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Kidspace Children's Museum company history timeline

1979

1979: Kidspace Children's Museum launched at the California Institute of Technology.

1980

1980: The museum opened its doors in the Rosemont Pavilion on Arroyo Seco parkland with "hands-on" exhibits.

1981

1981: Kidspace leased a larger and more accessible site from Pasadena Unified School District in the heart of Pasadena.

1996

1996: The Kidspace Board of Directors adopted a plan to grow the museum from a small local attraction to a major Southern California cultural and educational destination.

2002

2002: Kidspace closed its former site at McKinley School in Pasadena and began renovation of the historic Fannie Morrison Horticultural Center buildings at Brookside Park in the Arroyo Seco.

2004

Galvin Physics Forest marked the first major addition to Kidspace since opening in Brookside Park in 2004.

2010

2010: Kidspace embarked to expand its facilities by creating an outdoor physics-related area on the east side of the property.

2012

2015 - 2016: Pepper Tree Music Jam opened to the public in November 2015, as the first exhibit to be featured in the upcoming Arroyo Adventure. It marked the next biggest enhancement to Kidspace since the addition of Galvin Physics Forest in 2012.

2013

2013: The Imagination Workshop opened to the public in November 2013.

2014

2014: S. Mark Taper Early Childhood Learning Center opened to the public, May 2014.

2016

Arroyo Adventure opened to the public in April 2016.

In November 2016, Kidspace renovated Roberts Pavilion to include a dramatic and visual arts area called Storyteller Studio with four new exhibits that would give children the opportunity to express themselves through puppets, theatrical play, story books, and fine arts.

2018

Splash Dance Fountains would be the final exhibit enhancement project for the campaign and re-opened in 2018.

2020

2020: Kidspace appoints a new chief executive officer, Lisa Clements.

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1979
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