Louisville is receiving a new museum designed similarly to the City Museum of St. Louis: Portland Museum’s Adventure House of You (AHOY). The AHOY Museum will be an exploratory adventure for children to travel through and learn about themselves.
The Portland Museum, in Louisville’s Portland neighborhood, began in the 1970s as students at Roosevelt Elementary began curating neighborhood artifacts into exhibitions at the school. When the amount of artifacts piled up, the students traveled to Washington, D.C. and received a large grant to officially create the museum.
Now, the Portland Museum has started construction on the AHOY Children’s Museum, its latest project. The building is focused on interactive, play-based experiences for children. While Louisville has many activities for children, this project is centered in the West End, where opportunities for children to play freely are inadequate. Additionally, the museum is being used to create an area for children to play specifically in Louisville and not outside the city or the state…