Bees and butterflies bound into the Children’s Museum
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — The Terre Haute Children’s Museum has a new exhibit gracing its doors based around our great pollinators bees and butterflies.
The exhibit will feature the return of the observation beehive, an animatronic monarch butterfly, an augmented reality sandbox, along with live caterpillars and butterflies and other activities.
The new exhibit titled Bees, Butterflies & Blooms focuses on teaching people the importance of protecting native plants and pollinators and their important roles in our ecosystem. The exhibit that was produced by Kidzeum of Health and Science and The Children’s Museum is excited to continue its partnership efforts with other midwestern museums to foster new STEM related learning opportunities through their exhibits.
“We are so grateful to work with other museums and have the support of our community to bring exhibits such as this one to downtown Terre Haute. Our goal is to inspire a sense of wonder and appreciation for these essential creatures. We hope to foster a new generation of environmental stewards,” said the Terre Children’s Museum Executive Director, Susan Turner.
The museum will be holding an event to celebrate its new exhibit June 22 ,11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pollinator Palooza is a day of fun interactive and educational activities to educate and captivate young minds and provide a unique opportunity for them to learn about our ecosystem. Pollinator Palooza will offer multiple tables of activities, including:
- Play the Monarch Migration game. Did you know a Monarch butterfly can fly up to 100 miles in a day?
- Match the pollinator to the flower.
- Look inside a tree to see honey bees at work.
- Check out the three different types of butterflies and caterpillars in the butterfly house!
- Create a take home mason bee house or/and a butterfly feeder.
- Learn how the bees do the waggle dance to direct others to flower patches, and find out if you can waggle as well!
- Help beekeepers extract fresh honey. And local beekeepers from The Wabash Valley Beekeepers club and the Clay County Beekeepers club will be on hand to talk bees, demonstrate beekeeping equipment, and sell some of their locally produced bee related products.
The exhibit will remain open until April 15, 2025 and is included with their general admission tickets which are $9 per person from ages 2-102 and museum members get in free. The Terre Haute Children’s museum June through August will be open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
