NatureMaker

Opening next year, the Children’s Museum of Naples will be “an exciting, inspiring environment where children and their families play, learn and dream together.” The 30,000-square-foot museum will feature ten spectacularly designed, child-scaled exhibits to invite sensory and intellectual exploration. The heartbeat of the museum will be the Banyan Tree exhibit. NatureMaker was commissioned to design and build the 30’ tall x 45’ canopy diameter naturalistic banyan tree. The tree will also incorporate a clubhouse (an element that will be provided by outside vendors).

The main goal of the Banyan Tree exhibit is to inspire children to actively explore the environment, coordinate and challenge their bodies as they move through space, investigate sounds, smells and sights of the natural world, cooperate with other visitors as they share space, use their imaginations to play out both familiar and unfamiliar roles and experiences and engage in play patterns that facilitate invention, creativity, leadership, and cooperation.

To learn more about NatureMaker’s museum projects visit us at one of the following shows this spring:

ACM’s InterActivity – May 7, 2010, St. Paul, MN, Booth 33

AAM’s Annual Meeting & MusuemExpo – May 24-26, 2010, Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth 735