(Photo courtesy of The Children’s Museum of Central Oregon)
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 10a-4p 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.
