Grand Rapids Children's Museum - Grand Rapids, Michigan - Children's Museums on Waymarking.com

The Grand Rapids Children’s Museum first made its debut as a museum “without walls” in August 1993 at Woodland Mall. The Museum featured two exhibits, Funstruction and Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles!, which were a huge success and exposed over 30,000 children and their families to “hands-on” exploration and learning.



Due to the exciting success of the museum “without walls,” Museum founders Georgia Woodrick Gietzen, Alyce Greeson, Carla Morris, Mary Smith, and Aleicia Woodrick, continued their dream to develop

a cultural and educational institution, a children’s Museum, where all programming, exhibits and events would focus on children. By the winter of 1994, the “Museum without walls” had found a home at 11 Sheldon Avenue; a building which had caught fire in August 1980 leaving it vacant until purchased by Bob and Aleicia Woodrick and Jim and Shirley Balk, who donated the building to the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum. A capital campaign was then launched to help fund the renovation of the Museum, exhibits, a two-year operating budget, campaign costs and an endowment. With the help of many generous community contributors, the campaign goal of $4 million was reached as the Museum opened in the summer of 1997. The outpouring of community support has truly made this goal a reality for the children and families of West Michigan. Since then, the Museum has seen more than 3 million guests and over 200,000 visitors annually.

In July 2017, the GRCM celebrated 20 years of learning through play with a special proclamation from Mayor Rosalyn Bliss declaring July 31 "Grand Rapids Day Of Play" in honor of the GRCM.


Admission

under 1 free
ages 1-64 $9
seniors (65+) $8
school faculty member (with i.d.) $7
active military family members (with i.d.) $7
museums for all (EBT or WIC card holder, $1.75/person, up to 12 people per card)
thursday family night (5 p.m. to 8 p.m.) $1.75

Website: [Web Link] Physical Address: 11 Sheldon Ave NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Phone #: 616.235.4726 Hours of Operation: sunday noon to 5pm monday closed tuesday 9:30am to 5pm wednesday 9:30am to 5pm thursday 9:30am to 8pm friday 9:30am to 5pm saturday 9:30am to 5pm Focus of Museum: Learning through play Directions: Not listed Parking Coordinates: Not Listed

Visit Instructions:
1. A picture of you, your family OR your GPS at either an interesting location inside the Museum or with the name or logo showing from the outside of the Museum.
2. Please answer the following questions in your log as best you can: - What sections of the Museum did you visit? - What was your experience like? - Did you participate in any programs? - What was your favourite part of the Museum? - Are there any amenities you can share? - Overall, how was your visit?

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