{"id":261643,"date":"2026-04-10T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261643\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:04:39","slug":"habitot-childrens-museum-is-still-searching-for-a-permanent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261643\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitot Children\u2019s Museum is still searching for a permanent home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Two-toddler-boys-painting-at-Habitot-scaled-e1582658113653.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Inside the Habitot Children\u2019s Museum before its pandemic closure. File photo: Sara Kassabian<\/p>\n<p>Habitot Children\u2019s Museum temporarily closed during the pandemic and has been \u201ckind of homeless\u201d ever since, hosting mobile pop-up museum events across the East Bay and briefly holding a space on Bay Street in Emeryville. Now, the museum\u2019s director has formed a new real estate committee to help find a new home. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/04\/07\/snapp-shots-east-bays-habitot-kids-museum-seeking-a-permanent-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/news\/city\/berkeley-based-children-s-museum-struggles-to-find-location-after-25-years\/article_fa7dcf84-f4d4-11ef-b4f3-5b30535d502a.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley\u2019s Space Sciences Laboratory established a radio connection with the Orion spacecraft in NASA\u2019s Artemis II lunar flyby mission on Tuesday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/news\/campus\/research-and-ideas\/uc-berkeley-tracks-artemis-ii-mission-supporting-golden-age-of-space-exploration\/article_1550ec19-7589-4a03-9fa0-06730468535b.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>A naked man with a shotgun, reportedly a former rower at Yale, ran into the Berkeley Tesla repair shop on Fourth Street and was arrested Monday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleyscanner.com\/2026\/04\/07\/shootings\/berkeley-tesla-naked-man-shotgun-arrested\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Scanner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/berkeley-tesla-arrest-22196197.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SFGATE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Review of Shotgun Players\u2019 \u201cThe Goat or, Who Is Sylvia?\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/eedition.sfchronicle.com\/infinity\/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=0ff59dc4-59c8-49b8-b7d4-9180d6d1b739&amp;share=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SF Chronicle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley professors are scrambling to meet new ADA regulations. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/news\/campus\/administration\/uc-berkeley-professors-scramble-to-meet-new-ada-regulations-by-end-of-month-deadline\/article_a653a4de-1d5f-4356-a9f4-844b0cef97ee.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Cal<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>He struggled to navigate UC Berkeley when he transferred in 2016. Through a program he co-founded, he now helps first-generation and non-traditional students find community and thrive on campus. (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2026\/04\/08\/he-felt-lost-as-a-nontraditional-student-a-decade-later-hes-helped-hundreds-find-their-path\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The view from a $2.7 million Berkeley Hills home. 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