Children’s Museum Adds Downtown Cityscape Exhibit
The actual cityscape of California’s capital city is the newest and very popular exhibit at the Sacramento Children’s Museum (SCM), 2701 Prospect Park Drive in Rancho Cordova.
The display includes the Capitol, the Ziggurat (the pyramid-shaped building), the Wong Tower, Tower Bridge, plus other downtown structures and a couple “futuristic” buildings. Old Town is represented with older-looking structures. The Sacramento and American Rivers are lit up with blue lights. And the surrounding thoroughfare and interior streets provide roadways for children to run cars, trucks, trains, and other vehicles.
Realistic sounds include train whistles, horses clomping, cars honking, dogs barking, and other city noises. Color appropriate wooden blocks are the “nuts and bolts” for each building and can be used to replicate actual buildings or children can use their imaginations to create their own structural designs. The exhibit was designed and built by Sacramento based Stage Nine Design.
“Plus, we have CityWays Junior that features large soft blocks that fit together or can be used for free-form structures,” said Sharon Stone Smith, SCM’s executive director. “It’s designed for our younger visitors but is popular with the older kids, too.”
The new CityWays adds to the other SCM attractions that include Airways, My Neighborhood, Leo’s Market, Studio of Arts, and Baby Bloomers that encourage young children to create, wonder, test, and laugh.
For more information, call (916) 638-7225 or visit sacramentochildrensmuseum.org.
