Bronx Children's Museum

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Bronx Children's Museum
Bronx Children's Museum Logo.png
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The Power House at Mill Pond Park.
Established2005 (2005) [2][3]
LocationMill Pond Park, The Bronx, New York City[1]
Coordinates40°49′27.74″N 73°55′53.59″W / 40.8243722°N 73.9315528°W / 40.8243722; -73.9315528
TypeChildren's museum
Visitors18,000[2]
Executive directorCarla Precht[4]
PresidentHope Harley[2]
Public transit accessNew York City Subway: "2" train​"4" train​"5" train at 149th Street–Grand Concourse
New York City Bus: Bx1, Bx2, Bx19, Bx41, Bx41 SBS
Metro-North Railroad:      Hudson Line at Yankees – East 153rd Street
Websitebronxchildrensmuseum.org
Signage inside the Mill Pond Park Power House
Interior of the Power House

The Bronx Children's Museum is a children's museum founded in 2005. Its future exhibition space is located in Mill Pond Park in the South Bronx, New York City. The space is currently under construction and not open to the public at this time. The Museum provides ongoing in-school, afterschool and summer enrichment programming throughout the borough at schools, community based organizations, shelters, libraries, local festivals and parks. Since 2011, the Museum has offered programming out of its Museum On The Go! bus, also known as the "purple bus".[5][6] The museum reaches about 10,000 people per year through the purple bus.[5][7] Upon completion, its primary exhibition space will be located on the second floor of the Power House building in Mill Pond Park.[3]

Among the museum's supporters are Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former Sesame Street star Sonia Manzano, both regular participants of the museum's "Dream Big" summer program.[8][9] Manzano has also written a children's book for the museum: The Lowdown on the High Bridge about the nearby High Bridge, which straddles the East River, and provided water to Manhattan from the old Croton Aqueduct.[10] Other celebrities associated with the museum include Kerry Washington, and Chazz Palminteri, both honorees at the museum's annual galas, and Sunny Hostin, who serves on the museum's board of directors. [7]

The groundbreaking ceremony for the exhibition space was held on July 12, 2017.[11][12] The permanent building is expected to open in 2020.[13]

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  1. ^ "Bronx Children's Museum building". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Bronx Children's Museum about page". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Wirsing, Robert (July 24, 2017). "Bronx Children's Museum construction begins". Bronx Times. Archived from the original on July 22, 2018. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  4. ^ "Bronx Children's Museum". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  5. ^ a b Hu, Winnie (August 15, 2014). "Adrift for Years, Bronx Children's Museum Finds a Place to Park Its Purple Bus". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  6. ^ "Bronx Children's Museum". NYCgo.com. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  7. ^ a b Wirsing, Robert (May 20, 2018). "Children's Museum Honors Stars". Bronx Times. Archived from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
  8. ^ "Sotomayor has supreme morning with Kingsbridge kids". The Riverdale Press. July 25, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
  9. ^ Gonzalez, David (August 2, 2015). "2 Proud Daughters of the Bronx Share More Than a Name". The New York Times. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
  10. ^ Manzano, Sonia (2014). The Lowdown on the High Bridge: The Story of how New York City Got Its Water. Bronx Children's Museum. ISBN 9780991424511. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  11. ^ "Groundbreaking held for new Bronx Children's Museum". News12. News 12 The Bronx. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  12. ^ Cheah, Selina (July 13, 2017). "Bronx Children's Museum in historic power station breaks ground - Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  13. ^ "Stars raise money for new Bronx children's museum". News 12 The Bronx. May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
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