The Children's Museum holiday schedule; new 'Mud' exhibit

The Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge will be closed on Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve Day, and New Year’s Day. For questions about the Museum or its schedule, visit https://childrensmuseumofoakridge.org or call (865) 482-1074.

Inclement Weather?If the Children’s Museum is closed because of weather it will be posted on Facebook, Instagram, and the Museum’s website at https://childrensmuseumofoakridge.org. For school days, if the Oak Ridge Schools are closed the Children’s Museum will also be closed.

New Exhibition"Mud: A Photographic Exhibition of Life in the Secret City," will be on display in the Imagination Gallery of the Children’s Museum now through Jan. 29. This exhibition has been provided for display by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

During World War II, what we know today as Oak Ridge was a quickly built “secret” government town of 70,000 workers. This secret city was also blanketed in a thick layer of mud, something that all residents, regardless of their occupation, had to deal with. Most of the photographs in this exhibition were taken by James Edward “Ed” Westcott, a renowned photographer who worked for the U.S. government in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.

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