Julie's Journal 4/19/2010

Julie Johnson is the new Director of the Detroit Children's Museum under its new association with the Detroit Science Center. Julie will be blogging her thoughts as she works toward the reopening of this Detroit institution! Here is her sixth post:

"Hello all. Wow! There are so many changes occurring at the DCM. Silverbolt is back in front of the building and is all spruced up. He looks great. I would like to thank all of our visitors for stopping by on March 21 for our first Open House. We had over 100 people stop by to take a sneak peak. Our next Open House is this weekend Saturday April 24 from 11-3. We will have our planetarium open with a night sky show. We will also have two hands-on activities specifically for space science Seltzer Rockets and Solar Bead Bracelets. Of course our exhibits will be there along with our regular hands-on activities. We are looking forward to sharing this with you. Hope to see you there!

Over the past week or so we have been busy inventorying all of the artifacts and equipment, getting behind the scenes operations up and running and getting all of our programs ready for the summer and fall. This is an exciting time for our staff as we try to incorporate all the ideas we have. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see. Let us know. We'd love to hear them. Thanks for all of your support."

Julie Johnson