Best Museum/Learning Center by Santa Maria Sun Readers!
Santa Barbara County is not wanting for fantastic museums, bit it’s the county’s only children’s museum, the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, that beat out all the others for the top spot. It’s because the museum serves as a backbone of the Santa Maria Valley and the surrounding areas, namely families, that the museum is […]
Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum gets a new mural with help from The Art Fund, collaborators and volunteers
BY JOE PAYNE A crowd of excited art students and their families joined coordinators and volunteers to unveil the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum’s new mural on the morning of June 6. The long, high wall at the Discovery Museum displayed the efforts of 20 art students from the Santa Maria Valley’s four public high […]
The Discovery Museum welcomes families to the Kite Festival
By Joe Payne Santa Maria’s gusty winds usually results in bent palm trees and the occasional downed eucalyptus, but the powerful currents that sweep across the flat valley also inspired the beginning of the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum’s Free Family Kite Festival six years ago. The annual event brings local families, organizations, businesses, and […]
Fairy merry Christmas: Use our annual nonprofit wish list to bring a little magic to local organizations
BY SUN STAFF With the swoosh of a wand, the Sun fairy godmothers would like to help poof nonprofit wishes into reality this holiday season. And unlike Cinderella, the wishes granted won’t disappear at midnight and won’t come in the form of a pumpkin carriage and some glass slippers—unless for some reason that’s on this […]