The Westchester Children's Museum Opens Today

By Al Branch and Lanning Taliaferro

The Westchester Children’s Museum, located on the Boardwalk at Playland in Rye, opens for the season today, May 20.

The museum’s hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Mondays and Tuesdays are reserved for by-appointment groups. Camp and school groups can contact the museum at 914-421-5050 for more information. Birthday parties will not be offered until the fall, according to organizers.

Among the exhibits this year are:

• “Build Your Own Roller Coaster” - an interactive, hands-on experience that involves the creation of your own roller coaster from design phase to testing phase. Visitors will have a chance to make discoveries about force, energy, friction, and stability - all while having a great time. Sponsored by Con Edison.
• KEVA planks - an interactive experience comprised of thousands of small, uniform building planks yielding endless creation possibilities. Incorporating elements of art and architecture, the exhibit will challenge children, fuel creativity, and allow for collaborative interaction.
• Make thing fly - The fun begins when junior inventors use odd materials to create a flying object and then experiment with it in the museum’s fantastic wind tunnel.

The Campaign for the Westchester Children’s Museum is in the midst of a $10 million capital campaign to build out the full museum, which organizers expect to complete by the fall.

For more information on the museum, visit the website,http://discoverwcm.org/, or its Facebook page.