Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose
The Children’s Discovery Museum is my favorite place to go in San Jose. The building itself stands out and is easy to find. Parking is across the street under the freeway. When you enter you are greeted with a (nearly) life- sized fire truck that you can climb on, an intersection with actual stop lights and crosswalk, and an ambulance that you can also climb through. There is a whole section on bubbles, there’s face painting, and an area for the younger kids full of things to explore at just their height. There are too many cool hands-on exhibits to mention, but let me also mention the water play area really rocks. Of course there are aprons available to keep the kids’ clothes relatively dry, but I know my kids wouldn’t go for wearing aprons so try to save this part of the museum for last. It is, of course, water play (an area for bigger kids and a separate one for younger kids) but they also get to experiment with tubes and hollow balls and see the relationship between water, air and pressure.
There’s a decent lunch cafe if you can stay for a good chunk of time. There is a nursing chair in the changing station, which is semi-private. There are certainly enough activities for several hours worth of fun, but also they have food and good facilities to make spending half a day very doable. I have a hard time finding a place that offers as much as this museum.
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