DISCOVERY Children's Museum
DISCOVERY Children's Museum & The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
Established1984
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada
Coordinates36°10′8″N 115°9′9″W / 36.16889°N 115.15250°W / 36.16889; -115.15250
TypeChildren's museum
Public transit accessYes
Websitehttp://www.discoverykidslv.org/

DISCOVERY Children's Museum is a nonprofit children's museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formerly known as Lied Discovery Children's museum, this 58,000-square-foot (5,400 m2), three-story space is now located adjacent to The Smith Center in Downtown Las Vegas. The Museum sees roughly 250,000 visitors each year.

History

The DISCOVERY Children's Museum was founded by Robin Greenspun and Mark Tratos in 1984. The pair arranged a partnership between the Junior League of Las Vegas and the Allied Arts Council to fund a much-needed nonprofit educational institution in the Las Vegas Valley. In 1985, a bond issued to authorize the building of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library and Lied Discovery Children's Museum, which opened its doors on September 9, 1990.

Relocation

In 2010 the museum announced plans to construct and occupy a new home and larger home in Symphony Park.[1] The total for the Donald W. Reynolds Discovery Center project was $50 million.[2] In August 2010, the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced a gift to The Smith Center to pay for the completion of its block in Symphony Park. $43 million of that gift was used to build the Donald W. Reynolds Discovery Center. The museum raised the remaining $7 million needed to complete the project.[3] The new museum opened on March 9, 2013.[4]


References

  1. ↑ Dostal, Erin (August 11, 2010). "Children's museum plans for Smith Center expansion". Las Vegas Sun.
  2. ↑ Symphony Park, archived from the original on 9 March 2015, retrieved 10 March 2015
  3. ↑ Taylor, Diane (March 13, 2013). "The Smith Center - A Year in the Arts: Children's museum offers illumination". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Discovery Children's Museum History, Discovery Children's Museum, retrieved 10 March 2015


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