Upper Peninsula’s Children’s Museum

A new exhibit has buzzed into the Upper Peninsula’s Children’s museum. After taking over as exhibit designer around a year ago, Carie Koscielny, knew the benefits a live bee exhibit could offer to the museum. Koscielny, who has been a beekeeper for the past four years, says she wanted to create an exhibit where kids could learn about bees in a fun and playful way.

“There is a screen display, everything on the wall is meant to entertain and invoke that curiosity for the children,” Koscielny said. “We have a life cycle that is handmade by another local artist who I reached out to through northern, and she’s absolutely excellent and made these little life cycles for me and I built the enclosure for it.”

The exhibit offers a wide variety of ‘bee’-tastic interactive elements for people of all ages to enjoy and to learn a thing for two.

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