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The Mississippi Children's Museum is a children's museum with locations in Jackson, Mississippi and Meridian, Mississippi. The location in Jackson is situated within the LeFleur's Bluff Education and Tourism Complex, [1] and it was completed in 2010. [2] In 2021, the museum was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. [3] [4]
This list of museums in Mississippi encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Children's Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks merged in July 2016, and the new entity was named Kaleideum in February 2017. Kaleidoscope (Kansas City, Missouri) Kansas City: Missouri: Kearney Area Children's Museum: Kearney: Nebraska: Kern County Museum: Bakersfield: California: Kidcity Children's Museum: Middletown: Connecticut ...
Area code Service area Notes 209: Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Turlock; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra Nevada range. Split from 415 on October 26, 1957; split off 559 on November 14, 1998; overlaid with 350 on November 28, 2022 213: Much of the City of Los Angeles and several inner suburbs
Area code 559 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the central San Joaquin Valley in central California. The numbering plan area includes the counties of Fresno, Madera, Kings, and Tulare, an area largely coextensive with the Fresno and Visalia-Porterville metropolitan areas. The area code was placed in service in ...
The five-building museum campus was designed by architect Frank Gehry to "dance" with the ancient live oak trees on the 4-acre (1.6-hectare) site. Construction of museum buildings began in 2004. [4] In August 2005, the museum was damaged during Hurricane Katrina, when a casino barge was washed onto the semi-constructed facility.
Local news outlets reported that the repurposed facility would house as many as 2,000 children and teens at the hotels that were part of the Harrah’s casino complex, which closed in 2014.
The Detroit Children's Museum (1917) [15] The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (1925) [16] – according to the ACM, this is the world's largest children's museum. [2] The Children's Museum (West Hartford, CT) (1927) [17] Duluth Children's Museum (1930) [18] By 1975, there were approximately 38 children's museums in the United States.