Julie Butcher Pezzino, executive director of the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine, demonstrates the exhibit “Ramp Up,” an interactive ball sculpture. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer Buy this Photo
By design, there aren’t many signs or directions telling kids what to do at the new Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine.
Just play – and maybe even try to fly.
“We’re big on trial and error,” said Julie Butcher Pezzino, the museum’s executive director as she demonstrated the exhibition “Ramp Up,” which involves small rubber balls moving swiftly through a maze of pneumatic air tubes. “We really want kids to figure it out for themselves.”
With large open spaces and windows full of light, Maine’s newest cultural complex opens to the public at its new location at 250 Thompson’s Point Road in Portland on Thursday. Gov. Janet Mills will…
