Randall Museum Camps and Classes
Mather Family Camp, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114
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Randall Museum Camps and Classes include nature exploration, hikes, swimming, games, art and natural science projects, evening campfires, marine exploration field trips, and supervised play and social time. Campers take part in hands-on learning through activities such as birdwatching, meeting an animal ambassador, art activities, animal activities, woodshop, and other art, science, and STEM courses. Families can also join drop-in science workshops and Saturday drop-in art workshops, and campers have access to live animal exhibits and model trains.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Day camps when school is out of session, with summer camp sessions running 9:00am–3:00pm and each 2-week session including 2 specific classes taught by Randall Instructors
The Randall Museum states that it is more than just a natural history or science museum and focuses on the cultures and environments of the San Francisco Bay Area through an integrated program of hands-on learning and recreation in science, nature, and the arts. The program notes that camps are separated into different age groups with age-appropriate art and science activities, that admission to the museum is free, and that scholarships are available to low-income San Francisco residents. Families may pre-order healthy, kid friendly box lunches from Café Josephine or pack their own lunches, and, weather permitting, campers eat and have supervised outdoor lunch and play time at State Street Playground. The program states that children may not be left unattended at the museum, that partial attendance is highly discouraged except in cases of illness, and that repeating a camp topic is discouraged because projects will repeat, and it also notes that no before or after care is offered for Randall Summer Camps and that certain camps require a mandatory pre-camp meeting.
The program includes an overnight youth camp at Camp Mather near Yosemite National Park and offers field trip programs that allow students to explore the museum’s exhibits, with discounts for public schools. The Randall Museum describes itself as a combined natural history museum, science museum, and arts center, with labs and studios such as an Art Studio, Ceramics Studio, Woodshop, The Garage/STEAM Lab, a Natural Sciences Lab, and a Theater, along with live animal exhibits, a Toddler Treehouse, and a Collectors Corner. The museum hosts community groups including Musical Theater Works, the Mycological Society of San Francisco, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers, San Francisco Microscopical Society, and the Young People’s Teen Musical Theatre Company, and it has a land acknowledgement recognizing the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. Randall Museum Friends is described as a non-profit organization that supports the museum through strategic private-sector leadership, fundraising, administration, and volunteer coordination for museum programs, and the leadership information lists Sarah Watanabe as Camp Manager and Josephine D. Randall as San Francisco’s first Superintendent of Recreation.
Last updated June 20, 2026.
• Ages: 6–12 years old
• Schedule: Day camps when school is out of session, with summer camp sessions running 9:00am–3:00pm and each 2-week session including 2 specific classes taught by Randall Instructors
The Randall Museum states that it is more than just a natural history or science museum and focuses on the cultures and environments of the San Francisco Bay Area through an integrated program of hands-on learning and recreation in science, nature, and the arts. The program notes that camps are separated into different age groups with age-appropriate art and science activities, that admission to the museum is free, and that scholarships are available to low-income San Francisco residents. Families may pre-order healthy, kid friendly box lunches from Café Josephine or pack their own lunches, and, weather permitting, campers eat and have supervised outdoor lunch and play time at State Street Playground. The program states that children may not be left unattended at the museum, that partial attendance is highly discouraged except in cases of illness, and that repeating a camp topic is discouraged because projects will repeat, and it also notes that no before or after care is offered for Randall Summer Camps and that certain camps require a mandatory pre-camp meeting.
The program includes an overnight youth camp at Camp Mather near Yosemite National Park and offers field trip programs that allow students to explore the museum’s exhibits, with discounts for public schools. The Randall Museum describes itself as a combined natural history museum, science museum, and arts center, with labs and studios such as an Art Studio, Ceramics Studio, Woodshop, The Garage/STEAM Lab, a Natural Sciences Lab, and a Theater, along with live animal exhibits, a Toddler Treehouse, and a Collectors Corner. The museum hosts community groups including Musical Theater Works, the Mycological Society of San Francisco, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers, San Francisco Microscopical Society, and the Young People’s Teen Musical Theatre Company, and it has a land acknowledgement recognizing the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. Randall Museum Friends is described as a non-profit organization that supports the museum through strategic private-sector leadership, fundraising, administration, and volunteer coordination for museum programs, and the leadership information lists Sarah Watanabe as Camp Manager and Josephine D. Randall as San Francisco’s first Superintendent of Recreation.
Last updated June 20, 2026.
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