(It’s the most fun you can have at the same time you’re having a really bad hair day.) There are exceptions – including the hurricane simulator, which, after you step inside, boasts winds whipping up to 80 mph. (And, of course, nostalgic locals can always drive to Southern Utah to revisit their favorites.) "I love the fact that we have found a partner museum that needs what we have," Quinn says. Instead, the exhibits will be donated to a new start-up children’s museum in St. Which means that almost all of what is still on display at the original Discovery Museum won’t be making the transition, Quinn says. The exhibits making the big move from the current museum to the new space are already off the floor and being refurbished, she notes. (Leela’s visiting her grandfather in Las Vegas along with her mom, Faye Bradbury, and her 5-year-old brother, Frank Anderson.)ĭespite its popularity with young museum visitors, the Green Village "didn’t fit the new space," Quinn says. "The Smith’s shop," she says, glancing toward the well-stocked shelves of the let’s-pretend supermarket. In the garage, junior auto mechanics swarm around a car, performing such maintenance tasks as adding oil and tightening a tire’s lug nuts.Īt the airport, kids hoist luggage onto a make-believe conveyor belt and guide their parents through a security checkpoint before climbing into the cockpit to pilot the plane.īut Leela Anderson, 8, from Ann Arbor, Mich., has a different favorite. Judging by the activity on a recent post-holiday afternoon, however, Green Village seems to suit enthusiastic young museum visitors just fine. Instead of the Green Village – a hands-on miniature city complete with supermarket, bank, auto repair and airport – there will be Greenopolis. (For an online preview, go to Some of the new exhibits will be reminiscent of current Discovery Museum favorites. The Discovery Museum’s new $50 million Symphony Park home will have three stories, not two, and almost double the space (58,000 square feet), with expanded interactive exhibits in nine themed galleries. (The Las Vegas Natural History Museum is "definitely in discussion" with library officials about moving into the Discovery Museum’s old space, according to Marilyn Gillespie, the natural history museum’s executive director.) "This is a well-designed building for a museum," Quinn says. Which gives families about a month to visit the old favorite – a 20-time winner in the Review-Journal’s annual Best of Las Vegas contest – one more time. "If everything runs on schedule, we should be finished here by mid-February," says Linda Quinn, the museum’s chief executive officer. Sometime in early February, the museum – which has been a fixture at the Las Vegas Library in downtown’s "Cultural Corridor" since September 1990 – will close its doors.Ībout a month later, in early March, a new set of doors will open – in downtown’s Symphony Park, adjacent to The Smith Center for the Performing Arts – and the Lied Discovery Museum will become the Discovery Children’s Museum. The Lied Discovery Children’s Museum is in the process of answering that question – but it won’t take much longer. Children ask, "What do I want to be when I grow up?"Ĭhildren’s museums ask, "Where do we want to be when we grow up?"
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