Registration for 2025 Spring Break + Summer Camps opens on Tuesday, January 28, at noon.
More information is coming soon!
Explore Our Camps
Friday, February 14, 2025 - Friday, February 14, 2025
Looking for a fun way to spend Valentine’s Day? Explore circuits and new tinkering techniques to make a one-of-a-kind, light-up Valentine. Blend hands-on, playful creativity with innovative science to engineer a masterpiece.
Monday, March 3, 2025 - Monday, March 3, 2025
Cardboard is amazing! Explore new tools + techniques to make creations that will bring this versatile material to life through automata, motors, and inventive mechanics. The finished product will inspire creativity and curiosity long after this one-day camp ends.
Monday, March 24, 2025 - Friday, March 28, 2025
Step into the spotlight to make your own short film! Get creative with storytelling, tinkering, and digital innovation to transform an idea into a video short. Explore narrative styles, hands-on making, film techniques, and digital tools to bring your story to the big screen.
Monday, June 16, 2025 - Friday, June 20, 2025
Planes, trains, boats, and cars! Explore things that float, roll, and fly as you help MOXI friends on their adventures. Build cars to race, design paper airplanes, and float handmade boats. Get inspired by the people who keep us moving with field trips to the train station and the harbor.
Monday, June 23, 2025 - Friday, June 27, 2025
Planes, trains, boats, and cars! Explore things that float, roll, and fly as you help MOXI friends on their adventures. Build cars to race, design paper airplanes, and float handmade boats. Get inspired by the people who keep us moving with field trips to the train station and the harbor.
Monday, June 23, 2025 - Friday, June 27, 2025
Ahoy Mateys! Set sail with MOXI and delve into the wonderful world of pirates, underwater creatures, and sea explorers. With your crew, explore buoyancy, build cardboard ships, and use the world around you to find your way. Put those navigation skills to the test in an epic scavenger for MOXI’s secret treasure.
Monday, June 30, 2025 - Thursday, July 3, 2025
Ahoy Mateys! Set sail with MOXI and delve into the wonderful world of pirates, underwater creatures, and sea explorers. With your crew, explore buoyancy, build cardboard ships, and use the world around you to find your way. Put those navigation skills to the test in an epic scavenger for MOXI’s secret treasure.
Monday, June 30, 2025 - Thursday, July 3, 2025
Your mission: Use creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to help keep MOXI’s Top Secret Exhibit Plans under wraps! Join MOXI’s Spy Training Academy and help solve mysteries by working with fellow spies to crack secret codes, engineer traps, and develop techniques to cover your trail.
Monday, July 7, 2025 - Friday, July 11, 2025
Your mission: Use creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to help keep MOXI’s Top Secret Exhibit Plans under wraps! Join MOXI’s Spy Training Academy and help solve mysteries by working with fellow spies to crack secret codes, engineer traps, and develop techniques to cover your trail.
Monday, July 7, 2025 - Friday, July 11, 2025
Become a MOXI Certified Maker in fiber arts by learning how to sew, knit, felt, weave, and more. Use threads, fabrics, and creativity to create a product, build your brand, and embrace your entrepreneurial spirit in the exclusive Makers Market – open to friends, families, and MOXI staff.
Monday, July 14, 2025 - Friday, July 18, 2025
Become a MOXI Certified Maker in fiber arts by learning how to sew, knit, felt, weave, and more. Use threads, fabrics, and creativity to create a product, build your brand, and embrace your entrepreneurial spirit in the exclusive Makers Market – open to friends, families, and MOXI staff.
Monday, July 14, 2025 - Friday, July 18, 2025
Transform MOXI into a classic arcade by designing and building your favorite games from scratch. Create your own pinball, keyboard dance games, or arcade controller video games using the engineering design process, inventive mechanics, circuitry, and coding.
Monday, July 21, 2025 - Friday, July 25, 2025
Step right up to MOXI’s Midway! Design and build classic carnival games, including mini golf, ball-toss, and more, using mechanics and the engineering design process. Explore the science behind time-honored games of skill.
Monday, July 21, 2025 - Friday, July 25, 2025
Hear ye, hear ye! Something is awry in the kingdom of MOXI, and you can restore harmony and rebuild the realm. Rise to the challenge by taming and befriending mystical creatures, learning the science of sorcery, the chemistry of potions, and more.
