12/27/2013 Top Stories of 2013

By The Chronicle

Children’s Museum a Resounding Success

There were many questions at the outset of what was expected to be a six-month pilot project for the Discover! Children’s Museum in Chehalis.

Most of them have been positively answered after the project was extended to 11 months due to its success and popularity.

The effort, led by the Chehalis Renaissance, has resulted in plans for a new, larger facility in the Twin City Town Center.

Volunteers and organizers will begin a fundraising effort in 2014 to make the museum a permanent fixture. It is expected to cost around $3 million.

That investment will be well worth it if attendance continues at the pace of the pilot project.

In all, more than 14,600 adults and children paid to walk through the doors of the museum. That’s triple the number of people organizers expected.