You may make a donation by clicking "Donate Now. Your generous participation will enable us to deliver an exciting, educational curriculum of programs that engage kids in fun, interactive, hands-on activities that connect real-life and play experiences. Here Comes the Sun is a vital campaign to support a galaxy of exciting programs, classes, camps and workshops in the Children’s Museum’s beautiful new home in Port Wonder on the Lake Charles lakefront.
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Please help us prepare for our new home at Port Wonder. This location will spur economic development and will drive tourism into the region. On June 30, 2021, we officially broke ground on our new location on the north side of the lake along I-10 in downtown Lake Charles. Check out the casino map of Lake Charles in Louisiana and see where you can gamble on your favorite table games and slot machines. Welcome to our Howard Johnson Inn - Historic Lake Charles hotel, which is nestled. Port Wonder will house the Children’s Museum of Southwest Louisiana and a Science Center by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Near Isle of Capri Casino and minutes from beautiful southwest Louisiana. Between 20 the population of Lake Charles, LA grew from 76,267 to 77,283, a 1. In 2018, we began working on our new home! We joined forces with the City of Lake Charles and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries to bring the community a state-of-the-art complex that will offer family-friendly activities year-round. In 2019, Lake Charles, LA had a population of 77.3k people with a median age of 36.2 and a median household income of 42,942. Our facility is currently closed but the future looks BRIGHT!
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Regrettably, many of our beloved exhibit areas did not make it and we were unable to return to our Broad Street location. In 2020, the building that housed the Children’s Museum of Southwest Louisiana sustained catastrophic damage from Hurricane Laura.