Gear Up for Summer Bash

You're invited to kick off summer in high gear
May 24 – 30

It’s finally here! Kick off summer in style at your ultimate vacation destination, the Museum.  We have all the fun you need to get ready for the best summer ever!

SPECIAL EVENTS:
 
•Spotlight Performance – The 3 Puppeteers present “Summer Time”: Kenny and the gang try to figure out something to do for the summer.  However, everywhere they go is either packed or they are too young to join in.  Come to CMH and see how they’ll create their own summer fun at the Brown Auditorium.
    oThursday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m. during Free Family Night
    oSaturday, May 26 at 2 p.m.

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES:

•Electromechanical Folk Art:  Take apart, explore pieces, and put them back together into a sculpture at Inventor’s Workshop.

•K’Nex Gears:  Gears are a simple machine that allows many everyday items to do work.  Build a variety of machines that use gears at Science Station.

•Gear Clock:  Check out how gears inside a clock make it work at Science Station.

•Mechanical Power to Electrical Power:  Discover how gears create electricity when they are turned at Science Station.

•Sun Visor:  Head to Junktion and make a colorful visor to keep your face cool and shaded all summer long.

•Silly Sunglasses:  Decorate your own pair of stylish sunglasses for summer at Junktion.

•Wind Sock:  Sock it to me and create an art piece to blow in the summer breeze at Junktion.

•Ocean Rubbing Plates:  Stop by the Alexander Art Academy and learn to identify ocean creatures by making rubbings.

***Events, times and activities subject to change