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Our Town - Main Street
The Market The Market exhibit, made possible by the generous donation of The Fresh Market, is complete with a variety of departments like you would find in a real grocery store including produce, bakery, seafood and meat. The exhibit has real wood fixtures, canopies, grocery shelving, and working registers kids can ring up the food on. Children can have a great time shopping in the store with their parents, pushing kid-sized carts around, selecting healthy foods from the stocked shelves and getting new wholesome recipes to prepare for dinner! .
Pizza Pan The Pizza Pan is GCM’s little restaurant that serves up delicious pizza pies and has a cool brick oven! Children can become pizza chefs, make fun pies, pull the pizzas out of the "oven" and serve them up to customers at the bar or deliver them to the stores and houses around Main Street. This exhibit was made possible by the generous donation of the High Five Club.
The Theater All the world is a stage, and this theater is sized just right for children to set their imaginations free. Complete with a light and sound booth, fun costumes, props and puppet show area, our Theater is sure to inspire thespians of all ages.
Our early childhood gallery is the center of it all! This cozy, safe area is for children 2 and under and filled with stimulating, hands-on learning through play exhibits. Soft padded blocks are found throughout this gated area as well as ride on toys, mirrors where kids can make faces, brightly colored balls and items to grab and manipulate, books, puzzles, mats for rolling around on and a cool tunnel to crawl in!
Construction Zone What does your house look like behind the walls? Probably a lot like ours. Children can learn how homes are framed, wired, insulated and finished in this half-built house. Down in the basement, we’ve got big "Lego-type" blocks for kids to build their own houses, towers or whatever creation they decide!
Nonie’s House Time stands still in our grandmother’s house. It’s the 1930’s, when most kitchens didn't’t have dishwashers, or even refrigerators. What else is missing from Nonie’s House? Well, just a TV set, but watch imaginations bloom as children cook, clean and play house here. Children can also harvest eggs from chickens in the coop , hang laundry or have a picnic in the front yard.
Creation Station
Get Out and Play
Transportation Gallery
In this exhibit, children can board a real DC-9 jet for an adventure high above GCM to become a pilot or a passenger and slide down the big yellow exit slide. Kids can also squeeze into the driver’s seat of a Petty Enterprises NASCAR Pontiac and challenge the field to a race, climb into real turnout gear and “race” to the scene of a fire in our real fire truck or flip on the lights and sirens of our real police car.
Trains
The new Train Exhibit, made possible by the generous gift of the Strasser Family, features a pint-sized, wooden steam locomotive that includes a coal car, dining car, passenger car and caboose that is large enough for kids to climb aboard. Similar to other exhibits in “Our Town”, kids can use their imagination to pretend to be workers in the Train Depot selling tickets or passengers onboard drinking tea in the dining car traveling the world.
(New!) Edible Schoolyard ThIS EXHIBIT IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION! Grand Opening is scheduled for May 22, 2010! The Greensboro Children’s Museum has been selected to be the first museum in the country to be affiliated with Alice Waters (the renowned food activist and chef) and The Chez Panisse Foundation and will have the first Edible Schoolyard at a Museum. The Museum’s Edible Schoolyard will be comprised of hands-on, teaching gardens and kitchen classrooms where children will learn about the relationship between food, nature and life through planting, tending, growing, harvesting, preparing and cooking organic foods simply and nutritiously and will enjoy a “Seed to Table” experience. The project will include a half acre garden outside the Museum filled organic vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers, trees and shrubs, with winding natural walkways and seating areas, include indoor and outdoor classrooms, a chicken coop, ramadas and arbors, a green house, a children’s tool shed, composting and recycling stations and a teaching kitchen, where children and families can create recipes, cook food, set tables, and share meals and conversation in a classroom setting. The Edible Schoolyard at GCM is expected to serve as a national model for other museums and children’s institutions nationwide promoting health and wellness in young children and families. Click here for more info on the Edible Schoolyard. We welcome all families to join us at the grand opening of the Edible Schoolyard on Saturday, May 22nd!
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Adults go to work every day in a town, and at the Greensboro Children’s Museum, children go to their work in “Our Town”. The Museum offers realistic exhibits placed along the Main Street that give children the chance to learn through "make believe" play with their parents and caregivers. Here, children can become a sales clerk or a grocery shopper in The Market, they can set the table for Sunday dinner at Nonie's House, be a dentist and check patient’s teeth for cavities in the Health Center, be a conductor on a train, pilot a DC-9 jet or be a fire fighter or police officer and keep our community safe. Bring your child and play with us on in Our Town!
Tot Spot
The Health Center
Media Room
