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Best Museums & Educational Spots For Kids

Discover the best museums & educational spots for kids in Nevada City.

Carnegie Museum

Carnegie Museum

Visit this great place for kids and families!

557 Lincoln St, Roseville, CA 95678, United States

Historic Downtown Truckee & Visitor Center

Historic Downtown Truckee & Visitor Center

Historic setting for shopping & dining. Shopping, dining & cultural-arts district offering a historical walking tour & scenic views.

10065 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161

Donner Memorial State Park

Donner Memorial State Park

Scenic area with trails, a lake & museum. This park offers hiking, camping, fishing, boating, the Emigrant Trail Museum & a historic monument.

12593 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161

Maidu Museum & Historic Site

Maidu Museum & Historic Site

Exhibits, tours & historic petroglyphs. This Maidu museum features interactive exhibits, tours & trails with historic petroglyphs & mortars.

1970 Johnson Ranch Dr, Roseville, CA 95661, United States

Northstar Mining Museum

Northstar Mining Museum

Visit this great place for kids and families!

933 Allison Ranch Rd, Grass Valley, CA 95949

Aerospace Museum of California

Aerospace Museum of California

Planes, spacecraft & hands-on simulators. Exhibits of planes from various periods plus spacecraft, cockpit visits & high-tech simulators.

3200 Freedom Park Dr, McClellan Park, CA 95652, United States

Gold Discovery Museum

Gold Discovery Museum

Visit this great place for kids and families!

310 Back St, Coloma, CA 95613, United States

Bernhard Museum

Bernhard Museum

Local museum in a hotel built in 1851. Museum of life in the mid-19th-century in an old hotel, with artifacts & furnishings from that era.

291 Auburn Folsom Rd, Auburn, CA 95603, United States

Placer County Museum

Placer County Museum

Local artifacts in a historic courthouse. Museum in a courthouse exploring county history, with Native American artifacts & a gold collection.

101 Maple St, Auburn, CA 95603, United States

Griffith Quarry Park & Museum

Griffith Quarry Park & Museum

Visit this great place for kids and families!

7504 Rock Springs Rd, Penryn, CA 95663, United States

Truckee Railroad Museum

Truckee Railroad Museum

Museum of local railroad history. This museum looks at how the railroad brought change to Truckee & its surrounding region.

10075 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161

Empire Mine State Historic Park

Empire Mine State Historic Park

Hiking, biking & equestrian trails. The site of this state's oldest gold mine has miles of trails to hike, bike or explore on horseback.

10791 E Empire St, Grass Valley, CA 95945

Wacky Tacky Rancho Cordova

Wacky Tacky Rancho Cordova

Visit this great place for kids and families!

11327 Folsom Blvd #140, Rancho Cordova, CA 95742

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park

Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park

Tours of a historic electrical station. Historic landmark with tours of the first distribution point for a major city's electricity (1895).

9980 Greenback Ln, Folsom, CA 95630

NorCal Aquarium and Wildlife

NorCal Aquarium and Wildlife

Hands-on animal park with rays & sloths. Up-close encounters & feeding sessions in a zoo home to stingrays, capybaras & two-toed sloths.

430 Palladio Pkwy #1801, Folsom, CA 95630

Museum of the Forgotten Warriors

Museum of the Forgotten Warriors

Visit this great place for kids and families!

5865 A Rd, Marysville, CA 95901, United States

The Square (formerly Pioneer Village)

The Square (formerly Pioneer Village)

Visit this great place for kids and families!

196 Wool St, Folsom, CA 95630

Roseville Telephone Museum

Roseville Telephone Museum

Exhibits on the evolution of telephones. Tracing changes in technology, this museum features many antique telephones & memorabilia.

106 Vernon St, Roseville, CA 95678

Folsom Prison Museum

Folsom Prison Museum

Prison artifacts in a quaint house. Prison artifacts & Johnny Cash memorabilia fill this small museum & gift shop in an old home.

312 3rd St, Represa, CA 95671

KidZone Museum

KidZone Museum

Hands-on exhibits & programs for kids. Playful children's museum offering indoor & outdoor interactive exhibits, plus classes & camps.

11711 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, United States

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