The Orpheum Children's Science Museum is a children's science museum located in an old Orpheum Theatre in downtown Champaign, Illinois. The Museum covers all of the entrance to the theater, and some adjoining space outside. There are plans to turn the stage and theater part into exhibits soon. The Orpheum has many exhibits, ranging from a simple machines castle to a musical instrument made of pvc tubing.
The Orpheum also offers other activities, including field trips, summer camps, 'weekend wizards', and a girls do science club. Throughout the year many classes or clubs come to the Orpheum for hands on science teaching in many different fields. The summer camps, each a week long, vary in topic from dinosaurs, physics, inventing and robots. The girls do science club offers girls a chance to tour laboratories of women who work on the U of I campus, as well as other opportunities.
The Orpheum is supported mainly by volunteer effort. The makers of the exhibits are, for the most part, unpaid, as are the people running the summer camps.
Read more about Orpheum Children's Science Museum: History of The Building, Development of The Children's Museum
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