Portland Children’s Museum Offering Free Admission Today

Friday, February 05, 2016

GoLocalPDX Lifestyle Team

The Portland Children’s Museum is offering free admission on Friday from 4 PM to 8 PM, courtesy of Target.

Portland Children’s Museum was founded by visionary Dorothea Lensch in 1946 as part of Portland Parks and Recreation. The Museum is now the sixth oldest children’s museum in the country and each year the Museum welcomes more than 316,000 children from birth to age ten and their caregivers.

Since moving to its current location in 2001, the Museum has hosted over 1.6 million visitors from across the country and the world, is home to Opal Public Charter and Museum School, and has become a regional resource for early childhood development. Within the Museum Center for Learning, educators are studying the needs of young children and the kinds of environments and approaches to teaching that inspire children to grow and learn.

For more information on this and other events happening at the Portland Children’s Museum, visit their website.

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