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Greetings from the Children's Museum of Rochester!
CMR gains momentum with first exhibit, new website, first fundraiser
Our efforts to establish a Children's Museum of Rochester (CMR) have continued to gain momentum and generate excitement in the community. In recent months, we've taken some significant steps in our efforts to establish a CMR.
Kids and parents love our first mini-exhibit, an interactive playhouse dubbed "CMR Under Construction," that we are setting up at community events around Rochester. The playhouse, built for CMR by Weis Builders, showcases the educational fun that a children's museum can provide. It teaches about construction by giving kids hands-on opportunities to use magnetic siding, paint walls with water, connect circuits to make doorbells ring, attach and remove knobs, and more. Look for our exhibit at Rochesterfest's Family Fun Night on June 24 and on a float in the Rochesterfest parade on June 26!
Our newly redesigned website includes extensive content that will help us educate website visitors about why Rochester is the perfect place for a children's museum. Corporate Web Services designed the site for us, and it now includes thorough descriptions of what a children's museum is, a news section with links to our media mentions, an FAQs section that addresses the inquiries we commonly receive, and a Kids' Zone that solicits input from our youngest supporters and gives your kids an opportunity to express their creativity. Please visit us online for all the latest news and info! And we are also on Facebook, so check us out there, too.
Our first fundraising event, held March 22 at BB's Pizzaria, was a huge success! We haven't officially kicked off our capital campaign, but several hundred people showed up to "eat some pizza and raise some dough" at an informal fundraiser. The event raised more than $700 for CMR, which was 25 percent of the proceeds of BB's pizza sales that day. Thank you, BB's! Find out about future fundraising events on our Events page, and donate to CMR through our Giving page.
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We're looking for a place to call home!
We are looking for an existing building in which to house the first-ever Children's Museum of Rochester. Our research has shown that most successful Children's Museums start out in buildings that are donated or made available for a bargain, and we hope to find such a deal. If you have ideas for a building that might be right for us, please email us at info@childrensmuseumrochester.org. |
Listen to us on the radio and look for us on TV
There are lots of ways to get the scoop about CMR. The CMR has been written about recently in our local newspaper and magazines, as well as getting air time on the radio. With the help of Tracy McCray, the CMR produced some Public Service Announcements about our project that were aired heavily on local radio stations in March and April, 2009. You can listen to CMR president Scott Liebl, CMR vice president Melissa Brinkman, and CMR supporter Hadley (age 10) on the radio ads, which are accessible via our News page. Also, Ali Lucia and Fox 47 are helping CMR film some TV Public Service Announcements that should begin airing on Fox 47 in late June. |
About CMR
The Children's Museum of Rochester (CMR) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and maintaining a permanent children's museum in our community.
We're all local parents--educators, businesspeople, stay-at-home parents, healthcare professionals--with the dream of providing children the opportunity to discover the world around them in a hands-on, personal way.
We have a 19-member Board of Directors. |
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