Museum2Go
Children's Museum2Go is an award-winning series of programs designed to bring the many facets of the Children's Museum of Los Angeles directly into the community. These vibrant, dynamic, mobile programs bring the Museum right to you while we build the new museum.
CM2GO programs will travel anywhere in the Los Angeles area. Our professional staff members are available for performances, workshops, seminars and special residencies at schools, community centers, playgrounds and shopping malls throughout the city.
Museum2Go includes the following programs:
Art2Go
This program builds on the Museum’s award-winning Environmental Arts program, which helps children (and adults) turn everyday household items and light manufacturer's scrap into works of art. By bringing this program directly into LA’s communities, the Museum has established fun recycle arts workshops to teach young people important lessons about the stewardship of the environment and about the importance and joy of creating art.
Reader's Theatre Project (RTP)
The RTP features the highly successful Children’s Museum Reader’s Theatre Project. This musical theatre program, presented by an ensemble of professional actors & musicians, brings children’s picture books to life and celebrates and encourages the joys of reading.
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 in both the visual and performing arts. Teachers get hands-on experience working directly with Museum facilitators while implementing a program in the classroom with their students. This gives teachers the opportunity to experience for themselves the methodology employed in all our Museum2Go programs.
For more information, contact us at 818.686.9280 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org
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.
Special thanks to our sponsors, 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.
For more information, contact us at 818.686.9280 ext. 131 or email frank@childrensmuseumla.org