The Exploration Place is inviting the community to check the refreshed museum.
The changes made since it’s reopening in 2022 were based off of feedback and constructive criticism from visitors.
Executive Director Alyssa Leier said the biggest feedback they got was around the removal of the Children’s Gallery.
“We worked together as a team and started writing grants and making proposals, and came up with this amazing Explorations Gallery, which focuses on STEAM education.”
“The focal point of this gallery is all these hands on STEAM fixtures, and those fixtures have started coming in now. There’s a few of them on the floor.”
Leier added that they also brought back old favourites from the previous gallery, with three more fixtures arriving in a couple weeks.
The Exploration Place is also a non-profit, needing donations to operate, introducing admission by donation every Thursday.
Leier said it’s also a way they’re breaking down a financial barrier for families.
“We came up with the idea of admission by donation on Thursdays, and that’s a day that the public can come in and pay whatever they’re comfortable paying.”
“We don’t want there to be a financial barrier keeping families away from being able to access the programs and the exhibits that we have at the Exploration Place.”
Starting September, the George Phillips Gallery will have it’s next travelling exhibit called Extreme Sports, aiming to engage kids into sports, with more information being released in the coming days on The Exploration Place’s social media pages.
More information about the changes can be found on the Explorations Place’s website here.
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