Orpheum's board seeks proposals for building new museum
By Mike Monson
Thursday January 8, 2009
John Dixon
Sonya Darter, interim director of the Orpheum Children's Science Museum, stands Tuesday in the theater area of the museum building, which is currently used only for storage.
CHAMPAIGN – The people who run the Orpheum Children's Science Museum think it might be better off in different quarters than the historic 95-year-old Orpheum Theatre building in downtown Champaign.
So they've put out a request for proposals asking local developers if they would be interested in building a new, larger children's museum, and for their ideas about a potential reuse of the theater building.
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