PROVIDENCE – The Providence Children’s Museum has started exterior renovations at its 75-year-old Jewelry District building, the nonprofit announced this month.
The six-week renovations, which began Sept. 2, will include the replacement of 70 multi-paned windows and the repointing of the building’s brick façade. The museum will reopen Oct. 28.
The exterior improvements are in part intended to “counter years of weather damage and deterioration and will help reduce energy consumption and expenses,” the museum said.
Executive Director Janice O’Donnell added that the new energy-efficient windows will be “historically appropriate.”
Before the Children’s Museum took up residence in its current home in 1997, the building had been the home to a printing business and then a jewelry manufacturer.
The museum also started a Weblog that will allow those interested to pick up renovation tidbits. The Sept. 8 entry, for example, showed off the Post-it notes that detail new wall colors throughout the museum.
The Providence Children’s Museum, which opened its doors in Pawtucket in 1977, relocated to Providence in 1997. For more information, including a link to the construction blog, visit www.childrenmuseum.org.
