Museum²Go, the community outreach division of the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, provides a wide variety of vibrant visual and performing arts programs. These programs are designed to educate and engender self-esteem building experiences while they entertain.

Museum²Go travels throughout greater Los Angeles, bringing these dynamic programs to you at your site. Our professional staff is available for performances and art workshops at schools, community centers, festivals, shopping malls…wherever children gather in organized, constructive play. Artist residencies and teacher workshops are available as well.

Museum²Go includes the following programs:

• Art²Go
• Teacher Workshops
• Reader's Theatre Project
• Reading Edge

For more information, contact us at 818.786.2656 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org 

Art²Go

Art2Go is the Museum's award-winning visual arts program, where children and adults turn everyday household items and light manufacturer's scrap into works of art. Exposing children to unique craft materials, this Museum²Go program allows them a variety of creative choices.  As the program travels throughout L.A.'s many diverse communities, it provides visual arts experiences that build confidence and promote the unique joy that comes from creating art.

To date, Art2Go has provided more than 15 tons of donated paper, plastic and other recyclable materials for youth-based projects.

For more information, contact us at 818.786.2656 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org

Teacher Workshops

Over the years, Museum²Go staff has been called upon to model visual and performing arts programming for educators. In recent years, as art programs continue to be eliminated from schools, we have been increasingly called upon to help in this area. Our goal is to provide educators the tools they need to confidently introduce art and theatre into their classrooms.

During Teacher Workshops, our facilitators work closely with the teachers, who receive hands-on experience in both the visual and performing arts. Training is done while the children remain in the classroom.  This gives teachers the opportunity to experience for themselves the methodology employed in all our Museum²Go programs.

For more information, contact us at 818.786.2656 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org

Reader’s Theatre Project

The Reader's Theatre Project is the Museum’s literacy based children’s theatre troupe. It absolutely complements the Museum’s mission to "educate, enrich, empower and entertain children" and spurs the imagination to further exploration. Staff created RTP to not only introduces children to books and reading in an inspiring and memorable way, but also to stimulate children to want to read on their own. Feeling a strong responsibility to introduce children to the joys of books and reading but recognizing that they could not teach them to read in a single visit, Museum²Go staff created this unique blend of theatre, music, story-telling and books.

Each of RTP’s 35-minute musical productions brings five children's picture books to life with professional actors, dancers and musicians from the Los Angeles performing arts community. Each book's text is presented exactly as it is written and its illustrations are projected on screens above the stage. All costumes and props are quoted from the illustrations and an original musical score is composed for each book by award winning composer, Scott Nagatani.

Since it was established in 1993, the Reader's Theatre Project has been very successful. It continues to be a favorite at a wide variety of venues throughout greater Los Angeles.

Check the CMLA website Calendar for performance locations. For more information, contact us at 818.786.2656 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org 

Reading Edge

Reading Edge is a high-impact, multi-dimensional Museum²Go outreach program that brings the excitement and novelty of discovery-based literacy, technology and arts learning to both formal and informal education settings. In Reading Edge, staffs meld elements of State Standards-based language arts, dramatic arts, and technology curricula into a two-hour per day, twice weekly, eight weeklong residency program.

 The program sequence begins with a riveting Reader's Theatre Project performance of classic pieces of children's literature. However, this drama is not just meant to be watched and imitated. Instead, the performance serves as a memorable and inspirational jumping-off point for children, teachers, and program staff to delve into the disciplines that make the performance great. During the eight-week residency, children write their own stories, illustrate those stories on computers, and turn their stories into a musical performance. They then rehearse their stories, create songs, choreography, costumes, backdrops and props. The residency concludes with a culminating event where children perform their stories for parents, siblings and fellow students.

Reading Edge’s programmatic methodology incorporates the elements of best teaching practices. The quality and quantity of learning for participants is deep and long lasting.

Children’s Museum of Los Angeles wishes to thank our Educational Partners:

• LA's Best
• Los Angeles Unified School District
• Vaughn Next Century Learning Center
• Pacoima Elementary School

Special thanks to our sponsor, Verizon, for their leadership in America's campaign to raise literacy levels; and to Tim McCallion, President-Pacific Region of Verizon, for his continued dedication and support of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles.

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