Ambitious group aims to bring children’s museum to Sarasota

With more and more families moving to the area, a group of women and moms aims to fill a gaping hole in the Sarasota-Bradenton market: a lack of a children’s museum.

Lindsay Rothe and Christina “CC” Fredericks are part of a group of women trying to bring a children's museum to Sarasota.
Lindsay Rothe and Christina “CC” Fredericks are part of a group of women trying to bring a children's museum to Sarasota.
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It’s been more than a decade since a museum specifically designed for children has called Sarasota home. The closing of kid-focused science museum GWIZ (Gulfcoast Wonder and Imagination Zone) in 2012 left a hole on the local landscape. 

Now a group of ambitious women are working to fill that hole by establishing the Sarasota Children’s Museum.

 

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