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

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

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. 1 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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