Very Eric Carle Exhibit Opens
at Miami Children’s Museum
on Saturday, January 15th / 10AM
Miami, FL – Very Eric Carle: A Very Hungry, Quiet, Lonely, Clumsy, Busy Exhibit sponsored locally by PNC Bank opens at 10AM on Saturday, January 15, 2022 at Miami Children’s Museum. Co-organized by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, Very Eric Carle is the first North American traveling exhibit for children inspired by the art of beloved children’s book author and illustrator Eric Carle.
At this play-and-learn exhibit, visitors step into the pages of Eric Carle’s colorful picture books. His classic “Very” series, all illustrated in his hand-painted tissue paper collage technique, introduces five special insects who take journeys of discovery. Each story is a testament to Eric Carle’s love of nature, his respect for the emotional lives of children, and his recurring themes of friendship, creativity, and the power of imagination. Visitors will:
- Become the Very Hungry Caterpillar as they follow his path
- Weave a web with the Very Busy Spider
- Find their light with the Very Lonely Firefly
- Make the Very Clumsy Click Beetle flip and jump
- Compose a night symphony with the Very Quiet Cricket
- Enjoy a gallery of prints from Eric Carle’s “Very” book series
Very Eric Carle: A Very Hungry, Quiet, Lonely, Clumsy, Busy Exhibit sponsored locally by PNC Bank will be on display at Miami Children’s Museum, 980 MacArthur Causeway, Watson Island, Miami through Sunday, May 8, 2022 and then continues its multi-year tour as a traveling exhibit.
For more information about the Very Eric Carle Exhibit at Miami Children’s Museum, please visit miamichildrensmuseum.org. Museum admission is now being offered for two-hour play sessions from 10AM – 12PM, 1PM – 3PM and 4PM – 6PM. After each session team members clean and sanitize the facility and swap out props for the next group. Masks are required at all times for adults and children ages 2 and older. Admission to the Museum is $22 for adults and children, $15 for Florida Residents, free for children under 1 year and admission for Museum Members is complimentary. Advance ticket purchase is required through the Museum’s website miamichildrensmuseum.org as session tickets fill up quickly! The Museum is located at 980 MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island in Miami.
Miami Children’s Museum offers bilingual and interactive exhibits, programs, classes and learning materials related to arts, culture, community and communication. The Museum has 17 interactive galleries and houses many exciting and fun traveling exhibits. Miami Children’s Museum is dedicated to enriching the lives of all children by fostering a love of learning through play and enabling children to realize their highest potential. Through arts and educational programs, the Museum seeks to include and target all audiences in Miami’s changing and diverse community by being the “town center” for Miami-Dade County’s children and families.
Families can still access Miami Children’s Museum’s exciting “Museum at Home” program online, which brings the experiences of the Museum to the safety and comfort of one’s own home. Among the ways to access the program are:
Website: miamichildrensmuseum.org/museum-at-home
Facebook: facebook.com/miami.childrens.museum
Instagram: @miamichildrensmuseum
Twitter: @MiChiMu
YouTube: Miami Children’s Museum
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About Miami Children’s Museum
Founded in 1983, Miami Children’s Museum is dedicated to enriching the lives of all children by fostering a love of learning through play and enabling children to realize their highest potential. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to play, learn, imagine and create. The 56,500-square-foot facility includes 17 galleries, classrooms, a 200-seat auditorium and outdoor exhibits, including two playgrounds. The Museum offers hundreds of bilingual, interactive exhibits; programs and classes, including special needs classes; Subway restaurant; a Kid Smart educational gift shop and learning materials related to arts, culture, community and communication. To learn more about the museum, please visit www.miamichildrensmuseum.org.
Miami Children’s Museum’s programs are sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners and the City of Miami.
About Children’s Museum Pittsburgh
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (www.pittsburghkids.org) is a place that delights and inspires children, where they can take off on fantastic flights of imagination daily, and return to earth to splash in a river, hammer a nail and ink a silkscreen. With 80,000 square feet of space the Museum welcomes more than 307,000 visitors annually and provides tons of fun and loads of “real stuff” experiences for play and learning. Permanent hands-on, interactive exhibit areas at the Museum include The Studio, Theater, Waterplay, Attic, Nursery, Backyard and MAKESHOP®. The Museum’s award-winning, three-story, center building is screened by a shimmering wind Sculpture and connects two historic structures (Allegheny Post Office Building & the Buhl Building). In 2006 the Museum became a certified green building and was honored by the American Institute for Architects and the National Historic Preservation Trust. In 2015 Parents Magazine named the Museum one of the nation’s fifteen top children’s museums and in 2017 the Children’s Museum was Voted One of the Nation’s Ten Best Museums for Families in USA Today 10 Best Reader’s Choice Contest for Best Museum for Families in America. On April 27, 2019 Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Museum opened MuseumLab™, a new museum for older kids, located in the former Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny adjacent to the Children’s Museum. With the opening of MuseumLab on April 27, 2019, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh has transformed a North Side landmark into an integral component of what is now the nation’s the largest cultural campus for children.
About Eric Carle and The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Eric Carle is the renowned author and illustrator of more than 70 books, including the 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The mission of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a non-profit organization in Amherst, MA, is to inspire a love of art and reading through picture books. The only full-scale museum of its kind in the United States, The Carle collects, preserves, presents, and celebrates picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world. In addition to underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form, The Carle offers educational programs that provide a foundation for arts integration and literacy. Eric and Barbara Carle founded the Museum in November 2002. Since opening, the 40,000-square foot facility has served more than half a million visitors, including 30,000 schoolchildren. The Carle houses more than 13,000 objects, including 6,600 permanent collection illustrations. For further information, visit the Museum’s website at www.carlemuseum.org.
