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published on 07/01/2007
Upcoming Exhibits at Creative Discovery Museum
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Exhibit Openings at Chattanooga's Creative Discovery Museum
Sept. 22 -- Kids Like You, Kids Like Me
Oct. 27 -- Cool Wonders
Jan. 19, 2008 -- Moneyville
Long-lead media contacts: Please include these upcoming exhibits at the Creative Discovery Museum in your calendar listings. Stay tuned for full releases in the next week or two on "Kids Like You, Kids Like Me" and "Cool Wonders." If your deadline is looming and you'd like some info, let us know and we'll get you something ASAP.
Kids Like You, Kids Like Me
Sept. 22, 2007 through Oct. 20, 2007
Kids can explore assistive technologies that a child with a disability might use in their everyday activities at home, at school, and on the playground. Communicate with your family using a chose board, play basketball in a wheelchair, and "wake up" using an alarm clock that vibrates your pillow.
Cool Wonders
Oct. 27, 2007 through Jan. 6, 2008
Winter is full of fun in our annual winter holiday exhibit! When you enter this interactive environment, you’ll get to visit a cozy winter cottage, explore a winter maze, climb a mountain, and go ice fishing.
Moneyville
Jan. 19, 2008 through May 4, 2008
Where can you play the stock market, run your own lemonade stand, put your face on a million dollar bill, and see samples of currency from pounds to pesos? In Moneyville, that’s where! This exciting exhibit will have you seeing money in a whole new way.
Creative Discovery Museum is open Mon-Sat: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun: noon-5 p.m. Tickets: $8.95 for children and adults. Located at 321 Chestnut Street, in downtown Chattanooga. For more information, call , or visit www.cdmfun.org.
Creative Discovery Museum is recognized as one of the top children’s museums in the nation. It is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to educational enrichment for children ages 4-months to 12-years-old through interactive, hands-on experiences that foster creative and critical thinking. CDM focuses on a broad range of areas encompassed by Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Technology and the Sciences. In addition to its exhibits, CDM provides local residents and visitors with special events, educational programming, teacher resources for the classroom, field trips, after school programming, early childhood education classes, artist residencies, camps, art lessons, science demonstrations, and a branch of the local library. Creative Discovery Museum is a funded agency of Allied Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission.
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