MID-Hudson Children'S Museum

“Imagination playground: using imagination playground blocks, kids build a new world every day. They make objects like animals, rocket ships and robots. Imagination playground is a mobile exhibition which means it can invite adventure anywhere! Look for this dynamic play space to "pop up" in the museum, outdoors in our pavilion, on the lawn at the park, and at local festivals. Caroline's baby park: the museum installed a dedicated space for babies and pre-walkers. Exhibits promote gross motor development and early language development. Early learning junction: early learning junction is the museum's area that promotes the development of early skills in children aged 4 and under. It features exhibits that promote the development of social/emotional skills, early literacy and language skills and gross motor skills. The exhibition was developed to promote school readiness among area youth transitioning to kindergarten. Art studio: the museum's created a new art studio space to encourage open-ended activities and creativity. It features hands on exhibits and rotating art activities. Rivertown: rivertown is the museum's imaginative play gallery. It features a market, take-out restaurant, firehouse and fix it shop to encourage learning through imaginative role play. Hyde park mastodon: the mid-hudson children's museum is proud to feature a fully intact, re-constructed replica of a twelve-foot tall mastodon that lived during the ice age. What makes this exhibit really special is that it invites children to climb up next to the mastodon from "inside a giant tree trunk and look the mastodon right in the eye - or, rather - the eye socket. The science center at mhcm: one of our newest learning spaces is dedicated to early stem education. Stem stands for science, technology, engineering and math. Exploration of these areas helps children to develop critical thinking skills and to make connections to the world around them. Link, lift, launch. With exhibits on flight, magnetism, rockets, and building, this space encourages open problem solving, collaboration and critical thinking. Children and adults will have fun linking, lifting and launching in this new exhibition. Exhibit areas feature special "challenge cards" to encourage deeper investigation into stem topics. Wonderdome: the museum created wonderdome as an immersive play space that features nine interactive sensory exhibits involving light and color. Museum guests encounter the giant reactor cube where they are invited to create light-art using brightly colored acrylic rods aimed at developing fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in young children. Two exhibits that highlight the care and intentionality behind the development of this space as a sensory zone are the light waterfall, which is a soothing, color-changing floor length strands of led fiber optics, and the tactile curtain, which invites children to scramble through a wall of noodles. Wonderdome is designed to give children, parents, caregivers and therapists more options for using the children's museum for both therapeutic and explorative play.”

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