For Kids and Families
Joyce and Avrum Gray & Family
Children’s Center
Sketches of the new Children's Center by Odile Compagnon.
Coming later this year!
Created in partnership with Redmoon Theater Artistic Director Jim Lasko and Design Consultant Odile Compagnon, the new Children's Center will offer imaginative hands-on activities that focus on the building blocks of literacy—letters, language, and storytelling—inspired by text and literature in Jewish tradition.
Families and school groups will love our interactive alphabet video wall, rope climbing tube, kinetic marble sculpture, toy theater telling the story of creation, floor-to-ceiling reproductions of Gustav Doré’s engravings of scenes from the book of Genesis, and more. Hear stories inspired by Jewish tradition and create and share your own!
Adjacent to the exhibition, the Parent-Teacher Resource Room will provide materials to enhance a child's experience in all of Spertus Museum's galleries.
Sketches of the letters F, K, M, and V, by costume designer Tatiana Radisic, Redmoon Theater.
Guided tours and classroom activities align with Illinois Learning Standards across multiple curriculum areas and grade levels.
For the blossoming storyteller, watch for announcements about how to enter our inaugural Storytelling Competition!
Contact Spertus Museum's Education Department at 312.322.1793 or museum@spertus.edu for more information or to schedule your tour.
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Spertus Museum is partially supported by a CityArts Program 4 Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, The Mayer & Morris Kaplan Family Foundation, The Orbit Fund, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
Spertus' new Children's Center and programs for Chicago Public School students and teachers are made possible in part by a generous grant from the Polk Bros. Foundation. Additional support for these programs is provided by the Charles & M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc. and the Walter & Caroline Sueske Charitable Trust.
