Admission Prices
General Admission is $6.50 per person,
ages 1 year and above
Anyone under the age of 1 year is FREE
Thursday evening is Family Night
from 5:00pm-8:00pm
with $1.50 admission per person,
ages 1 year and above
Pals Members play all day for FREE!
Please click here to learn more about
becoming a member!
For more information on planning a visit to the museum,
please click the "Schedule Your Play Day" link or click here!
June 17 - October 3, 2010
at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum!
The GRCM is grateful to Cascade Engineering and WGVU for their sponsorship that made Curious George: Let's Get Curious! possible.
Curious GeorgeTM: Let’s Get Curious!, Minnesota Children’s Museum’s newest original exhibit, opens June 17, 2010 at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum! Introducing young children into the world of Curious George, the exhibit leads visitors on a fun, meaningful interactive math, science and engineering-based adventure while it emphasizes the central role that parents and caregivers play.
The exhibit is based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions that launched last fall on PBS KIDS®(check local listings) and recently received its first Daytime Emmy®Award-nomination for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program. The exhibit, which was designed, developed and built by Minnesota Children’s Museum in partnership with Universal Studios Consumer Products Group, encourages children’s natural curiosity as they explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on play.
The immersive exhibit environment takes place where Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat live. Insatiably curious, George lives to find new things to discover, touch, spill and chew. Learn like George – through direct experiences and problem solving. The Curious GeorgeTM: Let’s Get Curious! exhibit is sponsored by 3M.
Exhibit Features:
Apartment Building
Operate wheels to move Curious George on pulleys from window to window. Climb the fire escape and climb inside to play with color, light and shadow.
Sidewalk Produce Stand
Play customer or sales person and explore shapes, sorting, weighing and counting with fruit and vegetables.
Construction Site
Design a building, make use of a bounty of building materials and get to work constructing different structures and using machines to move materials.
City Park
Enjoy the urban green space: rest or give a hug to a full-size Curious George and take a picture! Our youngest visitors will enjoy our busy wall activities for babies and toddlers.
Mini Golf
Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering as you putt through three holes of mini golf.
Space Rocket
Step up to the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure! Pose for a picture with George in his space suit and e-mail it home.
Farm
Take a vacation to the country and visit the farm. Experience cause and effect and use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs, windmills, windsocks, and wind chimes. Build your own whirligig or windsock and care for the farm animals.
Museum Within the Museum
Learn new things about George when you visit the Museum within the Museum. Follow H.A. and Margret Rey’s work, the escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript, and Curious George throughout the years.
Exhibit Photos:
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Curious George television series merchandise © Universal Studios. Curious George and related characters, created by Margret and H.A. Rey, are copyrighted and trademarked by Houghton Mifflin Company and used under license. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. All rights reserved. The PBS KIDS logo is a registered mark of PBS and is used with permission.
Downtown Alliance:
Downtown Awards
The Grand Rapids Children's Museum has been nominated for a Downtown Award!
We are nominated in the category "small project, big impact" for the mural on the front of our building. Cast your vote here and help us win our category!
New and exciting updates from
the Come On Over! television show.
Click here to learn all about it.
Check out a great resource for parents at www.westmiparents.org!
Momslikeme.com
Click here to check out a new, fun, free website for
moms in West Michigan to discuss issues,
share ideas, join playgroups or find a recipe!
Now there's a site just for kids in the Grand Rapids area!
Be sure to check out www.grkids.com.
To learn more about all of our upcoming programs
and special activities, please visit our
"What's Happening?" Calendar
by clicking here!
Have you heard?
The Grand Rapids Children's Museum
is now on Facebook!
If you have an account with Facebook, become a GRCM fan and keep up to date on all of the fun things happening at your favorite children's museum! Stay tuned for lots of great event and program updates, museum announcements, new pictures, and lots more as we work to develop this page to best meet the needs and interests of our fans.