The Detroit Children’s Museum is preparing to welcome visitors again by the end of the year, marking the end of a 15-year period when the public couldn’t walk through its doors openly.
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Detroit Children’s Museum to reopen to public after 15 years with free admission
The museum, which houses 2.5 million artifacts collected over more than a century, has secured over $800,000 in grant funding that will allow it to operate as a public attraction for the next two years.
Don Bogart, the museum’s curator who has dedicated the past decade and a half to preserving the collection, has watched over the artifacts like a guardian. When his son Henry was crawling around the museum floor as a toddler in 2009, Bogart was already deeply committed to the institution. Now, Henry is a teenager, and Bogart’s dedication hasn’t wavered.
“The children’s museum is my third child,” Bogart said.
The museum’s journey began in 1917, moving locations several times before settling at its most well-known spot off Kirby Street in 1957. In 2001, it relocated to its current home on 2nd Avenue…