![The children’s museum in Deming, New Mexico has a space station where children can dress up as astronauts and explore the planets and stars. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Monica Topham, Play Sharity’s Deming-branch director](/images/resized/images/news/2016/446_oct20/6_100_100.jpg)
Parent group aims to bring children’s museum to Gallup
Children’s museums across the country serve as informal learning opportunities for young kids. From space to hands-on activities about the Earth, children’s museums cover a multitude of topics that expand kids’ minds. But almost all of them have one thing in common: they are located in major U.S. cities.
However, a group of parents want to change that and bring a children’s museum to Gallup.
In an interview with the Sun, one group member, Laura Ippel, said that they took inspiration from the Play Sharity Museum in Deming, New Mexico.
They drove down to Deming and met with the Play Sharity board, which is made up of...