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Museum open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Drop-in Family Ceramics Workshop

10:15 a.m. every Sat.

Many of us remember coming home from our elementary schools with freshly glazed pinchpots, cups, or whatever else our young imaginations could conj...
Drop-in Art and Science Workshops

1:00 p.m. every Sat.

Each week kids and parents can participate in artistic activities that illuminate some aspect of science.
"Saturdays Are Special"

1:00 p.m. every Sat.

Ongoing weekly drop-in, hands-on art and science workshops.
Chihuahua Cha Cha

12:00 p.m. first Sun. of every month

Chihuahua lovers and owners meet monthly to chat and allow dogs to play together. Meet at the Randall Museum Dog Run on the corner of Roosevelt and...

2012 | Best Indoor Nature Fun

This city-run museum atop Corona Heights hosts a menagerie of rescued wild animals for your budding Jack Hanna. Kids can get up close and personal with a desert tortoise, a gopher snake, a hawk, two kinds of owls, and a talking raven. The miniature petting zoo includes rabbits, exotic chickens, and guinea pigs, plus kids can peer into the cross-section of a buzzing beehive. In other parts of the museum, aspiring seismologists can build Lego houses on vibrating platforms and then shake them... More »
2000 | Best Children's Museum

Founded in 1937, and located up a winding street behind the Corona Heights park, the Randall Museum is open seven days a week and has no admission fee (donation requested). A combination museum, botanical garden, and menagerie (with a permanent petting zoo), it attracts 60,000 visitors a year. The basement is the headquarters for the Golden Gate Model Railroad Club, which has a 30-by-60-foot layout depicting forests, canyons, mountains, and a medium-sized city, like a miniature Frontierland... More »

NASA Scientist Says Rocks Are Hurtling Toward Us All the Time -- But Sometimes That's Good

By Chris Torres | Tue, March 20, 2012

It's scary to think that an asteroid or comet might one day slam into Earth. It conjures images of Billy Bob Thornton sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck into space in Armageddon to nuke a Texas-size... More »
Blown Away

By : Chantal Jolagh | Wed, February 01, 2012

We San Franciscans know about wind. It forces us to wear jackets nearly all year, sends us chasing after our hats, turns our umbrellas into crash-landed mechanical birds, and makes for great kite-flying or wind-surfing. Add “makes great art” to th... More »
Glazed Over

By Chantal Jolagh | Wed, December 07, 2011

Hang out with a barn owl. Learn ceramics. Create something in a woodshop. Plant a seedling in a greenhouse. Watch a movie in a 188-seat theater. All in the same building. And you don’t have to travel far. The Randall Museum, tucked in at the base ... More »

2012 | Best Indoor Nature Fun