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Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum station platform, 2018
General information
Location	180 Woz Way San Jose, California
Coordinates	37°19′39″N 121°53′36″W / 37.32747°N 121.893429°W / 37.32747; -121.893429
Owned by	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Guadalupe Phase 3
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	VTA Bus: 23
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	August 17, 1990 (1990-08-17)
Services
Preceding station VTA light rail Following station Convention Centertoward Baypointe Blue Line Virginiatoward Santa Teresa
Location

Children's Discovery Museum station is an at-grade light rail station on the Blue Line of the VTA light rail system. The station platform runs along Woz Way (named after Apple founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak) and serves the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, after which the station is named. Just south of this station, the Blue Line enters the median of California State Route 87.

History

The station opened on August 17, 1990, as part of Phase 3 of the light rail system's original Guadalupe Line. It was originally named Technology Center station, after the Technology Center of Silicon Valley, a temporary museum that had just been renamed to The Garage. After the museum became The Tech Museum of Innovation and moved to a new building on the Plaza de César Chávez, the San Jose City Council proposed to rename it to "Children's Discovery Museum/Guadalupe River Park & Garden station" and "Discovery Meadows station" before arriving at a name that the VTA would approve, Children's Discovery Museum.

Notable places nearby

The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:

• Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
• Guadalupe River Trail

References

1. "VTA Light Rail System". Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. October 11, 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
2. ^ "VTA Facts: Light Rail System" (PDF). Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. November 30, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
3. Pope, Ed (April 2, 1997). "Light-rail station gets simple name". San Jose Mercury News. p. 1B – via NewsBank.
4. "Downtown San José". San Jose Convention & Visitors Bureau. October 27, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2022.
5. "Downtown San Jose" (PDF) (Map). Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. February 14, 2022. Retrieved February 18, 2022.

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