Freedom Boat Club Lake George has partnered with the Children\u2019s Museum at Saratoga on a new boating and fishing exhibit.
\nThe Saratoga Lake – Let\u2019s Go Boating exhibit will be an interactive, kid-friendly, and colorfully immersive exhibit. It is designed to help young children utilize play as a means to enhance their social and emotional development, as well as learn how to communicate, observe and problem solve with one another as they navigate their way through the exhibit, officials said.
\nThe Saratoga Lake exhibit joins long-time museum favorites like the theater, trolley, firetruck, diner, grocery store and bandstand, as well as another brand new exhibit, the barn.
\nThe exhibit space will be on the first floor, where the current Congress Park\/Saratoga Lake is located.
\nThe exhibit will have a grand opening on at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 13.
\nThe improved exhibit offers children an opportunity to take a boat ride fueled by their imagination as they discover different animals and plants in their natural habitat. To further enhance the exhibit\u2019s educational value, additional interactives are being constructed for visitors to engage with as they discover life on the lake.
\nIncluded in the Saratoga Lake exhibit is a revamped rowboat utilizing a reclaimed steering wheel and throttle control, an interactive knot-tying panel featuring four common boating knots, an interactive fishing game and a Life Jacket station.
\nFreedom Boat Club owners Matt and Rebecca O\u2019Hara have been members of the museum for several years and brought the idea to museum staff last year.
\n\u201cWe are frequent visitors of the museum with our 4- and 2-year-old daughters and after we\u2019ve seen their joy interacting with the steering wheels and controls on our club boats, we thought it would be a great addition to enhance the interactivity of the boat exhibit at the Museum,\u201d said Rebecca. \u201cWe were thrilled when the museum team was open to the idea of working with us to add not only controls to the boat but significantly upgrading the space by adding the fishing and knot tying panels.\u201d
\nThe couple also feels that the exhibit, and future programming designed around it, will allow visitors to have more hands-on experience with the joys of boating, the value of boat safety, and the importance of learning about and respecting the ecosystems around the region\u2019s lakes.
\n\u201cWe strongly believe that time spent boating as a family is among the best quality time we have with our kids and want to continue making boating more accessible in the area\u201d said Matt.
\nAccording to museum board president David Martin, \u201cThis is a special year for the museum. We are celebrating 30 years of service to the community. This exhibition marks the beginning of a year of new opportunities that the museum has planned for our visitors, members and community stakeholders. We are profoundly grateful for the donors and volunteers who have made and continue to make this museum a valuable resource for children in the greater Capital Region.\u201d
\nFreedom Boat Club is the nation\u2019s oldest and largest boat club, with over 2,000 boats at 215 club locations operating in 31 states, Canada, and Europe. For more information about Freedom Boat Club in Lake George, call (845) 642-0201 or visit www.freedomboatclub.com
\nFounded in 1990 by community parents and educators, the Children\u2019s Museum at Saratoga is dedicated to creating an interactive community that inspires curiosity, sparks imagination and nurtures discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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