Venue: Kaleideum
Town: North Carolina, US

Kaleideum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was created from the July 2016 merger of Children's Museum of Winston-Salem and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County. The two old properties were closed in December 2023, and the new unified museum opened in downtown Winston-Salem on February 7, 2024. Kaleideum North began in 1964 as the Nature Science Center, started by the local Junior League; the museum was originally housed in a barn at Reynolda Village. In 1972, the Nature Science Center moved to its second location at 400 West Hanes Mill Road, into a campus that originally housed the Forsyth County Home and Hospital, the precursor to Forsyth Medical Center. In 1992, the Nature Science Center closed and underwent a major renovation, re-opening under the name SciWorks. In 2001, the museum upgraded the facilities by doubling the space of one of the main galleries and adding an indoor eating area to the building. SciWorks consisted of a building with 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of exhibit space, a 15-acre (61,000 m2) environmental park, and a planetarium. The exhibit galleries covered a wide range of topics such as North Carolina geography and geology, the human body, physics (featuring a Foucault pendulum), sound, and technology. In addition, there was a traveling exhibit gallery that featured both nationally touring exhibits and exhibits created in-house. The BioWorks exhibit, focusing on animals both local and exotic, was renovated in 2010. The environmental park featured white-tailed deer and river otters, as well as a barnyard that had donkeys, sheep, and cows. It also had outdoor exhibits on sound and fluids, as well as a garden of native vegetation. The museum ran several interactive education programs for elementary and middle school students. and offered special summer camps, as well as camp-ins for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. The Children's Museum of Winston-Salem, later renamed to Kaleideum Downtown after the merger deal, was