Moon to Mars exhibit brings hands-on house enjoyable to Beckley

BECKLEY, W.Va. –West Virginia youngsters will get the prospect to blast off into studying with the latest exhibit on the Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia.

The Moon to Mars exhibit will enable youngsters to construct their very own rockets, hover over one other planet within the Orion spacecraft, expertise what it feels wish to stroll in a reduced-gravity setting and participate in different hands-on actions.

Museum’s Director of Operations Leslie Baker stated the exhibit is on mortgage from the Omaha Children’s Museum.

“The particular museum in Omaha is a real special place and they’ve worked real hard with NASA to make sure that this exhibit was really good and educational, fun for kids, and we appreciate them and this is first of several that we’re going to rent from them over the next few years,” Baker stated on MetroNews Midday final week.

She stated this isn’t the primary time the museum has borrowed displays from different establishments. Baker stated they started renting touring displays shortly after the museum opened in 1977.

She stated the museum has showcased quite a few displays over the 49 years it has been open.

“We have had exhibits from every major museum in the country, so anywhere from the Smithsonian to the Boston Children’s Museum, the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, all the way to the Exploratorium in San Francisco,” Baker stated. “We’ve had over 125 exhibits in our years.”

She defined that as a result of the museum is small and serves as a preferred discipline journey vacation spot for a lot of southern West Virginia faculties, it was determined they’d restrict everlasting displays and as an alternative supply rotating shows with one thing for everybody. Baker stated they alter displays two to a few instances a 12 months.

She stated the wonderful thing about the displays is that everybody who visits learns one thing.

“That’s the thing about children museums, it’s kind of like backdoor education, they come in, there’s bells, there’s pulley’s, there’s things to climb on and after the initial burst of energy and running from pillar to post, and they stop, they begin to really delve into the concepts,” Baker stated.

She stated the museum is at present open Tuesday by Saturday from 10 a.m. to five p.m.; nevertheless, starting April 1, it is going to be open seven days per week from 10 a.m. to five p.m.