I'm here with Michelle Davis, executive director of the Children's Museum of Alamance County.

Michelle, this is just delightful.

I love this space.

Tell me more about what's here and what kids can enjoy.

- Well, we have a lot of different exhibit spaces.

We have a building zone where they can, we have Imagination Playground, which are these giant loop building blocks where they can create whatever they want and they can take up the entire space.

We have a dental office so the children can pretend to be a dentist and have the dental chair x-rays to look at.

This is our lucky climber, and basically, the children can climb up.

They cannot escape, because of all of the wires, but when they get to the top they can look out over the town of Graham.

- [Deborah] Oh, that's so cool.

- [Michelle] And they have to do a lot of maneuvering.

There's some tight spaces, but adults can go up it as well.

- [Deborah] Well, thanks for the invitation, but maybe another time.

- [Michelle] Yes, we've had the governor's wife up there so.

- [Deborah] Oh, get outta here.

It's just really interesting.

That such a small community has such a big, beautiful space.

- Yes, we're very fortunate.

There was a couple, Phoebe and Pat Harmon, who created a challenge grant.

They have a local foundation within Alamance County and they put up a million dollar challenge grant and to the community, if they would meet that then they would build the Children's Museum.

So, challenge was met and cost a little bit more, but the Harmons felt very strongly in the need for this kind of event center here within Alamance County.

So, when we quickly got a lot of support, a lot of the local businesses anchored here in Alamance County supported it, sponsored the exhibit spaces, and made it happen.

- Michelle, how does the museum reflect the culture and heritage of Alamance County?

- So, we have the then and now area that features a cafe, which has been sponsored by Mildred Dewey.

They had a life long time seafood and family restaurant located and they had several located within Alamance County.

So, they felt very strongly.

She has great-grandchildren that visit the Children's Museum.

So, she wanted to be a part of this.

So, we also have a train depot, because originally, Burlington in Alamance County was known as the company shops and the hub was the train station and bringing everything here.

So, that was sponsored by the North Carolina Railroad.

Then we have our textile mill exhibit, because the bulk of Alamance County has a textile history.

So, Glen Raven Mills sponsored that exhibit.

- [Deborah] It's also sort of a dairy farm, right?

- It is.

We do have a farmhouse and that depicts life in the thirties, forties era.

It has collages all throughout the house of images of what Alamance County looked like back in the day, actual pictures of people and their homes, and how things looked, and what the towns looked like.

So, the kids can get a little bit of history lesson, while they're in there.

And then the farm yard has a mural all across it, which features dairy farming.

There is a local dairy farm.

We have several of 'em throughout the area.

So, it's to feature the culture and the farming, how important farming is within our community.

- Michelle, thank you so much for telling me all about it.

I'm sure that a lot of families are gonna have so much fun here.

- Thank you, we appreciate you coming to Alamance County today.

- The Children's Museum of Alamance County is at 217 South Main Street in Graham and they're open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

To learn more give them a call at [336] 228-7997 or check them out online at childrensmuseumofalamance.org.