The Children’s Museum of the Upstate is partnering with Prisma Health for a makeover of its well being exhibit. The exhibit opened to the general public March 12.
Titled “Your Wholesome Physique,” the exhibit covers 1,600 sq. toes of the museum and options walk-in fashions of the center, mind, lungs and abdomen. The shows are hands-on, permitting kids to interact in imaginative and interactive play.
Youngsters may attempt their hand at being a doctor, with a chance to look at teddy bears — and scrub in for surgical procedure. They’ll study frequent medical procedures and instruments.
A mountain climbing wall and stability beam had been there previously, however they’ve been given a totally new look to encourage kids to remain bodily lively.
“The Youngsters’s Museum of the Upstate is immensely grateful for the assist from Prisma Well being to make this unbelievable renovation potential,” mentioned Lauren Luneckas, TCMU’s govt director. The exhibit is designed to assist introduce kids to wholesome habits and medical procedures in a nonthreatening surroundings to acclimate them to the well being care system.
Prisma Well being licensed youngster life specialist Taylor Stathes mentioned as a result of medical professionals use huge phrases, they usually need to develop alternate terminology that kids will be capable of perceive. That was a lot of the inspiration for the design of the displays.
“There’s loads of room for misinterpretation,” she mentioned. She hopes the exhibit will scale back the stress kids face after they get to the physician’s workplace.
“The Youngsters’s Museum of the Upstate is immensely grateful for the assist from Prisma Well being to make this unbelievable renovation potential,” mentioned Lauren Luneckas, TCMU’s govt director.
“We’re excited to mix the experience of pediatricians, pediatric youngster life specialists and the kids’s museum design staff to show kids about their our bodies and learn how to preserve themselves wholesome,” mentioned Dr. Robin LaCroix, medical director of Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital-Upstate.
Together with Prisma, many minds got here collectively to conceptualize, design, assemble and prepare the displays, Luneckas mentioned. The museum has an in-house staff that develops displays, however the design and fabrication of the displays goes to firms in Ohio and Nebraska, respectively.
“We determined we actually needed kids understanding their our bodies and the way they will deal with their our bodies,” Luneckas mentioned.
For extra data, take a look at The Youngsters’s Museum of the Upstate at tcmupstate.org.
