DuPage Children’s Museum presents New TRAINS – All Aboard Art! an exhibition on view Monday, September 17. Located on the second floor of the Museum, the Interact with Art Gallery exhibit will feature lots of new arts-based learning opportunities, with plenty of interactive features to keep young hands and minds busy as children discover the wonder of train transportation.
Through the exhibit, children will enter one artist’s interpretation of trains by role-playing engineer, passenger or conductor in a child-size train based on cubist artist Gino Severini’s “Red Cross Train.” The style and colors in the painting will be reflected in this play train, as well as in a new model train setting. An engine-mounted video camera provides children with the engineer’s point of view as the train travels this brightly colored cubist landscape.
The exhibit will also include an eight-foot wide “hidden pictures” mural of artist Don Stewart’s “Steam Train.” Children and adults can work together to find the list of objects that make up the huge locomotive. Children also can use “seek and find cards” to search for objects found in a variety of new train art posted on the walls of the exhibit. The artwork and activities are designed to encourage child-adult interaction and conversation, helping to build an appreciation for art while developing creativity and critical thinking skills.
Specially designed wooden train tables and a huge new interactive crane are just two more of the other new experiences awaiting discovery.
RAINS – All Aboard Art! is sponsored by CenterPoint Properties, BNSF Foundation and Kinder Morgan Foundation. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council help support the arts throughout the year at DCM.
About DuPage Children’s Museum
DuPage Children’s Museum is a top Chicago-area cultural attraction…where learning comes in to play®! Via interactive exhibits and programs that make learning fun for children and adults playing together, DuPage Children’s Museum helps develop curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem solving in young children. The Museum is located at 301 N. Washington Street in Naperville, Illinois, a quick walk from the Naperville Metra train station. Parking is free and the building is wheelchair accessible. For information about hours, Museum admission and membership packages, visit www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org or call (630) 637-8000.