Let us bring our museum to you!
Van Go!
The mobile Sacramento Children’s Museum is a school outreach program where Museum educators come to your school and transform your classroom or multipurpose room into a mini museum. Each session begins with a brief introductory lesson followed by exploration and play time at several hands-on activity stations. Please see each program description for the recommended grade level.
NOTE: Van Go is fully booked for the 2024/2025 school year and is taking a break for the summer. Reservations for the 2025/2026 school year will be available in August.
Programs for Grades TK-3
Building & Engineering
Design, build, test, and tinker! Students will immerse themselves in the engineering process of prototyping while working with various large- and small-scale building kits.
Recommended for grades TK-3.
Color Lab
Play with color! Students will look, play, and create with color in several hands-on activities, including an art project, color mixing, and our colors in motion wind tunnels.
Recommended for grades TK-1.
Emotion Explorers
As an emotion explorer, you will go on an epic SEL journey! Students will learn skills to release negative emotions, curate positive feelings, create a special memento, and practice empathy through art.
Great for all grade levels.
Sound Explorers
Get ready for a boisterous session of hands-on exploration of sound and music! Students will touch, feel, and play a variety of instruments. Each student will make a take home music maker.
Recommended for grades TK-1.
Mission: Imagination Challenge
Your mission: to challenge your creativity and building skills while learning about the engineering design process. Students work in collaborative groups to solve a problem with a mystery box of supplies. Challenges can be tailored to meet specific content standards.
Recommended for grades 1-3.
Note: There is an additional $25 per class for supplies for Mission Imagination Challenge.
Reservation Information
SCM Van Go programs for the 2025/2026 school year can be booked for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays on a first-come, first-serve basis. Each session runs approximately 1 hour long, and we can accommodate up to 28 students per session. Only our Building & Engineering and Mission: Imagination Challenge programs can accommodate additional students; A fee of $7 per student will apply for any additional students, up to a maximum of 10. Please state how many extra students you have in the notes of your reservation or through email.
We can accommodate up to 4 sessions in one day within these guidelines:
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- We are legally required to take a 30-minute lunch break after the second session (this is only required if you are scheduling 3-4 sessions). No exceptions.
- It works best to set up in in one classroom, Multi Purpose room, or Library space for all sessions to decrease set-up and take-down times. If that is not possible, please let us know at the time of booking.
- If you are scheduling for any time after 10 am, we ask that there is a parking spot reserved for us to streamline set-up.
Reservations are not guaranteed until payment is received in full.
NOTE: Van Go is fully booked for the 2024/2025 school year and is taking a break for the summer. Reservations for the 2025/2026 school year will be available in August.
If you have any questions, please email us at vango@sackids.org.
Cancelation and Refund Policy
Refund requests made up to 7 days prior to the reservation date will be subject to a $25 processing fee. Refund requests made less than 7 days prior to the reservation will be subject to a $50 processing fee. No refunds will be issued for requests made less than 48 hours prior to the reservation date. You may request that the original reservation be rescheduled to a future available date at no charge.
Pricing
- 1 session (60 minutes) – $350.
- $250 for any additional sessions (up to 4)
- 2 sessions- $600
- 3 sessions-$850
- 4 sessions- $1,100
- $250 for any additional sessions (up to 4)
- We require a travel fee of $1 per mile for any schools, libraries, after-school programs, or day-care centers that are further than 25 miles away from the Museum.
- We do not offer Title I discounts at this time.