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The Long Island Children’s Museum (LICM) is a
Children's museum Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums feat ...
located on the campus of
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in
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History

The museum was established in 1993 in the old Newsday building across from
Roosevelt Field Mall Roosevelt Field is a shopping mall in East Garden City, New York and Uniondale, New York. It was designed by I. M. Pei and is the largest shopping mall on Long Island, in the state of New York, and the eighth largest shopping mall in the United ...
in East Garden City. It moved in 2001 to a former
airplane hangar A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word ''hangar'' comes from Middle French ''hanghart'' ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish ...
with 40,000 square feet spread over two stories. The county provided the hangar rent-free under a 60-year lease and the museum is to keep all revenue.


Description

It has 12 galleries with interactive exhibits, three studio workshops and a 150-seat theater. The museum can host over 250,000 visitors per year. The outdoor play area, known as "Our Backyard," opens each spring. The play area has become the most popular part of the museum and includes vegetable gardens where visitors can harvest various vegetables directly from the garden.


Awards

LICM is a recipient of the
National Medal for Museum and Library Service The National Medal for Museum and Library Service is an award given annually by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to American libraries and museums with outstanding service to their communities. The IMLS refers to the medal as "t ...
and has been designated a "Primary Institution" by the
New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell (1905–1996), ...
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See also

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List of museums on Long Island This list of museums on Long Island is a list of museums in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. (Museums in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, which are also physically located on Long Island, are found in List of museums in New ...


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External links

* {{cite web , url = https://www.licm.org/ , title = Official museum website , access-date = October 21, 2020 Children's museums in New York (state) Garden City, New York Museums established in 1993 1993 establishments in New York (state)