Charlotte Mecklenburg Library has announced the 2025 summer exhibit at ImaginOn: The Joe & Joan Martin Center, at 300 East 7th Street, Charlotte.
Curious George: Let’s Get Curious will be available from May 17 to August 23, 2025, whenever ImaginOn is open. It’s designed for ages 3-7.
It’s open during ImaginOn building hours:
- Monday to Thursday: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- Friday and Saturday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ImaginOn is closed on Sundays from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
The 1,500 square-foot exhibit is free to visit, as is the rest of ImaginOn, including the Spangler Library, The Loft for Teens, The Block for Preteens, Studio I for teens and families and the Park Family Story Lab. Learn about what each of these areas has to offer at Imaginon.org.
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The exhibit features:
- Apartment Building– Operate wheels to move George on pulleys from window to window. Climb the fire escape and climb inside to play with color, light and shadow.
- Sidewalk Produce Stand– Play customer or salesperson and explore shape, sorting, weighing and counting with fruit and vegetables.
- Construction Site– Design a building, make use of a bounty of building materials and get to work constructing different structures and using machines to move materials.
- City Park– Enjoy the urban green space: rest or give a hug to a full-size George and take a picture! Our youngest visitors will enjoy our busy wall activities for babies and toddlers.
- Mini Golf– Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering as you putt through three holes of mini golf.
- Space Rocket– Step up to the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure! Pose for a picture with George in his space suit and e-mail it home.
- Farm- Take a vacation to the country and visit the farm. Experience cause and effect and use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs, windmills, windsocks, and wind chimes. Build your own whirligig and care for the farm animals.
- Museum Within the Museum– Learn new things about George when you visit the Museum within the Museum. Follow H.A. and Margret Rey’s work, the escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript, and Curious George throughout the years.
Learn more about Curious George: Let’s Get Curious.
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