Duluth Children's Museum
This funding is for arts, arts education, and arts access, and to preserve Minnesota's history and cultural heritage.
Passport to Culture is one of the museum's access strategies that creates scholarship opportunities for financially stressed households to ensure their children are able to benefit from the programs and services offered by the Duluth Children's Museum. In the first biennium, this program will use city of Duluth demographics to align the number of scholarships to keep pace with the level of families facing economic challenges (currently 45-50% of families with children of school age).
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The Duluth Children's Museum will expand its educational programs to meet the increased demand on childhood services. Programs will be available for after-school programming and in-school outreach. Duluth Children's Museum's services will be more accessible to the underserved population of the Duluth area and programming will engage the full diversity of families living in northeast Minnesota.
- Increase access through the Passport to Culture Program
- Expand age range and programming through additional science-based programs
- Increase impact through dramatic increase in Museum programming
- Strengthen direct connections to schools through Museum on the Move Exhibit Explorations program
For example, the Annual Bubble Festival on the last Sunday in August provides the entire community, and region, a way to celebrate creativity and science. Attendance increased from over 1000 people in 2009 to over 3200 people in 2010.Collaborations with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Arrowhead Regional Arts Council provided additional programming opportunities.To read the Duluth Children's Museum 2011 report to the legislature, click here.
The Duluth Children's Museum will expand its educational programs to meet the increased demand on childhood services. Programs will be available for after-school programming and in-school outreach. Duluth Children's Museum's services will be more accessible to the underserved population of the Duluth area and programming will engage the full diversity of families living in northeast Minnesota.
- Increase access through the Passport to Culture Program
- Expand age range and programming through additional science-based programs
- Increase impact through dramatic increase in Museum programming
- Strengthen direct connections to schools through Museum on the Move Exhibit Explorations program
For example, the Annual Bubble Festival on the last Sunday in August provides the entire community, and region, a way to celebrate creativity and science. Attendance increased from over 1000 people in 2009 to over 3200 people in 2010.Collaborations with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Arrowhead Regional Arts Council provided additional programming opportunities.To read the Duluth Children's Museum 2011 report to the legislature, click here.