The Museums at Lisle Station Park and local museums offer cure for summer boredom with Passport to Adventure

Lisle, IL - Did you know that there are affordable family-focused excursions all around you?  The Museums at Lisle Station Park, 921 School Street, along with local museums in DuPage and Kane Counties invite children on a quest this summer to find fun facts, mysterious stories, amazing outdoors, and unbelievable history. The annual “Passport to Adventure Program” is your ticket to the many amazing and exciting activities that museums provide to enrich our lives and communities.  In addition, the Museums at Lisle Station Park and many other sites are free to visit!

Children can explore all the wonders that local museums have to offer including art, history and living history, science, games, and nature.  Many sites have designed special activities for children who participate in the program. At each location, your child can receive a stamp in their passport booklet.  Fill your passport with as many stamps as you can!  At the end of the summer, children with seven or more stamps can return their passports to the site stamped on the front page to receive a prize.

The Passport to Adventure Program is designed for children between the ages of 4 and 12 and sponsored by the Kane-DuPage Regional Museum Association.  The program begins each year on Memorial Day and runs through Labor Day. Passports can be -picked up at one of the 50 local museums or libraries that are participating in the program. Keep your passport as a reference guide for fun places to visit throughout the year. For more information, please contact your area museum or visit the Kane-DuPage Regional Museum website at www.kdrma.org.  

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Contact: Jeanne Schultz Angel, President, KDRMA, 630-629-8233  

The Kane-DuPage Regional Museum Association is an alliance of more than sixty museums. The organization serves its members through collaborative programming, promotion, professional development, and networking.