Oakland Museum of California

The Oakland Museum of California will create a space inside its newly renovated Gallery of California Natural Sciences dedicated to intergenerational exploration and learning for visitors ages two to five and their adult companions. Through the Family Nature Play Room and related components, the museum will better serve a newly developing, but regularly attending, audience with science and nature-related learning. Project activities will build staff capacity to serve families with young children, use collections and specimens in new ways to promote family learning and discovery, and prototype an early childhood space and exhibition components for possible replication within temporary exhibitions or within the Galleries of California Art and History.