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28-631: The Glazer Children's Museum is a non-profit children's museum located in downtown Tampa, Florida , next to the Tampa Museum of Art and Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park , alongside the Tampa Riverwalk . It is part of the Downtown River Arts neighborhood. Housed in a 53,000-square-foot facility in downtown Tampa , the museum features interactive exhibits in multiple themed areas. Traveling exhibits occasionally supplement

56-861: A $ 22 million capital campaign to build the new building, construction began in March 2009 and was completed in April 2010, the museum was then opened on September 25, 2010. In honor of the Glazer Family Foundation, who had donated $ 5 million, the Museum was named as Glazer Children's Museum. In its first year of operation, the museum served 250,000 guests, donated more than 25,000 admission tickets to underserved youth populations, and saw approximately 26,000 children during school field trips and educational programs. Since its opening in 2010, Glazer Children's Museum has hosted more than two million guests and

84-494: A new space, housed underneath Brower Park at St Mark's and Brooklyn Avenues, following the demolition of the Victorian houses that served as its prior home. In 1996, the museum was once again renovated at a cost of $ 7 million to include miniature amphitheaters and a number of new galleries. Two years later, it became a part of Heart of Brooklyn , a cultural partnership established to promote tourism to Brooklyn. In 2005, it

112-478: A small storefront location, the museum provided exhibits that gave children a safe place to learn and play. In 1989, with support from the City of Tampa , the museum relocated next to the city zoo . This site operated under the name Kid City and consisted of a series of outdoor miniature buildings simulating a small town. From 1989 to 2003, Kid City was an ideal space for the museum to provide curriculum centered on

140-738: Is KIDS PLAZA OSAKA which was established in 1997. There is a children's Museum in the Canadian Museum of History . The Early Start Discovery Space in Wollongong, Australia opened in 2015 and was modelled on the US-styled children's museums. Brooklyn Children%27s Museum The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City . Founded in 1899, it

168-577: Is an integral part of the cultural corridor of museums, libraries, theaters, and performing arts centers in Tampa Bay. In January 2023, the museum announced it would host a three-year public exhibition of Big John , a fossilized Triceratops , on loan for Tampa-based businessman Siddhartha Pagidipati. Upon its arrival, the fossil was reconstructed in less than a week and displayed at the museum's annual gala on February 3, 2023. The museum announced that it would end its rule prohibiting adults from attending

196-854: Is that activity can be as educational as instruction, especially in early childhood. Most children's museums are nonprofit organizations, and many are run by volunteers or by very small professional staffs. International professional organizations of children's museums include the Association of Children's Museums (ACM), which was formed in 1962 as the American Association of Youth Museums (AAYM) and in 2007 counted 341 member institutions in 23 countries, and The Hands On! Europe Association of Children's Museum (HO!E), established in 1994, with member institutions in 34 countries as of 2007. Many museums that are members of ACM offer reciprocal memberships, allowing members of one museum to visit all

224-586: Is the first children's museum in the United States – and according to some, the first one worldwide. It is unusual in its location in what is predominantly a residential area. Housed in a multi-level underground gallery, the museum underwent an expansion and renovation to double its space, reopened on September 20, 2008, and became the first green museum in New York City. The museum's collection and exhibitions reflect its long history as well as

252-628: The Great Depression . Among these workers was Ellis Credle , who painted murals before her career as an author began. By October 1930, monthly visitation had reached 60,000 and by 1939, the museum had received move than 9 million visitors since it opened 40 years prior. In 1968 the Brooklyn Children's Museum opened MUSE, the Bedford Lincoln Neighborhood Museum. In 1975, the museum moved to

280-617: The Smithsonian 's children's room opened in 1901. The Brooklyn Children's Museum also inspired other children's museums either housed separately or even developed completely independently of parent museums, like the Boston Children's Museum (1913), The Children's Museum of Detroit Public Schools (1915), and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis (1925). The number of children's museums in the United States continued to grow over

308-531: The ages of six and twenty years". Their goal was to gain children's interest and "to stimulate their powers of observation and reflection" as well as to "illustrate by collections of pictures, cartoons, charts, models, maps and so on, each of the important branches of knowledge which is taught in elementary schools". Anna Billings Gallup, the museum's curator from 1904 to 1937, encouraged a learning technique that allowed children to "discover" information by themselves through touching and examining objects. Visitors to

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336-587: The century viewed themselves as institutions of public education, their exhibits were often not made accessible for children, who may have struggled with simple design features like the height of exhibit cases, or the language of interpretive labels. Furthermore, touching objects was often prohibited, limiting visitors' ability to interact with museum objects. The founders of the Brooklyn Children's Museum were concerned with education and realized that no other institution had attempted to establish "a Museum that will be of especial value and interest to young people between

364-428: The changes in children's educational needs over time and the changing environment. Its original focus was the presentation of natural science to children raised in an urban environment, but following World War II , technology and cultural awareness became more important. The underground gallery in which the museum was located following a 1975 move provided the ideal location for arranging evolving exhibits. The museum

