Jessica Moss Executive Director KidSenses Children’s Museum

Pictured left to right: Rutherfordton Garden Club President Cheryl Maszkiewicz, KidSenses Education Director Joseph Knight, KidSenses Garden Coordinator Amanda Strickland, and Rutherfordton Garden Club Publicity Chair Pamela Deck.

    The Rutherfordton Garden Club recently presented KidSenses Children’s Museum with a check for $1,000 for use in the Children’s Discovery Garden, which opened for the season on April 6th. The Discovery Garden, which is a 7,500 square-foot space just behind the museum facing Toms Street, serves as a hands-on environment where children and adults can discover a network of natural habitats, including plants, flowers, herbs, bees, butterflies, and a small stream ecosystem.

The Discovery Garden serves as an additional space for KidSenses’ Education Team to provide curriculum-based outdoor science education programs that are nature-focused. The Discovery Garden is now open Wednesday-Friday with guided experiences free with general admission at 10:00am, 11:00am, and 12:00pm. Call 828-286-2120 for more details.