Summer STEM activities w/Hamilton College students + WCNY's Buddy the Dinosaur Train & King of Kings Basketball donations! Monday, Aug. 15th - Tuesday Aug. 23rd, a 6 foot x 5 foot cutout of WCNY's Buddy the Dinosaur Train will be in the museum for little ones to get their photos taken with Buddy's train, watch a move of Buddy & get free bookmarks! His latest movie, “Dinosaur Big City”, will air 8:00am Sat, Aug 27th & 8:30am Sun Aug 28th on WCNY channel 24.1 Monday, Aug. 15 & Tuesday Aug. 16th from 9:30am-11:30pm Hamilton College Outreach Adventure students will be in The Children's Museum to assist children in putting together several cool STEM exhibits. Children will choose from following. For children 5 & 6: Mars Rover Lego, Critter Magnets, Painting Critters. For children 7 & 8: Kits of Electricity, Solar Energy, Bug Hunt, Electric Bell, Crystal Radio. Kids 10 & up: Rock Tumbler or Rocket Robot Kit. At their games Tuesday, Aug 16th & Wednesday, Aug 17th, the King of Kings Basketball League will be collecting donations for the Children’s Museum in Utica. The Museum is run entirely off donations, as they receive no outside operations funding. Executive Director Marlene Brown will be in attendance at Tuesday’s game. Donations will be collected during the women’s league playoff games on Tuesday, games begin at 6, and during the men’s league playoff games on Wednesday, games at 6:45 & 8:15 at Notre Dame High School in Utica. Children's Museum Summer Activities Explore four floors of interactive fun! Take part in 10:30am cool activities: Monday, Critter care; Tuesday, NASA exhibits; Thursday, Dance Floor; Friday, Plane history; Saturday, Train history. Pre-register groups to get reduced admission OR signup for group programs! Summer ltr / Price pkg / Aug. event flyer. |
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at The Children's Museum! Interactive activities accompany interactive
exhibits: Included: 4th floor planes & trains & shuttles! (real
train to 'take a ride in', interactive NASA exhibits, numerous interactive
HO & Lionel trains); 3rd floor Green Room (interactive models of
solar houses & windmills, greening activities, building robot cars),
Living Science Room (feeding our cute critters & watching our bees
make honey), Legoes, Ceramic Villages w/musical light show; 2nd floor
LED Play Dance Floor, Dinosaurs, Erie Canal exhibits (artifacts &
boat wheel & video); 1st floor Exploration Station Mall, PlaySpace,
Life Size Wooden Train, interactive Saturn car, kitchen, bathrooms.
Register
w/Museum Dir.
Brown for
a unique day-long field trip to interact with the 100's of exhibits
on all 4 floors of the Children's Museum followed by a trip on the Adirondack
Science Railroad to the Utica Marsh, Canal & back.
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![]() Bd Mbr Brad assists children 'taking a ride' in our real airplane |
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![]() I weigh how much on which planet?? (amongst our NASA exhibits) |
![]() Bd Mbr Brad assists children 'taking a ride' in our real airplane |
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![]() Our ever popular 2nd floor LED Play Dance floor! |
![]() May, 2011 - school field trips enjoying a visit to the museum! |
![]() Bd Chair John Nogas, Deputy Pete & CM Dir Brown at Plant Sale |
![]() Students interacting w/Office of Science exhibits |
![]() Students enjoying NASA & Mars Rover exhibits |
![]() Checking out 3rd floor Animal Room |
![]() Iroquois Longhouse's Puzzle fun, 2nd fl |
![]() Kids of all ages enjoying interactive exhibits |
![]() Checking out the Saturn car on 1st floor |
![]() Enjoying the 1st floor grocery store |
![]() Enjoying our musical instruments |
![]() Enjoying our Bugs & Insects |
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![]() Families & kids enjoy the three floors of interactive exhibits + the train tours |
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ADMISSION: $7. children 3-17; $8. seniors; $9. adults; members & children 2 & under free (Download $1 off Coupons & Save!) And book groups of at least ten and save even more!) Hours are subject to change. (we're opening earlier due to member & educator requests, thus closing earlier)Each floor is 6,000 square feet with 100’s of hands-on exhibits. We also offer Pre-booked Group Rates: check our Program page. Museum Hours: Open: - July & August: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:15am -12:45pm, Saturday 9:15am -1:45pm; Open: - Sept. through June when school is in session - Monday, Thursday from 9:15am -12:45pm and Saturday from 9:15am -1:45pm (& some other days during school breaks & holidays– check online calendar). Open during Holiday Breaks & Winter Breaks extra days. Check our online calendar. To ensure enough time to enjoy your visit, no admissions are allowed one hour before closing time. Kitchen closes one hour prior to that day's closing. We reserve the right to close early on any given day which has no visitors in. 1st Floor: Among Exhibits: Playspace for children
under 3 years of age, Exploration Station Shopping Center; Wooden Train
for all age children; Robot Room for children six years of age and up;
interactive Saturn car, hyperbolic funnel, light and shadow exhibits,
funhouse mirrors, plus restrooms and changing tables, eating & drinking
areas As we receive no funding from the UW, CDBG, City, County, State,
or Federal Govt to support our operations, we rely solely on Admissions,
Donations & Sponsors to run our operations. Please help
us. Thanks for caring, sharing & helping us make a difference!
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The Children's Museum offerings: Our museum offers a safe, enjoyable, interactive learning environment with 3 floors of interactive exhibits, a 4th floor open one to two times a day, and eating space! Be among the educators and or families who take advantage of an educational field trip visit to the Children's Museum or programs available at the Children's Museum. Kids love and learn. Our mission is to continue the passion for making the only Children's Museum in Central New York one of the best in the country. What better place to bring...