392-473: The course of the twentieth century, with over 40 museums opened by the 1960s and more than 70 children's museums opened to the public between 1990 and 1997. The next earliest children's museums were: By 1975, there were approximately 38 children's museums in the United States. An additional 80 institutions opened between 1976 and 1990, and more than 130 opened between 1990 and 2007. As of 2007, ACM estimated that there were approximately 80 children's museums in

420-615: The direction of the Brooklyn Institute and received approximately $ 70,000 in funds from New York City each year to supplement the donations it received. Attendance grew quickly, with monthly visitation exceeding 13,000 by October 1905. In 1929, the museum opened the Smith House annex. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration supplied hundreds of workers to the museum, which thrived in

448-524: The institution has taken credit for being the first New York City museum to use geothermal wells for heating and cooling purposes. A section of the museum's building was converted into space for the Brower Park branch of Brooklyn Public Library , as part of a wider partnership between the museum and the library system. It opened in July 2023. Gans and Company was hired to design another renovation of

476-507: The museum were able to compare the composition, weight, and hardness of minerals, learn to use a microscope to examine natural objects, and build their own collections of natural objects to be displayed in a special room of the museum. In addition to emphasis on allowing interaction with objects, Gallup also encouraged learning through play. She believed learning at the Brooklyn Children's Museum should be "pure fun", and to this end developed nature clubs, held field trips, brought live animals into

504-538: The museum without accompanying children. The Big John exhibition, including an interactive hands-on play area, opened on May 26, 2023. Source: Children%27s museum Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children . In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums feature interactive exhibits that are designed to be manipulated by children. The theory behind such exhibits

532-542: The museum's permanent collection as well. The history of Glazer Children's Museum dates back to the 1965 opening of Safety Village in Lowry Park. The Children's Museum of Tampa, Inc. was founded in 1986 by community volunteers and with support of many private and public partners. The Children's Museum of Tampa served children and families in the Tampa Bay Area for over two decades. From humble beginnings in

560-484: The museum, and hired gallery instructors to lead children in classification games about animals, shells, and minerals. Other children's museums of the early twentieth century used similar techniques that emphasized learning through experience. Children's museums often emphasize experiential learning through museum interactives, sometimes leading them to have very few or no physical collection items. The Brooklyn Children's Museum and other early children's museums grew out of

588-545: The nineteenth century. Some scholars argue that objects, while once critical to the definition of a museum, are no longer considered vital to many institutions because they are no longer necessary to fulfill the roles we expect museums to serve as museums focus more on programs, education, and their visitors. After the Brooklyn Children's Museum opened in 1899, other American museums followed suit by opening small children's sections of their institutions designed with children in mind and equipped with interactive activities, such as

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616-471: The others for free or for a discounted fee. The Brooklyn Children's Museum was established in 1899 by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences . It is often regarded as the first children's museum in the United States. The idea behind the Brooklyn Children's Museum implicitly acknowledged that existing American museums were not designed with children in mind. Although museums at the turn of

644-837: The planning phase. The children's museum concept has spread worldwide from the United States. Le Musée des Enfants in Brussels was started in 1978, inspired by Boston Children's Museum. The Boston museum also inspired the Museo Pambata in Manila , which opened in 1994. The Children's Museum of Caracas , Venezuela, became Latin America's first museum for children when it opened in 1982. The Children's Museum of Bogotá , Colombia, followed it in 1986. Eureka! The National Children's Museum in Halifax, England , established in 1992, claims

672-787: The title of the United Kingdom's first hands-on children's museum. Austria's first museum for children was ZOOM Children's Museum in Vienna , established in 1994. Korea's first children's museum is the Samsung Children's Museum in Seoul , which opened in 1995 under the sponsorship of the Samsung Culture Foundation. India has seen rise in children's museums in recent years. The first children's museum in Japan

700-428: The tradition of natural history museums, object-centered institutions. Over the course of the twentieth century, the children's museums slowly began to discard their objects in favor of more interactive exhibits. While children's museums are a more extreme case, it is important to note that during the twentieth century, more and more museums have elected to display fewer objects and offer more interpretation than museums of

728-581: The value of community. Kid City served over 750,000 visitors from the Tampa Bay Area and became an important part of the cultural and educational fabric of the community. In 2003, museum volunteers and staff began looking at the next step of expansion to meet the needs of its community. After conducting a feasibility study and gathering input from more than 400 people, plans were drawn for a new 53,000-square-foot state-of-the-art children's museum in downtown Tampa's new Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park. After

756-531: Was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $ 20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation , which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg . In the same year, work began on the $ 43 million expansion that was to nearly double the size of the museum, and handle more than 400,000 visitors each year. As part of its commitment to environmental integrity and energy efficiency,

784-562: Was not intended to solely attract the interest of a young audience, but rather to engage their minds from a young age. Children contribute extensively in the planning of museum exhibits, and have done so for a significant part of its history. The Museum was founded following a proposal from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (now the Brooklyn Museum ) on December 16, 1899, in the Adams House. The museum operated under

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