# Día de los Muertos at Children's Discovery Museum > Event for families in the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara area (CA). Times are Pacific Time. - When: Sun, Nov 1 · 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM - Where: Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, 180 Woz Way, San Jose, CA 95110 - Ages: All ages - Price: Museum admission; buy timed tickets online - Organizer: Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose - Official page: https://14945.blackbaudhosting.com/14945/page.aspx?pid=196&tab=2&txobjid=19b92083-ea54-418c-8d20-862400e26c1d - Last checked: Sat, Oct 24 Source: Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. https://grassyknees.com covers 42 metro areas as of Oct 24, 2026, with more added regularly. About: https://grassyknees.com/about Freshness: listings are re-checked on a daily research run (latest check 2026-10-24), and new events are added as organizers post them. Sell-outs, weather cancellations and time changes show up on the live page first: https://grassyknees.com/san-jose/activities/dia-de-los-muertos-at-children-s-discovery-museum--listing-9059d07d04eafff2a54e3877 ## About The Children's Discovery Museum marks Día de los Muertos with a day of art, dance and procession honoring departed ancestors. Children can try sand painting with stencils and sugar-skull (calavera) painting on the first floor from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and make a Monarch butterfly mask in the LeRoy Neiman Art Studio all day. Mictlan Danza y Cultura performs traditional Aztec dance at 10:30 a.m., and Teatro Familia Aztlán leads lively Calacas processions with giant skeleton puppets through the museum at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., stopping at Lupe, the museum's 14,000-year-old mammoth. 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