REGISTER for visits via phone or email Director Marlene. One of the oldest Children's Museum's in the country, founded in 1963, we're the only Children's Museum in the country to have been adopted by both NASA & Dept. of Energy's Office of Science! ~ Check hrs/fees/pricing ~ View our directions ~ Email us for more information ~
Guidelines for School & Day-Care Groups Welcome to the Children's Museum. Our diverse collection of hands-on exhibits and educational programs is an invaluable resource for school groups in the Central New York area and more than 150,000 visitors a year. Enjoy your visit! To ensure the health and safety of your students and all of our visitors, we ask that you review the following guidelines with students prior to your visit to CM. Supervision of students in the Museum is imperative; unsupervised students or children should not wander around the Museum. Our guidelines are one (1) responsible adult chaperone for every six (6) students to make the most of your educational experience. This adult/student ratio is particularly important on the upper floors. General - Running is not permitted anywhere in the Children's Museum, nor is swinging on the curtains on our stage area. Portable radios, cassette, or disc players that are audible to other visitors in the Museum are not permitted. Shirts and shoes must be worn at all times while in the Museum, except for children under 5 while they are in PlaySpace. For everyone's safety, do not pet or taunt animals in our Living Science Area. Thank you for reviewing these CM rules with students and chaperones. By observing these guidelines and supervising students, you are also helping to ensure the health and well-being of our ever-growing children's museum for present and future generations. A Before-You-Visit Review Suggestion - Before you review this list of guidelines with your school group, ask your students to first list ways that the Children's Museum is different from a Park or Zoo. A partial list of rules for appropriate behavior and conduct may emerge from this discussion based on a student's experience and understanding of all that the Children's Museum has to offer. You can then review any remaining rules and guidelines on this sheet that have not been raised by your students. Traveling by Bus - Buses should drop off students at our front entrance on Main Street, by the Museum Entrance sign. After students disembark, buses may park further down Main Street or in the Parking Lot across from the Museum. Signs for Children's Museum parking are fully visible. Accessibility for Physically Challenged: We have a ramp right next to the Main entrance for wheelchairs and others who may have trouble navigating the few steps to the Museum's entrance. While we encourage groups to use our beautiful oak stairway to visit the upper floors, we do have an elevator that goes to all floors. Restrooms are available on the first floor. To pix* To top * To text
Museum Cafe': Food, Snacks, Lunches - For safety reasons, food & beverages are not allowed on the floor or in our exhibit areas. Visitors may eat bag lunches, or snacks from our vending machine, in our 1st floor Museum Café (if a group hasn’t booked it) or on benches in Baggs Square Park next door (weather pending), or on benches on covered Train platform next door. Some Saturday's we host birthday parties, so 1st Floor Cafe/Birthday room may not be available. If this is the case, individuals may eat on the bench by our back door, or on the bench out by our train, or on the benches in our park. General - Running is not permitted anywhere in the Children's Museum, nor is swinging on the curtains on our stage area. Portable radios, cassette, or disc players that are audible to other visitors in the Museum are not permitted. Shirts and shoes must be worn at all times while in the Museum, except for the under 5 children while they are in PlaySpace. For everyone's safety, do not pet or taunt animals in our Living Science Area. Museum Gift Shop Gift Shop - Our CM Gift Shop is open daily with items priced from $1. to $19. and many at only $3. or $4. Among the gifts are space science related items, our Children's Museum mug and ornament, along with a neat variety of items. Meetings and/or Tours: Welcome to the Children's Museum. Our diverse collection of hands-on exhibits and unique meeting space is an invaluable resource for groups. Book your meeting or visit today! Accessibility for Physically Challenged: We have a ramp right next to the Main entrance for wheelchairs and others who may have trouble navigating the few steps to the Museum's entrance. While we encourage groups to use our beautiful oak stairway to visit the upper floors, we do have an elevator that goes to all floors. Restrooms are available on the first floor.
For more information, call us at 315-724-6129, or email us so we can check to see if the dates you want are available.
Museum
Hours: Admission
(at the door): Group
Rates (pre-booked):
Group
Visit or Tour with Educational Program (pre-booked): LUNCH AVAILABILITY: For safety reasons, food & beverages are not allowed on the floor or in our exhibit areas. Visitors may eat their bag lunches in our 1st floor Museum Kitchen/Bday Room. LUNCH AVAILABILITY: For safety reasons, food & beverages are not allowed on the floor or in our exhibit areas. Visitors may eat their bag lunches in our 1st floor Museum Kitchen/Bday Room. SOME OF THE 100’s OF EXHIBITS in the 60 Pavilions on
our Four Floors – 4 major areas per floor: Time Frame - We book groups for a two hour Visit, which gives your group a half hour on each of our four floors. If you will be bringing a bag lunch, we'll book your group for two and a half to three hours. We'll arrange the schedule for you, and get it to you ahead of time, so you can go over it with your chaperones. Arrival times are between 9:30am & 9:45am, with departures 12:30pm or 12:45pm. (With booked Visits, you get a reduced group rate, and we provide pre & post activities and a guide / map of The Children’s Museum of History, Natural History, Science & Technology) Permanently Chartered by the NYS Board of Regents, the Children’s Museum Curriculum Enrichment Exhibits meet Scout badge requirements and NYS Learning Standards in the Arts, SS, & MST. We have 60 pavilions with 100's of exhibits on our four floors of exhibits, most interactive, Book your program today by calling 315-724-6129, or email Director Marlene Brown, so we can check to see if the dates you want are avilable. Holiday
Weeks & School Closing Hours: Check our Online Calendar for special event & holiday schedule, renovation closings, etc.
Other
Special programs offered:
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