Monday, July 28, 2025 - Thursday, July 31, 2025
Hear ye, hear ye! Something is awry in the kingdom of MOXI, and you can restore harmony and rebuild the realm. Rise to the challenge by taming and befriending mystical creatures, learning the science of sorcery, the chemistry of potions, and more.
Monday, July 28, 2025 - Thursday, July 31, 2025
Calling all chemists! Are you intrigued by the ooey, the gooey, the slimy, and sticky? Or things that snap, fizz, and pop? Do you often ask, “I wonder what would happen if….?” Don’t miss a week of laboratory fun with messy mixtures, giant bubbles, special slimes, and (carefully monitored) explosions.
Monday, August 4, 2025 - Friday, August 8, 2025
Calling all chemists! Are you intrigued by the ooey, the gooey, the slimy, and sticky? Or things that snap, fizz, and pop? Do you often ask, “I wonder what would happen if….?” Don’t miss a week of laboratory fun with messy mixtures, giant bubbles, special slimes, and (carefully monitored) explosions.
Monday, August 11, 2025 - Friday, August 15, 2025
Calling all chemists! Are you intrigued by the ooey, the gooey, the slimy, and sticky? Or things that snap, fizz, and pop? Do you often ask, “I wonder what would happen if….?” Don’t miss a week of laboratory fun with messy mixtures, giant bubbles, special slimes, and (carefully monitored) explosions.
Monday, August 4, 2025 - Friday, August 8, 2025
You have been officially accepted into the MOXI Academy of Wonder and Wizardry! Create wands to cast your own spells using the science of sorcery, experiment with the chemistry of potions, explore the magic of magnetism, and keep the Academy safe from mystical mayhem.
Refund Policy
Standard Refund Policy
All requests to cancel participation in a camp must be made in writing to camps@moxi.org. Cancellations requested up to one month prior to the camp start date will receive a 90% refund. Cancellations requested up to 2 weeks before the camp start date will receive a 50% refund. Cancellations requested less than 2 weeks before the camp start date are not eligible for a refund.
MOXI Camp
Frequently Asked Questions
What should my camper bring?
- Comfortable and weather-appropriate clothing you wouldn’t mind getting dirty
- Comfortable closed-toe shoes
- Lunch and snacks
- Backpack for carrying everything
- Water bottle
- Sunscreen
What Not to Bring
- Phones or smart watches
- Toys or other valuables
Optional
- Medication (in its original container)*
- Sunglasses
- Hat for additional sun protection
Campers will be given a camp t-shirt upon arrival and be asked to wear it for the duration of camp.
Additional shirts are available for purchase ($20).
*MOXI staff cannot administer camper medication
What should I expect from other campers?
There will be 16 campers at each MOXI session. We expect campers to get along, occasionally split into groups, and work together in teams for most of the day.
What does lunch look like for MOXI camps?
Lunch takes place off-site every day at a local park (Ambassador Park and Chase Palm Park) and at the beach near the Santa Barbara Wharf.
Campers are escorted from the museum to the park by volunteers and CPR-certified Camp Counselors equipped with emergency contact information, a first aid kit, radios, and extra supplies.
Campers are encouraged to bring their lunch, water, and sunscreen with them every day and are invited to play a number of different games and activities.
What communication should I expect before + during camps?
MOXI Camps will send an email the Monday before, the first day of camp, and then on the last day. Texts will be sent the Friday before and Thursday.
How do MOXI Camps handle behavior management?
Camp staff will maintain safety, stay calm, and help regulate and keep all campers safe (physically + emotionally). MOXI does not tolerate bullying of any sort. A primary care/pick up person will be contacted if we experience behavior issues of any sort.
What qualifications do MOXI camp staff have?
High School graduates, trained in CPR + First Aid Certified, with previous experience working with kids.
Contact Information
Leah Forester, Camps + Outreach Manager
leah.forester@moxi.org / (805) 770-5010
Kyle Dent, Camps + Outreach Coordinator
kyle.dent@moxi.org / (805) 845-6149
Camps Team
Our camp staff is often quite busy during the camp day, if your matter is urgent, please contact MOXI’s front desk, (805) 770-5000, or the camp text-line (833) 676 –4849 and they can connect you to a camp team member.
MOXI will notify the primary contact via email or phone in the event of significant changes to the camp schedule. In an emergency, staff will reach out via phone.
Please make sure MOXI has the correct email and phone number on file for your camper’s primary contact.
