Kidspace Children's Museum, Children's museum in Pasadena, US

Kidspace Children's Museum is a children's museum set on a 3.5-acre campus near the Rose Bowl with climbing structures, water play areas, and numerous indoor exhibits designed for children ages 1 to 10. The different zones let children learn by doing and exploring hands-on activities.

Kidspace began in 1979 as a Junior League of Pasadena project at the California Institute of Technology, where volunteers presented the prototype exhibit "Making Senses" to more than 10,000 visitors over six weeks. In 1980 it opened hands-on exhibits in the Rosemont Pavilion on Arroyo Seco parkland, built with help from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Art Center College of Design and UNOCAL. It was incorporated as a private nonprofit in 1981, moved to Brookside Park in December 2004, and opened the Galvin Physics Forest in July 2012.

Kidspace began in 1979 as a project of the Junior League of Pasadena, with volunteers presenting the prototype exhibit "Making Senses," which used robotics and neon light displays; over 10,000 children, parents and teachers attended its six-week run. Annual events have included the Rosebud Parade, a child-sized Rose Parade, a Haunted House, Critter Expo and the Eco-Arts Festival. The Arroyo Adventure area, opened in 2016, lets children handle water, rocks, mud, sticks and native plants.

The site sits in Brookside Park beside the Rose Bowl, in the Arroyo Seco; the 2004 building occupies the former Fannie E. Morrison Horticultural Center. The 2.2 acres of gardens and the nearly one-acre Galvin Physics Forest, with 13 exhibits under trees, are outdoors, so plan for sun and for children getting wet or muddy in Arroyo Adventure.

The museum's home is the former Fannie E. Morrison Horticultural Center, and the 2004 Brookside Park opening came with 2.2 acres of gardens. The Robert & Mary Galvin Physics Forest opened in July 2012, adding almost an acre and 13 exhibits under a canopy of trees.