Children's Museum of Evansville

Central Library
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Front of the museum
Location:	22 SE. 5th St., Evansville, Indiana
Coordinates:	37°58′17″N 87°34′9″W / 37.97139°N 87.56917°W / 37.97139; -87.56917Coordinates: 37°58′17″N 87°34′9″W / 37.97139°N 87.56917°W / 37.97139; -87.56917
Area:	Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built:	1931
Architect:	H.E. Boyle Associates; Walker and Weeks
Architectural style:	Art Deco
Governing body:	Local
MPS:	Downtown Evansville MRA
NRHP Reference#:	82000086[1]
Added to NRHP:	July 1, 1982

The Koch Family Children's Museum of Evansville is an interactive children's museum in Evansville, Indiana, USA. The goal of the museum is to educate and inspire children about the world in which they live. Exhibits include deconstructing objects, a water exhibit that spans multiple floors, experiences about the human body and its senses, and a gallery for freedom of expression.^[2]

Built inside the historic old Central Library, the museum opened in September 2006. The Art Deco building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now offers visitors three floors of interactive exhibits and galleries. The museum was designed by Roto Studio, a museum design and engineering firm specializing in creating interactive educational environments and experiences for children as well as adults.

Permanent Galleries

Live Big: The Live Big Gallery exhibit provides children with hands on experiences about the human body in order to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. Activities in this exhibit include opportunities to explore the senses, test your reaction time, see the phenomenal length of the small intestine, and much more!

Speak Loud: Children naturally gravitate toward the creative arts in their everyday play. The Speak Loud exhibit encourages children, among other activities, to dramatize a familiar story, play instruments from around the world, create an artistic masterpiece and express their feelings through music, drama and the visual arts.

Quack Factory- Upper Deck: Meet cMoe's favorite duck and mascot "Moe" as every visitor has a role to play in feeding the Great Duck Machine. Visitors are "workers" and each have a task as balls and ducks are hoisted, dropped, launched, and pushed. Guests learn that when we work together- great things happen!

Quack Factory- Wet Deck: Bubbling, gurgling, swirling, rising- water flows through this exhibit in amazing ways. Send your duck around the basin or see if it can survive the nearby lock system. Create your own spouting masterpiece out of pipes and if it spring a leak, try again! A space visually connected to the Upper Deck of the Quack Factory, guest will certainly get wet!

Work Smart: Roll up your sleeves and get busy, because Work Smart is a place where you can build things and take things apart! Exhibits give visitors an inside view of the technical and mechanical side of our world. A sampling of the exhibit activities includes digging for dinosaur bones in the Dino Dig, estimating weight, and deconstructing a variety of tools and objects.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
2. ^ "Children's Museum of Evansville". Children's Museum of Evansville. http://www.cmoekids.org. Retrieved 2007-03-23. 

External links

• Children's Museum of Evansville website