Sacramento Children's Museum, Rancho Cordova

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Sacramento Children's Museum is a children's museum in Rancho Cordova near Sacramento, California. The Museum is designed for children ages birth to eight. The Museum includes hands-on activities for children using pressurized tubes, artificial currents, balls in chutes to explore gravity, as well as painting and craft art activities. The museum also offers a pint-sized city for children to role play, including a miniature grocery store. The Museum is located off U.S. Route 50 in California. and was organized as a non-profit corporation in 2005 under the guidance of Kathleen Palley and Alan Godlove. The facility opened August 25, 2011 under the guidance of Executive Director Sharon Stone Smith. The museum includes 7,000 square feet of space. ()

Coordinates: 38°35'20"N, 121°17'1"W

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Rancho CordovaRancho Cordova United States

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+1 916-638-7225

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Sacramento Children's Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Sacramento California Temple, Scandia Family Fun Center, American River Parkway, Lake Natoma.

5.8 miNE
Temple
Sacramento California Temple, Rancho Cordova
147 min walk • The Sacramento California Temple is the 123rd operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The temple was the seventh built by the church in California, more than any state except Utah.
6.5 miNW
38°39'32"N • 121°21'50"W
Scandia Family Fun Center, Sacramento
166 min walk • Amusement, Amusement park, Game and entertainment center
2.5 miNW
Park
American River Parkway, Rancho Cordova
65 min walk • The American River Parkway is a 32-mile parkway that runs along the American River throughout Sacramento County, California and consists of many smaller parks and boat launching points. It can be accessed by various exits off U.S. Route 50 in Sacramento County.
6.4 miNE
Park, Lake
Lake Natoma, Folsom
163 min walk • Lake Natoma is a small lake in the western United States, along the lower American River, between Folsom and Nimbus Dams in Sacramento County, California.
5.9 miNW
38°39'37"N • 121°20'38"W
Midway Antique Mall, Sacramento
151 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre, Antiques
0.9 miNE
Greek Revival architecture
American River Grange Hall No. 172, Rancho Cordova
25 min walk • The American River Grange Hall in Rancho Cordova, California, is an 1882 wooden Grange Hall building. The American River Grange was incorporated in January 1873 and met in Fifteen Mile House until having this building built.
2.5 miW
Street
Arden Way, Sacramento
64 min walk • Arden Way is a major east-west arterial in Sacramento County, California in the United States. It is approximately 8 miles long and runs through Sacramento and the unincorporated suburbs of Arden-Arcade and Carmichael.
5.8 miNW
Street
Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento
149 min walk • Auburn Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in Sacramento County, California, United States, and a tiny portion in Placer County, California carrying surface street traffic through the local communities of North Sacramento, Arden-Arcade, Foothill Farms, Citrus Heights, and Roseville.
3.4 miSW
Universities and schools
Brighton School, Sacramento
86 min walk • Edward Kelley School in Sacramento County, California is a building first constructed sometime in the 1850s. The school has been in a district since 1858. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.