IN THE NEWS
July 24, 2010: The Morning Sun, Young artists learn about birds at Discovery Days during Street Festival.
June 21, 2010: The Morning Sun, Plans for Mount Pleasant children's museum under way.
May 13, 2010: The Morning Sun spoke with Heather Frisch and Jennifer Fields about hiring Tom Wolcott as Project Manager.
May 2, 2010: WCFX 95.3 Interviewed Jennifer Fields and Shelly Smith for their Sunday Morning Staff Meeting that is aired weekly. An interesting in depth interview about past, present and the future of MPDM.
April 26, 2010: Central Michigan Life (CM LIFE) Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum receives $1 million donation.
April 22, 2010: The Morning Sun announced the Morey Foundation donation.
April 22, 2010: The Morey Foundation Press Release announcing million dollar donation with $500,000 additional matching grant.
Apri 12, 2010: Central Michigan Life (CM LIFE) reported on the success of The Magnetic Field grand opening.
April 8, 2010: The Morning Sun published an article about the opening of The Magnetic Field exhibit opening in the temporary exhibit space of the Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Rowe Hall on CMU campus.
November 5, 2009: The Morning Sun published an article about the current progress and direction.
August 23, 2009: The Morning Sun published an article about the success of our first annual family Discovery Day event held at Island Park August 22nd.
August 1, 2009: The Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Observer (scroll down to pg 20) printed a story featuring the museum and the idea of bridging cultures through children.
April 30, 2009: 9&10 News coverage from our first major fundraising event, see both text and video clip.
April 4, 2009: MPDM Chair, Jennifer Fields spent the morining at WCMU Public Radio during pledge time and was able to share information about the museum on air.
March 23, 2009: The Morning Sun published another article about the Museum in the Opinion section.
March 19, 2009: WCMU Public Radio aired an interview between Amy Robinson of All Things Considered and board members Jennifer Fields, MPDM Chair and Shelly Smith, MPDM Treasurer.
March 16, 2009: Jennifer Fields, MPDM Chair was interviewed on 104.3 WCXY morning show.
March 5, 2009: The Morning Sun featured the museum effort in the newspaper.