Campbell Gallery Exhibit: “Children Just Like Me”

• Event Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008–Sunday, May 3, 2009
• Time: During regular museum hours (CDT)
• Location: Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

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“Children Just Like Me” is an engaging, hands-on exhibit that invites young museum visitors to learn about the diversity of world cultures by meeting peers who live in different countries around the globe. In addition, this unique exhibit also reveals how many children, regardless of where they live, hold important aspects of life in common.

Visit the exhibit and …

• meet Erdene, a young Mongolian boy who loves racing horses and can teach you the horse-racing game called Shagai;
• enter Celina's Brazilian rain forest world, where you can stretch out in her sleeping hammock or climb into her canoe; and
• spend time with Levi, an energetic Inuk boy who lives on an island in the Arctic Ocean and is happy to show off his ice skates or share his toy racecars.

During “Children Just Like Me,” visitors exploring the Spurlock Museum’s galleries will encounter life-sized images of eleven children, each one welcoming other children to enter a three-dimensional representation of his or her home and surroundings. These hands-on learning environments and other interactive elements are designed to strengthen cross-cultural connections through a variety of learning styles. While engaged in multi-sensory activities, young learners will discover the languages, foods, music, clothing and more of the children represented.

This traveling exhibit was produced by the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal and is based on DK Publishing’s award-winning book by the same title, “Children Just Like Me”™. The Spurlock Museum’s changing exhibits are made possible through a gift from Allan C. and Marlene S. Campbell and supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.