Bronx Children's Museum

Bronx Children's Museum
The Power House at Mill Pond Park.
Established 2005 (2005) [1][2]
Location Mill Pond Park, The Bronx, New York City[3]
Coordinates 40°49′27.74″N 73°55′53.59″W / 40.8243722°N 73.9315528°W / 40.8243722; -73.9315528
Type Children's museum
Visitors 18,000[1]
Executive director Carla Precht[4]
President Hope Harley[1]
Public transit access New 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
Website bronxchildrensmuseum.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 in the South Bronx whose primary exhibition space is set to open on the second floor of the Power House building in Mill Pond Park.[2] Since 2011, the museum has provided services out of it's 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]

Amongst 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 Jul 12, 2017[11][12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Bronx Children's Museum about page". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 Wirsing, Robert (July 24, 2017). "Bronx Children's Museum construction begins". Bronx Times. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bronx Children's Museum building". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Bronx Children's Museum". Bronx Children's Museum. Retrieved 17 June 2018.
  5. 1 2 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 13 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Bronx Children's Museum". NYCgo.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  7. 1 2 Wirsing, Robert (May 20, 2018). "Children's Museum Honors Stars". Bronx Times. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Sotomayor has supreme morning with Kingsbridge kids". The Riverdale Press. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  9. ↑ Gonzalez, David (August 2, 2015). "2 Proud Daughters of the Bronx Share More Than a Name". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 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 29 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Groundbreaking held for new Bronx Children's Museum". News12. News 12 The Bronx. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Cheah, Selina (July 13, 2017). "Bronx Children's Museum in historic power station breaks ground - Archpaper.com". archpaper.com. Retrieved 13 July 2018.


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