KID Museum

KID Museum (Kids’ Innovation & Discovery) is a children's museum and child-oriented maker space in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland.

KID Museum entrance, 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 140, Bethesda, MD
Entrance to the KID Museum at Davis Library in Bethesda, MD

In May of 2022, KID Museum opened a new location in Downtown Bethesda that provides a larger space for activities ranging from wood shop to robotics.[1] The new space is nearly four times the size of the old space on the lower floor of Bethesda's Davis Library which will remain open for some programming.[2][3][4][5] More than 330,000 people have visited the KID Museum since it opened in 2014. [2]

The Washington Post describes KID as "The museum’s hands-on programs teach skills such as collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, as well as such technical skills as designing and building and even using power tools."[6]

References
  1. Gronowski, Gianna (23 May 2022). "KID Museum Opens New Location in Bethesda". Montgomery Community Media. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. Schere, Dan (23 May 2022). "KID Museum to reopen in Bethesda this weekend". Montgomery Community Media. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. Cooper, Rebecca (3 June 2017). "Here's the plan to bring a children's museum back to Greater Washington". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  4. Goldchain, Michelle (4 January 2017). "D.C.'s next children's museum will be at Fort Totten, deliver 2019". Curbed. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  5. Rogers, Bethany (May 2018). "County, City of Rockville Mull Plan To Buy Office Building as New Home for KID Museum". Bethesda Magazine. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  6. Kaplan, Sarah (10 October 2014). "New science museums in the D.C. area are hands-on fun for kids". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 January 2017.

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