Let’s Move! Museums & Gardens Monthly Report

December 2011

Each month, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) provides a status report of the

Let’s Move! Museums & Gardens initiative. This update is sent to the White House, partners and

participants. The report highlights success stories and recent announcements and provides an up-

to-date listing of participating institutions and a sampling of social media mentions.

If you wish to submit success stories, please email a 150 word article with photos to

letsmovemuseumsandgardens@imls.gov. In addition to your submitted photos, please be sure to

include a signed copy of the IMLS Photo Release form, which can be accessed at

http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/IMLS_Photo_Release.pdf.

For additional programming and communication resources, the Let’s Move! Museums &

Gardens Toolkit is available at

http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/LMMG_Toolkit.pdf.

Success Stories

Mississippi Children’s Museum

1st Birthday

Jackson, MS

The Mississippi Children’s Museum celebrated

its 1st birthday on December 3, 2011. It was

quite the festive occasion, including a variety of

health-based activities. Mississippian Whitney

Miller, winner of Fox’s MasterChef Season 1,

showed birthday guests how to make a

nutritious apple snack—her version of a healthy

candied apple—with peanut butter, raisins,

pretzels and local honey. Children were able to

make their own apples to take home. Patrick

House, Mississippi native and winner of NBC’s

The Biggest Loser Season 10, discussed the

importance of building a healthy plate and led

children in a mini-workout boot camp. Birthday

party guests also had the opportunity to

mailto:letsmovemuseumsandgardens@imls.govhttp://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/IMLS_Photo_Release.pdfhttp://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/LMMG_Toolkit.pdf

participate in dance workshops by Ballet Mississippi; have their photo taken with Santa and his

reindeer; take part in science experiments; and challenge themselves to the Birthday Olympics

held in the Healthy Fun Gallery. The Birthday Olympics featured events such as “Dance Like

It’s Your Birthday” and the “10-Yard Digestive Dash.” MCM’s 1st birthday party was an

educational, innovative and creative celebration!

Lynn Meadows Discovery Center Fresh is Best

Gulfport, MS

Sixty-seven 6th

grade students from Bayou View

Middle School in Gulfport, MS gathered at The

Lynn Meadows Discovery Center to learn all

about healthy cooking and eating. Chef Danie

from Capone’s Restaurant was on hand to lead

this very yummy workshop where the students

learned to make pizza from scratch. Chef Danie

stressed the importance of using only fresh

ingredients which contain no preservatives.

“Remember it’s our body and our responsibility

to take care of what we put into our bodies”…yes,

fresh is best! The delicious sauce, fresh toppings and mozzarella cheese completed the

masterpieces and then it was off to the oven to bake. While the pizzas were baking the students

sampled a fresh fruit salad full of peaches, pears, and bananas in a delicious fruit juice reduction

sauce…..what a treat!

Let’s Move! Institutions

As of 3:00 pm on Monday, December 12, 497 institutions had signed up in 49 states and DC.

Click here to view the list of the institutions on the IMLS Web site.

Participating institutions by type:

1 Aquarium

3 Anthropology Museum

91 Arboretum/Botanic Garden/Public Garden

51 Art Museum/Center/Sculpture Garden

127 Children’s or Youth Museum

12 Ethnically/Culturally/Tribally Specific Museum

18 General or Multi-disciplinary Museum (several subjects)

2 Hall of Fame (e.g., music, sports, entertainment, media)

16 Historic House

21 Historic Site/Landscape

53 History Museum

7 Historical Society

1 Military Museum/Battlefield

9 Nature Center

15 Natural History Museum

25 Science/Technology Center/Museum

33 Specialized Museum (single topic/individual)

1 Transportation Museum (air & space, auto, maritime, train)

2 Visitor Center/Interpretive Center

9 Zoo/Animal Park

497 Total

Participating institutions commitments by priority

Priority Will Do Currently Do Not Applicable Total

Priority #1: Eat healthy, get active

exhibits 176 261 33 470

Priority #2: Learning about healthy

food choices and physical activity

through afterschool, summer and

other programs 163 262 35 460

Priority #3: Healthy food service 61 146 224 431

Priority #4: Learning about healthy

food choices and physical activity

using food service operation 88 49 254 391

http://www.imls.gov/about/lets_move_institutions.aspx

Media and Social Media Mentions

Newspapers

Attached is a PDF with a newspaper article printed and posted online this month.

Blogs

Let’s Move! Museums & Gardens was the topic of the following blog posts this month:

Newark Museum Exhibit Offers Interactive Path ...

Take a Hike

Wellness and Museums ... ·

Facebook

A sampling of Facebook mentions:

American Public Gardens Association http://www.facebook.com/publicgardens/posts/10150393795225283

Twitter

A sampling of Twitter mentions:

HermitageNorVA: The Hermitage is now part of Let’s Move! Museums and Gardens!

http://publicgardens.org/content/lets-move-museums-and-gardens

http://realism101.com/2011/11/28/newark-museum-exhibit-offers-interactive-path-for-youngsters/http://giuliageranium.blogspot.com/2011/11/take-hike.htmlhttp://rcnnolly.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/wellness-and-museums/http://www.facebook.com/publicgardens/posts/10150393795225283http://twitter.com/HermitageNorVAhttp://publicgardens.org/content/lets-move-museums-and-gardenshttp://twitter.com/HermitageNorVA

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Start good habits early to avoid obesity: LetterPublished: Monday, November 28, 2011, 1:16 AM

Re: "Child's play is important," Our Opinions, Nov. 21.

Thank you for highlighting the importance of proactive measures to address obesity. Louisianaranks 47th in childhood obesity. The Louisiana Children's Museum was one of the first Let's MoveMuseums and Gardens and was honored to have had Michelle Obama visit a program we deliverto young children and their parents in childcare centers in New Orleans -- Eat, Sleep, Play.

The preventative nature of this program -- which highlights movement, healthy eating, as well asart, music and storytelling -- is an example of addressing the continuum of community needs.

Our mayor designated New Orleans as a Let's Move City, and Commissioner of Health Dr. KarenDeSalvo is leading a comprehensive plan to address the health and well-being of all NewOrleanians. This plan will offer roles for each of us -- as individuals, families or institutions.

As your editorial stated, eating healthy foods and getting regular physical activity are keycomponents of the solution. Additionally, decreasing "screen time" for children (TV, video games,computer time and smart phones), spending time outdoors and getting a healthy amount of sleepare other ingredients that form the solution. Good habits taught, modeled and enforced early inlife will be transformational for our children.

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New Orleans

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I've posted this statement before.... Unless every fast food place is closed down and everycoke, Pepsi, 7up, dr pepper, and their friends are taken off the shelves, there is no startingpoint.

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