June 17 - October 3, 2010

at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum!

The GRCM is grateful to Cascade Engineering and WGVU for their sponsorship that made Curious George: Let's Get Curious! possible.

Curious GeorgeTM: Let’s Get Curious!, Minnesota Children’s Museum’s newest original exhibit, opens June 17, 2010 at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum! Introducing young children into the world of Curious George, the exhibit leads visitors on a fun, meaningful interactive math, science and engineering-based adventure while it emphasizes the central role that parents and caregivers play.

The exhibit is based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions that launched last fall on PBS KIDS^®(check local listings) and recently received its first Daytime Emmy^®Award-nomination for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program.  The exhibit, which was designed, developed and built by Minnesota Children’s Museum in partnership with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, encourages children’s natural curiosity as they explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on play. 

The immersive exhibit environment takes place where Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat live. Insatiably curious, George lives to find new things to discover, touch, spill and chew. Learn like George – through direct experiences and problem solving. The Curious GeorgeTM: Let’s Get Curious! exhibit is sponsored by 3M.

Exhibit Features:

Apartment Building

Operate wheels to move Curious George on pulleys from window to window. Climb the fire escape and climb inside to play with color, light and shadow.

Sidewalk Produce Stand

Play customer or sales person and explore shapes, sorting, weighing and counting with fruit and vegetables.

Construction Site

Design a building, make use of a bounty of building materials and get to work constructing different structures and using machines to move materials.

City Park

Enjoy the urban green space: rest or give a hug to a full-size Curious George and take a picture! Our youngest visitors will enjoy our busy wall activities for babies and toddlers.

Mini Golf

Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering as you putt through three holes of mini golf.

Space Rocket

Step up to the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure! Pose for a picture with George in his space suit and e-mail it home.

Farm

Take a vacation to the country and visit the farm. Experience cause and effect and use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs, windmills, windsocks, and wind chimes. Build your own whirligig or windsock and care for the farm animals.

Museum Within the Museum

Learn new things about George when you visit the Museum within the Museum. Follow H.A. and Margret Rey’s work, the escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript, and Curious George throughout the years.

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Curious George television series merchandise © Universal Studios.  Curious George and related characters, created by Margret and H.A. Rey, are copyrighted and trademarked by Houghton Mifflin Company and used under license.  Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP.  All rights reserved.  The PBS KIDS logo is a registered mark of PBS and is used with permission.

To the Rescue Races Back to GRCM!



With heroes, helpers and exciting ways to play it safe, To The Rescue is back at the GRCM, from September 20, 2010 - January 20, 2011! To the Rescue is a GRCM original safety exhibit with special programming to help kids discover what it’s like to be a rescue worker.

Lil’ Red Fire Truck #5 and the Rescue Helicopter* are back and ready to save the day with costumes, sirens, lights and more! Join in all of the fun while the little ones dress up as firefighters and other heroes, slide down the escape slide and take a turn at the wheel. Children can pretend to fly at the helicopter control panel, and then use the life raft to rescue the dogs in the water below! Plus, visitors can play the Tic-Tac-Toe safety game, identifying fire hazards in the Fire Safety House.

Our To the Rescue Med Center* is also open for business! Children can dress up and role play as paramedics while they administer first aid to their puppet “patients.” Using play bandages, stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs and more, children can examine, diagnose and treat their puppet friends back to health.

*Please note: Our Rescue Helicopter and To the Rescue Med Center open on October 12, 2010

Click here for a To the Rescue Teacher Resource Guide!

Exhibit Sponsor:

Do you like to dig?

GRCM's own Excavation Station will reopen on Tuesday, May 18th!  Little ones can grab a hardhat to dig, shovel, and fill buckets with pretend gravel!  This area also features pretend rocks that children can use to build their own rock wall or lay down a stone path for mini-trucks and bulldozers to drive across. 

Don't miss out on all the construction fun!

Aunt Daisy's Farm

Come play down(town) on the farm!

NOW PLAYING!

The Grand Rapids Children’s Museum, in partnership with the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, has created a brand-new, interactive exhibit!  This exhibit focuses on farm-life, helping to bridge the gap between urban and rural by providing guests with meaningful learning experiences through play!

The West Michigan agricultural industry will come alive as children pick apples, feed pretend animals, grow plants, gather eggs, and enjoy what it is like to live and work on a farm. This exhibit is designed to ensure that children have an opportunity to play as they learn and practice skills such as cooperation, problem solving, language, mathematics, movement, and more. While children are playing they are also developing self-esteem, curiosity, and independence; all through PLAY!

So, join in the fun as we PLAY down(town) on the farm!

PARENT RESOURCES:

Please click here for the Toddler's Activity Guide for Aunt Daisy's Farm.

Click here for the School-aged Children's Activity Guide for Aunt Daisy's Farm.

The Aunt Daisy's Farm exhibit was designed and produced by

the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts 

Thank you to Quincy Street, Triangle, and

Kent County Farm Bureau!