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PROJECT
The Peoria PlayHouse
The Peoria PlayHouse project is built on a solid partnership between the Junior League of Peoria, the Peoria Zoological Society and the Peoria Park District. As part of the larger plan to revitalize the campus at Glen Oak Park spurred by the expansion of the Peoria Zoo and Botanical Gardens, the children’s museum will be situated at the newly designed entrance to the zoo at the Glen Oak Pavilion.
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Junior League of Peoria
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Women Building Better Communities
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Charity Info
Based in: Peoria, Illinois
Year founded: 1936
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Children’s museums represent a community-wide investment in children. Central Illinois parents and teachers have long expressed the need for a hands-on facility designed and constructed solely with the needs and interests of our youngest citizens in mind. The Peoria PlayHouse will meet this need with an environment that piques the curiosity of children, ages birth to 8, and challenges them to learn and grow.
Further, Junior League research has shown that no facility in our area currently offers this type of educational experience for this age group, and that our community’s younger population is not being sufficiently served.
The Peoria PlayHouse will build leadership and teamwork skills, using hands-on, engaged learned activities in science, math and technology. The Peoria PlayHouse will help to grow a child’s imagination and creativity so that he or she can invent great things as an adult. It will help to foster a lifelong love of learning that will lead to greater things for the children of tomorrow.
Finally, The Peoria PlayHouse will provide the opportunity for children and families to experience things that make Peoria a special place to learn and grow. Mary Sinker, education consultant for this project, states, “Children’s museums should not seem to have dropped from the sky and landed in a community. They must grow from the rich soil that shapes the lives of those who will visit the facility regularly. They must be cut from the cloth of the community and be filled with the history and uniqueness of that area.” As such, it is critically important that families and organizations in our community “play” a part in this museum.
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