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Creative
Discovery Museum
Core Exhibit Fact Sheet
You
Have Got to See These Exhibits!
The Museum encompasses six core exhibits that include art,
music, science, technology, water power, climbing, simple
machines and a specially designed playspace just for toddlers.
Climb
Up to the Rafters
Captain a riverboat, sail boats through a lock and dam system,
climb up to a crow’s nest and touch the ceiling. Your
little adventurer can do all this and more in RiverPlay. Kids
can inch their way up a two-and-a-half story climbing structure,
spin down a spiral slide, whirl a fan to make a kite fly,
build boats and sail them down an interactive watercourse,
use jets of water to make a whirligig spin, or pilot a kid-size,
play-aboard riverboat where kids can dress-up like a Ship’s
Captain and other fun characters.
Paint,
Perform, Dance and Drum!
Kids can find their artistic side in Arts Alley. Children
can explore the Art Studio side to experience rubbings, sculpting
and computer art. A self-portrait studio gives children a
chance to use mirrors to draw themselves. They can take pictures
for computer self-portraits in pivotal artistic styles: expressionism,
impressionism, surrealism, pointillism, cubism and pop art.
The studio includes a workshop area where children can take
art lessons and create their own works of art. In the Music
and Performing Arts Studio side, take a deep breath while
your kids show off and make even more noise than usual. Children
discover that everyone can enjoy music as they experiment
with different types of instruments, some of them imaginary.
Then they can dress up and put on a show in the Back Alley
Theatre, or watch themselves dance the day away in the shadow
room, where movement turns into video art for all to enjoy.
Dig
for Bugs, Bones and Boulders!
Grab a brush and send the kids to dig! Children slip between
the legs of a life-size T-Rex skeleton to enter Excavation
Station, where they are introduced to the creative methods
and scientific processes involved in discovering and analyzing
bugs (Entomology), the fossil remains of dinosaurs (Paleontology)
and rocks (Geology). Be on the lookout for three kinds of
dinosaur bones – Albertosaurus, Gryposaurus and Eucentrosaurus
– and living bugs crawling around in a cave. Your kids
will learn all about how scientists discover what’s
underneath our feet.
Fun
Goes Sky High!
Kids will have a ball while they learn about simple machines
when they play out on the roof in our new Rooftop Fun Factory.
Kids can lift themselves off the roof with pulleys, use a
lever to shoot balls through a cage, make a beautiful melody,
blow bubbles off the roof, crank a sphere up a tower and watch
it fall back down again, and spin themselves around an Archimedes
Screw.
Invent
Stuff That Works!
Well, take it apart at least. That’s how your kids will
get inside an inventor’s head to see how all kinds of
inventions work. In the Inventors’ Clubhouse children
discover how electricity is produced and build robotic cars.
Kids experience the magic of magnets and send messages through
a vacuum tube. This core area teaches your children all existing
tools, machines and gadgets were created by human beings who
began with problems that needed to be solved -- and reminds
them that they, too, are capable of inventing new things that
could improve the world.
Hide
in a Tree!
By now you need a breather. The Little Yellow House gives
little ones (18 months to 4 years old) a fun Creative Discovery
Museum experience at a pace and scale they can enjoy. Children
can climb into a tree house and play in a fully equipped discovery
kitchen, tinker in the Little Yellow Garage, or take a ride
in the little red sports car. This pretend and play space
for toddlers is the perfect setting to spark a child’s
instinctive curiosity and imagination.
Learn
New, Different and Amazing Things About the World!
That’s what happens in our constantly changing Temporary
Exhibit Galley on the second floor. Every three or four months
the Museum brings in a new exhibit from other museums from
around the United States. Kids can learn about literature,
other cultures, weather, comics, toys and lots of fun and
fascinating topics, all in a unique, hands-on style that’s
best for kids.
Other
features include a three-story interactive Lookout
Tower containing visual learning experiences and a live bee
hive, the plaza with sculptures of children engaged in investigative
activities, a 3-D optics Barsamian Sculpture, an auditorium
with ongoing science demonstrations and programs, and classrooms
for courses and workshops. It also has a Museum Shop filled
with educational toys and a Cafe.
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Creative
Discovery Museum is a private, non-profit organization dedicated
to the enrichment of children through interactive, hands-on
experiences that foster creative and critical thinking. Memorial
Day through Labor Day, the Museum is open every day of the
week, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. September through February, it is
closed Wednesdays; open Sundays noon to 5 p.m.; and open 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. all other days and on national holidays. March
through May, the Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through
Saturday and open Sunday noon to 5 p.m. The Museum is closed
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. Ticket
prices are $7.95 for adults and $6.95 for children ages 2
to 12. The last ticket is sold one hour prior to closing.
Family memberships are $60 for a full year of unlimited visits.
Call 423-756-2738 for more information.
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