{"id":3102,"date":"2018-07-23T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2025-01-29T07:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:48:37","slug":"editorial-our-children-deserve-new-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/editorial-our-children-deserve-new-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: As nossas crian\u00e7as merecem um novo museu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Read the full article below or on the VC Star s\u00edtio Web<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a parent wishing Ventura County offered your kids more to do during the\u00a0long summer break and throughout the year, you may be interested in the efforts of a dedicated group of folks in Camarillo.<\/p>\n

The group is trying to open a children\u2019s museum and last month reached a milestone. The Camarillo City Council on June 13 unanimously approved a deal giving the museum a potential home \u2014 the city\u2019s old library at 3100 Ponderosa Drive.<\/p>\n

We have long touted the cultural, educational and economic benefits of local museums, and we are especially excited about the prospect of one that caters to children. The county has been without a children\u2019s museum since Gull Wings in Oxnard closed in January 2016, and we encourage parents, educators, civic leaders and anyone else interested in nurturing the young minds of our community to support this new effort.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the planned kidSTREAM\u00a0museum\u00a0(science, technology, reading, engineering, arts and math) spent 18 months researching the project\u2019s design, economic and fundraising feasibility and other issues before reaching the agreement with Camarillo, board chairwoman Kristie Akl told The Star last week. Some of that work can be viewed on the group\u2019s website, kidstream.org, and it reveals one of the more impressive research efforts we\u2019ve seen by a local nonprofit lately.<\/p>\n

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California Lutheran University economics professor Jamshid Damooei, for example, led a study on the museum\u2019s projected economic and social impacts. The study predicts the museum would generate 45 jobs and nearly $9 million annually for the local economy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It also points out that children\u2019s museums help young people develop essential skills, spur creativity and discovery, bring families together and serve as community gathering places. \u201cKids don\u2019t get nearly enough opportunities for hands-on, unsupervised exploratory play,\u201d developmental psychologist Richard Rende writes in his Inside Parenting blog for Psychology Today. \u201cChildren\u2019s museums not only provide that, but they also serve as a lesson for what we need to bring back to childhood, and what we need to limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Akl, a former teacher who launched the museum effort, says the group needs to raise $15 million and hopes to complete the project within three\u00a0years. Camarillo agreed to lease part of the library to the group now for fundraising and other planning tasks, and to later sell it the property for $900,000.<\/p>\n

We applaud Akl and her board, the Camarillo City Council, the Ventura County Community Foundation and others supporting this worthy effort, and we encourage you to do the same at kidstream.org.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}