Three New Reading-Themed Exhibits Come to Kohl Children’s Museum

This fall,
Kohl Children’s Museum will present three new reading-focused exhibits specifically
designed to encourage literacy for young children. The temporary exhibit “Storyland: A Trip Through Childhood Favorites”
allow kids to immerse themselves in a life-sized world of seven award-winning
childhood favorites, while “Sheridan’s
Books and Crannies,” a new permanent exhibit, will reinvent the Museum’s
“Play Library.”  The third element, Storywalk, will be installed as part of
the Museum’s two-acre outdoor Habitat Park. 

“Storyland:
A Trip Through Childhood Favorites” transforms seven beloved and award-winning
picture books into three-dimensional and bilingual (English and Spanish) play
and learning environments that highlight the six pre-reading skills.

“Sheridan’s
Books and Crannies” is a new permanent exhibit, reinventing the
museum’s current “Play Library” exhibit as a pretend bookstore. This new and
improved exhibit will feature an inviting reading loft, various comfy reading
nooks where kids can snuggle up to read, and a regularly-changing array of
children’s books and periodicals.

“Storywalk” is a temporary
exhibit in Habitat Park, the museum’s two-acre nature park on the museum’s
campus. The exhibit will display 18
child-height stands placed throughout the park, each displaying two pages of
“Leaves” by David Ezra Stein.

Exhibits are free with museum admission.