“My child is obsessed with space right now so the rocketship, mission control, and rocket launcher were big hits, not to mention the astronaut costumes and helmets!”
Get TicketsHabitot’s Space Station Experience is a STEM-embedded hands-on discovery play experience that will inspire a new generation of astronauts! Kids will don astronaut suits and helmets and pilot the Rocketship while budding space engineers will manage the command center at Mission Control. Challenges in space include making repairs outside the rocketship, navigating the space voyage, and fueling the ship for their chosen destinations.
There’s even more play and learning in our Art Studio, an Imagination Station for more maker projects, and a Sweet Stars area just for babies.
We’re grateful to CenterCal Properties for making our temporary space available and to the Institute for Museum and Library Services for funds to create the Space Station exhibit.
Habitot will be temporarily closed for two weeks beginning May 18 while we bring in a new exhibit. Stay tuned for re-opening date.
Come to our Bay Street, Emeryville location Saturdays at 9:30am to experience the wonder of live puppet theater with a different puppet master every week. Stories and themes are geared for young children. $15 per child includes museum admission afterwards. Adults (free) must remain present.
April 6: Caterpillar Puppets presents The Itty Bitty Variety Show
April 13: Jelly Jam Time presents The Muffin Man
April 20: Magical Moonshine Theater presents Little Elephant Has A Ball
April 27: Puppet Art Theater Company presents Three Billy Goats Gruff
Join us every Sunday morning in April at 9:30am for adult-child music and movement classes with Ms. Alayna. Ms. Alayna fuses her love of story, songs, movement, and puppetry into a Playdate Party for little ones and their caregivers. Come along and join the fun! $15 admission per child; includes museum admission afterwards. Adults must remain present. Pre-register below; walk-ins with space available.
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Children are $15 and adults are free with a paid-for child. Children under 12 mos old are free when accompanied by a paid-for sibling. Pay at the door or get advance tickets on Eventbrite. Habitot participates in the national Museums for All program, a voluntary, unfunded access program for high need audiences. Families holding EBT/SNAP cards with photo ID are admitted for $3 per child.
One Friday night each month, parents are invited to drop the kids 2-8 years old at Habitot’s Bay Street location for an evening of exploration, art, play, and making! Pizza/juice box dinner included. More info and registration is handled though Eventbrite. Click HERE for the upcoming PNO. $45 per child/$35 siblings.
Groups of up to 25 preschool-aged children are welcome with one chaperone for every six children from 10:00am -2:00pm at our Bay Street location on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Please contact Andrea at reservations@habitot.org to schedule your preschool-aged group now. $15 per child over 12 months with a $160 minimum fee.
Interested in renting the Space Station Experience for a Birthday Celebration or Private Party? More info HERE.
We’ve re-created our popular Art Studio from our Berkeley location that thousands of children enjoyed over the past twenty+ years.
Every week, we’ll offer a different art-making activity like spin art, watercolor painting, collage, puppet-making, Gelli printing, playdough & sculpture, and more messy play that young children can’t get enough of and that we know builds kindergarten readiness skills.
Who doesn’t like drawing on a giant wall? Make a mural with our colorful, dustless chalks.
If kids can imagine it, they can design it, invent it, and build it! The Imagination Station provides lots of loose parts and permission to build from their imaginations. Suggestion cards like build a “bed for a mermaid” will challenge kids and give them a starting idea.
Children can build their own rocketships from tubes, paper cones, and lots and lots of tape, then test their designs out in our air-pressurized Rocket Launcher.Wonderful parent-child activity.
Space vehicles come and go from the intersteller space station and cruise across lunar landscapes in our space-themed train table.
Children under 12 months (babies and early walkers) enjoy an enclosed space with a soft constellation carpet to crawl around on, a space-themed felt wall to practice fine motor skills on, and a colorful planet ball pit for jumping and rolling in.
