Bay Area Discovery Museum
Bay Area Discovery Museum is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the northwest, 8.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Battery Duncan, a historic site 0.2 miles away.
The story
The Bay Area Discovery Museum is a children's museum located in Sausalito, California inside the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is right at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was founded in 1987. The museum is geared to children from 6 months to 10 years of age with different areas of the museum tailored to a specific age group. Children have the options of exploring the 6 different sections of the museum: Art Studios, Bay Hall, Discovery Hall, Lookout Cove, Tot Spot, and Fab Lab. In the fall of 2021, the museum completed a $20M USD renovation that included five new exhibits including an interconnected set of tree houses shaped like the nuts of the trees they inhabit.
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Wikidata Q15197659, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- +14153393900
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Battery Duncan: 0.2 mi
- Battery Cavallo: 0.2 mi
- Battery Yates: 0.2 mi
- Lone Sailor Monument: 0.3 mi
- Battery Spencer: 0.6 mi
- Slacker Hill: 0.7 mi
- Engagement Hill: 0.8 mi
- Hawk Hill: 1.3 mi
- Richardson East: 1.6 mi
- Rob Hill: 2.8 mi
- Golden Gate Bridge: 0.9 mi
- Welcome Center: 1.9 mi
- Brig Matthew Turner: 2.2 mi
- Historic Bake House: 2.6 mi
- Palace of Fine Arts: 2.7 mi
- Tiffany Park: 1.0 mi
- Southview Park: 1.1 mi
- Yee Tock Chee Park: 1.3 mi
- Vina Del Mar Park: 1.4 mi
- Gabrielson Park: 1.5 mi
- IDESST Sausalito Portuguese Cultural Center: 1.9 mi
- Greater Farallones Marine Sanctuary Visitor Center: 2.2 mi
- Marinship Exhibit: 2.2 mi
- Bay Model Visitor Center: 2.2 mi
- Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center: 2.4 mi
- Close to the Wind: 1.9 mi
- Spread the Word: 1.9 mi
- Fort Statue: 2.2 mi
- The Ordonez Gun: 2.7 mi
- Wave Organ: 2.7 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 2.1 mi
- Old Hilary's Botanical Preserve: 3.3 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary: 3.8 mi
- Aramburu Island: 3.9 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary: 4.2 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 2.5 mi
- Bicentennial Campground picnic area: 2.9 mi
- East Bay campsite #3: 3.5 mi
- East Bay campsite #2: 3.5 mi
- East Bay #1: 3.5 mi
- Compton Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Michelangelo Community Garden: 4.0 mi
- Argonne School Edible Garden and Outdoor Classroom: 4.2 mi
- Argonne School Native Garden and Outdoor Classroom: 4.2 mi
- Promenade Gardens: 4.2 mi
- Swede's Beach: 0.9 mi
- Black Sands Beach: 1.9 mi
- Schoonmaker Beach: 2.1 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 2.4 mi
- East Beach: 2.4 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 4.4 mi
- Huntington Falls: 4.6 mi
- Kent Falls: 6.5 mi
- Dawn Falls: 8.5 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 8.6 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.1 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.2 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.2 mi
- Old Spring: 3.2 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 8.1 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 0.2 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 7.8 mi
- Vent 5: 8.2 mi
- Rock Fort: 11.7 mi
- Aramai Point: 15.9 mi
- Winehaven: 8.6 mi
- Lynn: 13.5 mi
- Eckley: 21.2 mi
- Russell City: 22.6 mi
- Stokes Landing: 24.5 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 3.2 mi
- Quarters A: 6.5 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 6.5 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 3.4 mi
- Temple: 20.5 mi
- Keyhole: 21.0 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 9.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Bay Area Discovery Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | NW 320° | 784 m | 8.5 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | NW 316° | 744 m | 8.8 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | NW 311° | 527 m | 8.5 mi |
| Cardiac Hill | WNW 302° | 413 m | 8.0 mi |
| Richardson East | NW 311° | 338.6 m | 1.6 mi |
| Peak 1041 | WNW 299° | 317.297 m | 2.8 mi |
| Knob Hill | NW 325° | 285 m | 8.3 mi |
| Mount Davidson | S 169° | 283 m | 6.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:47 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:34 | 19:08 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 54 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Dwtn, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/368174120
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