, props, and puppets to recreate a favorite book or tell your own st
All of our galleries offer art and design challenges for older children - just ask our educators for a prompt! Older children especially enjoy our Animation Studio where they can create their own stop-motion video and the Making Music Studio where they can record their own digital soundtrack.
Many family-friendly options in our neighborhood offer sandwiches, pizza, tacos, ramen, salads, boba, and more! See a listing of food options.
The Children’s Creativity Museum is located in the vibrant Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood at the heart of San Francisco. We have a high concentration of museums, culture, food, and shopping within walking distance. This Yerba Buena guide provides information on the area and local events.
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