Join us for the highly anticipated opening day to the newest traveling exhibits, The Amazing Castle and Framed: Step into Art filled with special Saturday Science demonstrations, animal meet and greets, and more! From flaming hands to dragon flight challenges, you will not want to miss this day full of magic and fun. There will be a special showing of How to Train Your Dragon at 12:00 p.m. in the PCI Digital Dome Theater. Seating is very limited, so be sure to come secure your spot.
Title Sponsor: Mobile County – District 2
Supporting Sponsors: Spire Energy & Adline Clarke
Travel back in time to a fanciful, medieval village, filled with opportunities for problem-solving, storytelling and imaginative play. Plant and harvest your own vegetables in the garden while building a chair or making your own design in the carpenters workshop. Use a metal patch to fix a hole in the blacksmith workshop, and dress in costumes and role-play as lords, ladies, and castle villagers.
As visitors explore The Amazing Castle and its eight themed areas, they will encounter graphic panels introducing seven citizens who are part of the castle community. From entertaining to sewing, each citizen has a special duty to do. As they move through the castle, visitors can playfully explore ideas related to community life. Children will experience the interconnectedness of individuals as they interact with friends, family and new acquaintances.
Exhibit Entry and Big Book
The Keep
The Great Hall and Garden
Royal Puppet Theatre
The Royal Workshops
The Dragon Tower
Travel back in time to a fanciful, medieval village, filled with opportunities for problem-solving, storytelling and imaginative play. Plant and harvest your own vegetables in the garden while building a chair or making your own design in the carpenters workshop. Use a metal patch to fix a hole in the blacksmith workshop,
Children and adults can enjoy a pretend noontime meal in Grant Wood’s “Dinner for Threshers,” climb into a tent and explore camping gear in John Singer Sargent’s “Camp at Lake O’Hara,” add corn husks to the flower tower in Diego Rivera’s “Corn Festival” and get behind the reins of a giant rooster in an area inspired by Clementine Hunter’s artwork. Visitors can also explore a collection of “Mona Lisa” prints and famous parodies, then step behind a cutout version and replace her famous face with their own.
“Dinner for Threshers” by Grant Wood
Enter Grant Wood’s “Dinner for Threshers” and learn about rural life at the turn of the century. Visitors tend to a chicken and eggs, prepare a meal in the kitchen, set the dining table, enjoy a pretend dinner and mix and match the farmers’ patterned shirts.
“Camp at Lake O’Hara” by John Singer Sargent
Visitors travel to the Canadian Rockies in 1916 at John Singer Sargent’s “Camp at Lake O’Hara.” Children climb inside a tent and explore camping gear like Sargent would have used. After cooking a pretend meal over the campfire, kids tell stories around the fire and arrange items in a magnetic frame to show what a painting of today’s campsite might look like.
“Corn Festival” by Diego Rivera
Travel south of the border through this piece from the Court of Fiestas in the Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City. Visitors explore a rendition of one of Rivera’s frescos, add flowers and ribbons of corn husks to the flower tower for a celebration and include their flourish in a mural on a miniature building.
Clementine Hunter
Step inside a world inspired by the artwork of folk art icon Clementine Hunter. Load a cart with zinnia flowers, then climb behind the reins of a giant rooster and take the load to town. Create imaginary creatures like Hunter’s “goosters” by mixing parts from different animals.
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