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Grout Museum Presents: Cars & Coasters

A Summer Library Program for All Ages
2025-06-18 13:00:00 2025-06-18 13:45:00 America/Chicago Grout Museum Presents: Cars & Coasters Join our friends from the Grout Museum as we play and learn about gravity, momentum, and motion! Marion Public Library - Community Room

Wednesday, June 18
1:00pm - 1:45pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-18 13:00:00 2025-06-18 13:45:00 America/Chicago Grout Museum Presents: Cars & Coasters Join our friends from the Grout Museum as we play and learn about gravity, momentum, and motion! Marion Public Library - Community Room

Marion Public Library

Community Room

Join our friends from the Grout Museum as we play and learn about gravity, momentum, and motion!

Experiment with the scientific principles of gravity, momentum and motion through the excitement of toy cars and 24 feet of Blu Track racing strips. Imaginarium staff will set up a variety of simple and complex roller
coaster configurations complete with hills and loops for children of all ages to send cars flying through the air or racing to the finish line.

To allow everyone access to the tracks and cars, we ask that you sign up for one of the two 1-hour time slots! Children under the age of 9 years old must be accompanied by an adult at all times. 

This all-ages summer library program is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Farmers State Bank.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Children | All |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Event | Program |

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