The Children’s Museum of Central Oregon (CMCO) will host their first pop-up museum in a series of three: Spring into Spring, a day of family fun, on Saturday March 19.
The Spring into Spring pop-up museum will feature science demonstrations and creative projects focused on the spring season and mechanical springs. Activities include: flower dissection, flower press, egg blowing, catapult building etc. Admission to the event is free and open to all ages from 10am–4pm.
Spring into Spring is a fundraising event for the Children’s Museum of Central Oregon’s capital campaign. The $3 million Capital Campaign is set with established benchmarks at $50,000, $500,000, $1 million and $1.5 million and will focus on raising funds for securing a physical space, building out the museum space, operation for two years and creating the foundation for a stable and permanent fixture for the Central Oregon community.
CMCO intends to secure an approximately 40,000 square foot space close to the downtown area. The space will include a children’s theater, hands on science exploration hall with changing exhibits (the MESS hall: Math, Engineering, Science and Stuff), a clay room, a creative painting room and a large “free choice” play area.
Included in this vision are two classrooms to host pre-school through middle school classes, and three open rooms for rentals for special events and birthday parties. Services provided to the community would include a full time educational staff that will work in the community, camp programming, and programs in performance art, studio arts, science, engineering, inventing/making for 4- to 12-year-olds.
Two more pop-up Museums are scheduled for May 14 and July 16; both at Armature from 10am-4pm with free admission.
For more information visit childrensmuseum.co. Armature is located at 50 SE Scott St. in Bend.
The mission of the Central Oregon Children’s Museum is to serve as a place for children to create, explore and investigate their world through immersive hands on experiences, and as a resource for families of all types to grow and learn together. To be a space that serves the individual families and the community as a whole—investing in our youngest community members and helping to develop creative, engaged and critical thinking global citizens.
Kayla P. Wopschall, Ph.D., Children’s Museum of Central Oregon, 206-947-0576
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