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  Celebration of Play Family Event   

Celebration of Play Family Event

  • Location: Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Springfield
  • Date: Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Free with Museum admission

Play is a wonderful way to learn. The Illinois State Museum invites families to playfully learn with marble painting, historic games and toys, shadow puppets, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, and more. Celebration of Play will honor the life of Mary Ann MacLean and the Museum’s children’s Play Museum exhibit that bears her name.​

Celebration of Play is sponsored by bankwithBOS

Also on September 24, the Museum is participating in Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day Live event. Visitors can print or download two free adult admission tickets by visiting https://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-day-live-2016/tickets/​. Regular Museum admission for adults is $5. Youth under age 19, seniors 65 and older, veterans, and active duty military personnel are free.

Please visit illinoisstatemuseum.org or contact Elizabeth Bazan at elizabeth.bazan@illinois.gov or 217-782-5993 for more information.

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