221 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Good for: Day-trip, families
Price: $8/person

Update Oct ’11: Check out the re-opening event held for local bloggers.

This is a wonderful place to take children and pre-teens with everything to do with media. You can make your own commercial in a green-room and bring in home on a DVD. Another of our favorite activities there was making our own clay figure and later using it to create a stop-motion animation, which you can also bring home on DVD or sent via email. We didn’t think it would be interesting but ended up spending 2 hours there but our animation ended up only being 3 seconds long! They also have a carousel outside.