April 2014

A Product of a Unique Collaboration: Portland Children's Museum's "Outdoor Adventure"

By Ruth Shelly

Opening April 22, 2014, Outdoor Adventure, the newest permanent exhibit at Portland Children’s Museum, has transformed more than 1.3 acres of previously inaccessible land into an intentional, education-based outdoor play space where every area is designed to support learning through play in nature.

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Objects, Meetings, and Picking Favorites: The Making of ‘Imagine That: Surprising Stories and Amazing Objects in the Burke Museum’

By Samantha Porter Two weeks after I started in my current role at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, I joined the team that was tasked with developing one of the most ambitious exhibits the Museum has created, Imagine That: Surprising Stories and Amazing Objects in the Burke Museum.