(Berkeley, CA) June 20, 2009—
Habitot Children's Museum celebrates Family Pride Day on Saturday, June 20 from 9:30-4:30. Our Family Coalition will take and print free family portraits from 10:00am-2:00pm. Children can then frame and decorate their family portraits with glitter, ribbons, and stickers in the Art Studio. All day, children will add to Habitot’s "Family" mural, which will be on display in the museum from June 22-June 27. All visitors will enjoy interactive storytelling from books about children in all kinds of loving families, in the Reading Tent at 11:30 am and 3:30 pm. Regular admission rates apply (Children $8, Adults $7). For more information please visit http://www.habitot.org.

About Habitot:
Habitot Children's Museum is the East Bay's award-winning hands-on discovery museum for young children, recently nominated “Best Museum” in the Bay Area in Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect.com’s 2009 Parents’ Pick Awards. In 2008, Habitot won “Best Museum for Little Kids” in the San Francisco Bay Area in the same contest.

Through early childhood learning, parenting education, and community outreach, Habitot helps parents and caregivers raise curious, creative, and confident children. More than 850,000 people have enjoyed Habitot’s interactive exhibits, art programs and classes since the museum’s opening in 1998. Habitot ensures its accessibility for all Bay Area families with its Family and Community Partnerships Program, which brings more than 10,000 low-income and at-risk children into the museum every year through scholarships, subsidized memberships and free admissions days. For more information please visit http://www.habitot.org/hab/events.htm