The Tea House contains mushroom chairs and a mushroom table specially sized for children. There are multicolored wood pictures and benches on the walls surrounding the mushroom furniture. The Tea House is located right next to the Turtle pond, which is a beautiful, little pond where the Discovery Museum turtles can be found swimming during the day. The Turtle Pond also has a bird house, bird bath and miniature statues to compliment the pond.

The Adventure Garden also has the Subaru Edible Garden, which will grow different types of fruits and vegetables during the warm weather. Right next to the Edible Garden is a picnic area with tables and chairs for museum guests to enjoy lunch in the sunshine. Guests can bring their own lunch or purchase something from our own J-Dogs Cafe! Finally, there is the Subaru Butterfly Garden that grows plants and flowers that will attract caterpillars and butterflies throughout the summer.

Come into the Discovery Museum starting Saturday, June 1st to experience all the fun exhibits the Adventure Garden has to offer!

During the cold weather, I am kept inside. It isn’t too bad because I have the company of my best friend, Briar. He’s a rabbit just like me, but he’s white and brown. With the warmer weather coming soon, we will be moved outside to play in the Adventure Garden outside of the Discovery Museum. Visitors to the museum will be able to pet me at certain times during the day. I love making new friends, so I hope you will come in to see me soon!

The Garden State Discovery Museum is pleased to announce its newest community partner and exhibit sponsor:  California Pizza Kitchen.  Born in Beverly Hills in 1985, California Pizza Kitchen is a leader in authentic Californiastyle cuisine and is widely known for its innovative menu items. At the Garden State Discovery Museum, California Pizza Kitchen has sponsored the construction of the California Fraction Kitchen:  a replica of their Cherry Hill Restaurant, that opened January 25, 2013. The California Fraction Kitchen focuses on math skills, colors, shapes, sorting, and of course fun!

The exhibit houses many hands-on learning opportunities:  a replica pizza oven, pizza assembly station, table top activities at the booths as well as CPK’s signature chef ware.  Visitors are able to order their pizza in increments of 1/2, 1/3, 1/8, etc.

Our tiny CPK chefs will prepare signature dishes to serve all the while “building a whole” focusing on how pieces can come together to create a single thing.  They can work side by side in the industrial open kitchen and serve up delicious pizza to all their customers.  The assembly station focuses on sorting and shapes and colors used to compile different kinds of pizza.

Children also have the opportunity to explore the different positions held in a restaurant kitchen:  Head chef, expeditor, prep chef, server, host/hostess and take out staff.

Feed your appetite for fun and visit the California Fraction Kitchen on your next visit!!!

Did you know that back in 2008 the Garden State Discovery Museum, in collaboration with Temple Beth Shaloms’s Home and School Association, built the Noah’s Ark Play Center? The ark is surrounded by hand painted murals of animals (two by two), in their natural habitats. The Noah Arks Play Center enables children to climb, run and fish off the side of the ark, roll balls down the ship’s galley, communicate through sound tubes, search the skies through giraffe periscopes and slide down the ark’s slides. The play center was built to promote interactive play and learning and to help develop gross motor skills.

We here at the museum have lost one of our “Discovery Family”, Art Silver…who passed away of a heart attack on December 29^th.  Art was a board member of our CFL, and a long-time friend and supporter…pictured here at our 10^th Anniversary Celebration with executive director Roree Iris-Williams.

Active and involved in many things, he had a genuine love for life and most notably his family…his wife Rebecca, their children Sara (John) Honovich & Sam (Jane) Silver, and grandchildren Jessica & Julia Honovich and Dana & Jennifer Silver . Art was away on vacation with the people he loved doing something he so enjoyed, and this is how we will remember him…with bright eyes and a bright smile.

All our love to Rebecca and the entire family…