A new exhibit has been unveiled at the Curious Kids Museum Discovery Zone exploring the things that can be found in a kitchen, and it’s a partnership between the museum and the Whirlpool Foundation.
Curious Kids Director Lori Marciniak told us at Wednesday’s unveiling that “Secret Ingredients: The Inner Workings and Hidden Histories of Your Kitchen” gives kids a safe way to learn all about the things they see at home every day.
“Kitchens are very familiar to children, but there’s also a lot of things they can’t touch,” Marciniak said. “It’s hot, it’s sharp. So, to be able to bring everything right sized down to them and allow them to turn every knob and to use wooden knives that they can cut things in, it’s just empowering and it’s a happy place.”
The exhibit features several kitchens from different eras, a giant replica of a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, a Dance Dance Revolution type game enabling kids to power a washer with their feet, and a huge laundry ringer they can push themselves through.
Whirlpool’s Pam Klyn told us this has been in the works for about two years.
“We had engineers involved, we had people from our community relations team involved in what it could look like, what are the important elements to bring to life through this, what are some important historical moments in time that we would want to highlight,” Klyn said.
The Whirlpool Foundation is the primary funder of the exhibit. It’ll be a traveling exhibit, later to be available for children’s museums across the country to rent, generating revenue for Curious Kids’ Museum.
Secret Ingredients: The Inner Workings and Hidden Histories of Your Kitchen” will be at the Discovery Zone through the summer.
