Explore: The Children's Museum of the Pee Dee

08/26/2021

Looking for something for your kids to do during Fall break? Camp Adventure is sure to offer your kids a fun, safe, educational week! Registration opens September 1st at www.cityofflorencerecreation.com.

08/17/2021

It's National Non-Profit Day! Help us celebrate by donating to Explore via our newly designed website! Thanks to for their donation and helping make our new website a reality!

Your contribution to The Children’s Museum of the P*e Dee will allow us to continue our efforts to establish a fun, safe, educational place for children to learn and grow.

08/16/2021

Bring out your future Explorers to the planned site for Explore, 1511 Freedom Blvd., on Saturday, September 25th from 9 a.m.-12 p.m.! Help us keep Florence beautiful! See you there!

If you want to get involved and help clean up Florence, now is your chance!
Join Keep Florence Beautiful in the 2021 River Sweep. This year the clean up will be at Freedom Florence and will clean up a stretch of Jeffries Creek. To sign up, participants must sign a waiver and email it to [email protected]
A copy of the waiver, and more information, can be found at https://keepflorencebeautiful.org/.../beach-sweepriver.../

06/21/2021

06/17/2021

06/17/2021

The Explore Garden is ready for harvest! Because of the gracious donation from Eat Smart Move More and the City of Florence, we were not only able to provide the opportunity for the children in our community to learn more about gardening and healthy eating, but we were also able to give back the vegetables from our garden to those in need. Some of our local "Explorers" made a trip to the House of Hope yesterday to make a donation from our garden. Please check out this wonderful organization that serves the homeless in our community (https://hofh.org/).

06/07/2021

Our garden is growing! We've got squash, peppers, and radishes, so far. We hope to donate the food from our garden to those in need!

06/01/2021

Come see us at the City Center Farmers Market from 4-7 today!

05/19/2021

We had a great day at our last session of the Explore Planting Our Garden series. Thank you to Melanie Glover from Moore Botanical Gardens for a lesson about the importance of sustainable eating.
We hope to continue our programming throughout the year!

For more information about Explore, please check out out our website at http://www.explorechildrensmuseum.org

We will continue to keep you updated on our progress!

05/18/2021

Join us for our last session of the "Planting Our Garden" series TODAY from 3pm to 5pm. We will have a lesson from Melanie Glover of Moore Farms Botanical Gardens. The children will learn about the benefits of healthy eating and have a chance to taste some of the plants growing in the garden.

Location: 1511 Freedom Blvd (new site for Explore)

Kona Ice will be there to keep the kids cool! Hope to see you there!

05/15/2021

Join us for our last session of the "Planting Our Garden" series on Tuesday, May 18th from 3pm to 5pm. We will have a lesson from Melanie Glover of Moore Farms Botanical Gardens. The children will learn about the benefits of healthy eating and have a chance to taste some of the plants growing in the garden.
Location: 1511 Freedom Blvd (new site for Explore)

3:15pm: Lesson from Moore Farms Botanical Gardens
3:45pm: Movement Break
4:00pm: Taste from the garden

*Kona Ice will be there to keep the kids cool! Hope to see you there!

05/12/2021

“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair should be messy and your eyes sparkling.” - Shanti