Federal cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency have hit home in Naperville at the DuPage Children’s Museum.
An expected $84,000 grant to the museum from the Institute of Museum and Library Services has been terminated.
The money was meant to fund expanding the museum’s Questioneers exhibit, based on the New York Times best-selling children’s book series of the same name, written by Naperville author Andrea Beaty.
Loss of funding halts traveling exhibit plans
“That termination will prevent us from building an impactful traveling version of our Questioneers exhibit, which is about these fabulous kids, second graders, who are all about figuring out life, being resilient, being curious, and moving forward,” said Andrea Ingram, president of the DuPage Children’s Museum…