Community Children's Museum

Community Children’s Museum, located at 77 East Blackwell St. Dover, will be open from 10am -5pm on President’s Day Monday, February 20^th to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of John Glenn’s orbit around the earth in NASA’s Friendship 7 space capsule. Do you know who the President was when John Glenn was an astronaut? Find out at the museum’s President’s Day celebration and try out the newly renovated Friendship 7 space capsule that now simulates a real mission with sound effects, visuals and lots of buttons to push. A highlight of the day will be from 12:30-1:30 when Adrienne and Kerry, two Mountview Road School teachers, will share their first hand experiences with NASA and bring the same experiment that they did with magnets in NASA’s “Weightless Wonder” . They will show pictures of their trip and answer any questions. In addition, throughout the day there will glove box experiments to try, space work suit to try on, a chance to see and touch a real replica of a space suit and make space related crafts to take home.

“On February 20, 1962, John Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit Earth. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Friendship 7 capsule carrying Glenn reached a maximum altitude of 162 miles and an orbital velocity of 17,500 miles per hour. After more than four hours in space, having circled the earth three times, Glenn piloted the Friendship 7 back into the atmosphere and landed in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. Glenn's success helped inspire the great army of people working to reach the Moon.”

The Community Children’s Museum is a non profit organization where children can explore and learn through hands on fun in art, science and world cultures.  The Museum’s hours are Thursday thru Saturday 10am to 5pm admission is $5 per person 6 months thru adults and $4 for seniors.  Birthday parties and groups 10 or more can be scheduled anytime. Funding for the museum has been made possible in part by the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.  For more information call (973) 366-9060 or visit www.communitychildrensmuseum.org