Newtown's EverWonder Museum Encourages Learning Through Stories

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Who doesn't love a story? At EverWonder Children's Museum in Newtown, "Story Lab" is a once a week event that tends to draw young children and their caregivers.

An EverWonder staff member reads to children during 'Story Lab." Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

A girl listens to stories on mom's lap at the EverWonder Children's Museum. Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

A boy listens to stories at EverWonder Children's Museum. Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

A staff member reads to kids at Everwonder's 'Story Lab.' Photo Credit: *Skip Pearlman*

Jeanne Muchnick

06/09/2016 5:30 a.m.

The museum, founded in January 2011, prides itself on cultivating a lifelong love-of-learning for children by encouraging them to think, inquire, and wonder about the world around them.

Among the exhibits, guests will find an art lab, a three-wheeled racer car track, a magnet table, tornado tubes, a giant pendulum, a dancing wall and a swinging art harmonograph.

The museum is at 31 Peck's Lane, (203) 364-4009, www.everwondermuseum.org/.

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