Pointillism is a artistic technique where you make a picture using just dots. The most famous example is “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat. Today, we are going to use dots to make a picture of the states of matter
STEAM Learning Lab
Join Discovery Gateway every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for our STEAM Learning Lab! While the museum is temporarily closed we will continue to bring programming to you and your family!
STEAM Learning Lab
Join Discovery Gateway every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for our STEAM Learning Lab! While the museum is temporarily closed we will continue to bring programming to you and your family!
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Take advantage of all the time at home with this fun activity! Teach you child all about Hildegard of Bingen and their perception of light!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Jacob Adamson is the Design Project Coordinator at Discovery Gateway where he develops existing and new exhibits within the museum.
Discovery Gateway 2020 Summer Camps
Discovery Gateway has an amazing selection of summer camps to keep your child’s gears turning all summer! Explore STEAM concepts with Discovery Gateway and its partners, Red Butte Garden, Samba Fogo, the Natural History Museum of Utah, and Clark Planetarium! Let your child discover the world and beyond with Discovery Summer Camps!
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This week we celebrated President’s Day at Discovery Gateway! It was a day dedicated to learning about our presidents.
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Service with a smile! Discovery Gateway is proud to have our admission staff front and center and the first person to greet you when coming to the museum! We are so happy to have people like Kallie Filanda to help with checking in patrons, assisting with memberships, and answering any questions!
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This week we celebrated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at Discovery Gateway! It was a great day filled with inspiring speeches, activities and crafts that helped children to learn the importance of acceptance, understanding, and compassion!
First Utah Bank Discovery Branch
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, a non-profit organization, is proud to announce the recently opened First Utah Bank Discovery Branch!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
As a nonprofit, we must fundraise for about half of our operating costs. With the help from our Development Officer, Cristi Meyer, we are able to raise the funds we need through grants, donors, and fundraising campaigns!
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christamas at Discovery Gateway! With Christmas is just around the corner, we are making fun and easy gifts that your children can make for their friends and family!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Education has always been important to Discovery Gateway, and that is why we have Laura Cotter as our Senior Manager of Education! She helps oversee all of onsite education and our outreach program that attends schools all around the state of Utah!
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America Recycles Day®, a program of Keep America Beautiful®, is a nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States. Every year on or around November 15 (America Recycles Day) event organizers educate neighbors, friends and colleagues about the wonders of recycling!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Christian Conde is an Imagination Facilitator at Discovery Gateway and has worked at the museum for about two years. Our Imagination Facilitators are amazing at providing a fun and safe environment for your family to learn through play!
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The month of July is all about space! This time we are going to make something that is fun for the whole family! Using simple materials, you can make your own Hover Crafts!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Alicia McKenney is the Graphic Designer at Discovery Gateway and has worked at the museum for over three years. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Southern Utah University. At Discovery Gateway, Alicia designs and creates graphics for exhibits, social media, billboards, bus and train ads, banners, you name it!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
Education is so important to Discovery Gateway, and we are proud to have such an amazing outreach team! We are able to bring science to many 5th grade classes all around the state! One of those educators is Mimi Andrews!
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The month of July is all about space! This time we are going to make something that is fun for the whole family! Using simple materials, you can make your own Hover Crafts!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
At Discovery Gateway, our Admission staff are the first people that greet you when walk into the museum! That’s why we have such amazing and fun people like Sawyer Wood working at the Admissions Desk!
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The month of July is all about space! This time we are going to make something that is fun for the whole family! Using simple materials, you can make your own Hover Crafts!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
At Discovery Gateway, we believe that education can be experienced in fun, new ways. That’s why we need educators like Laura Howell, who knows how to bring a classroom to life through hands-on activities!
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Learning through play at home can be simple and fun for the whole family! If you are looking for an easy activity to do with items you already have, Water Color Crayon Resist Painting is a great project for all ages!
All About Bees
What’s the Buzz?! We see them everywhere, but how much do you actually know about bees? These little guys do a lot more than just make honey!
Discovery Gateway Employee Highlight
It takes a colony to run a hive and Discovery Gateway is no exception! To give our visitors the best experience possible, we need some hardworking and passionate people. People like Juan Rios and Sawyer Wood!
Discovery Gateway Presents the Annual Community Bee Award to Salt Lake County’s Erin Litvack
Discovery Gateway’s leadership staff, and the members of the executive committee of the board, have chosen to honor Deputy Mayor of County Services and Chief Administrative Officer for Salt Lake County Erin Litvack with the 2018 Community Bee Award.
A Look Back on 40 Years at Discovery Gateway
2018 marks the Museum’s 40th anniversary as an organization! To celebrate Discovery Gateway’s 40th birthday, here is a look back on our history from the very beginning.
40th Bee-Day Bash Fundraiser on October 6!
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum’s 40th Bee-Day Bash Fundraiser will be held Saturday, October 6 from 6:30 until 9 p.m. The theme of Celebrating 40 Years of Learning Through Play applauds the historic milestones of the museum while painting a picture of a bold new future benefitting all of Utah’s children.
40 Ways Kids Learn Through Play
At Discovery Gateway, our mission is to inspire children of all ages and abilities to imagine, discover, and connect with their world to make a difference. We believe that this growth happens through play. To celebrate Discovery Gateway’s 40 Year Anniversary of Learning Through Play, here are 40 fun facts about play-time!
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Did you know? Discovery Gateway offers incredible Educational Outreach programs to schools all across Utah. This month, we are proud to highlight one of our outstanding Outreach Educators, Justina Bonaventura. Justina just celebrated her one year anniversary at Discovery Gateway.
