The Don Harrington Discovery Center announced this week that TreeHouses will be a featured new fall exhibit, on view from Monday, Sept. 16 through mid-January 2025.
DHDC said in a news release that the TreeHouses exhibit “includes fun, hands-on ways to explore the important roles that trees play in providing homes for all sorts of wild things. Incorporating all of the senses, this popular exhibit engages forest explorers of all ages in indoor nature explorations and the ecology of sustainable harvesting of these important natural resources.”
Attendees can become environmental stewards by hanging out in trees at the museum and learning about “the secret lives of those who live amongst the trees. Families can explore and even design and build their own treehouse, stomp on the forest dance floor to listen and discover the sounds of the forest, and much more,” DHDC said.
The traveling exhibit was produced by the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative, which includes EcoTarium, Worcester, Massachusetts; ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont; and the Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland, Maine. Major support was provided from Jane’s Trust, as well as additional support by Cabot Family Charitable Trust and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.