Greensboro Children's Museum Gets Major Upgrades With Help From The City

Greensboro City Council members recently approved a plan to help the Greensboro Children's Museum finish the first phase of its project, chipping in $250,000 to help pay for the work.The money comes from the parks and recreation bond voters passed in November.

The new features include a technology center, indoor water station and picnic area. But museum CEO Marian King says the biggest highlight will be the new outdoor play plaza. It features two 30-foot high pyramids for climbing.

"Each one can hold up to 200 people. They're side-by-side pyramids and at about 26 feet between them is a net tunnel that will connect them. There are only two types of these types of structures in the United States and only seven in the world, and they've never built it with this connector in the middle, so we are excited because we will have something that isn't found anywhere else. It's something very special for our community and the Triad region.”

The money is in addition to $2.6 million the Children's Museum has already raised. The outdoor climbing playground is expected to open in the spring. Work on the indoor projects is scheduled to start in the summer.

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