We are re-imagining and redesigning our beloved Toddler Beach exhibit and play space. Our vision creates an immersive, crawl‑to‑climb early childhood environment that welcomes children from birth through pre‑K alongside their caregivers to explore cause‑and‑effect, texture, sound, and motion in safe, developmentally rich ways.
These renderings show the future of Toddler Beach as an interactive, tactile, sensory-rich, seaside-themed gallery that overlooks and reflects the Boardwalk and our view of the Long Island Sound. Designed by Learn’ique, based in Rye, NY.
Fundraising is live. In order to make this vision a reality, we need your help to create this immersive play space for generations to come.
$250 School of Supporters Donor - Donors at this level or higher will receive an engraved fish with your name on it to add to our School of Supporters which will be installed upon exhibit completion.
$2,500 Impact Donor - Donors at this level and up will help us make meaningful strides to our goal and be included on our donor wall installed in the gallery as well as receive a School of Supporters engraved fish.
Research Driven, Designed by Early Childhood Education and & Museum Experts
Constructed with various textures, sounds, and sights to help develop cognitive and motor skills
Structured to encourage reaching, grasping, crawling, and walking to build physical abilities and coordination
Designed for talking, singing, and reading to support learning language and encourage social interaction
Our design plans, developed by Westchester’s own Learn’ique, are set within our Long Island Sound facing gallery, featuring a cohesive theme that ties together flexible, universal‑design stations that withstand continuous, high‑touch use and support mixed abilities and neurodiversity. Honoring our location on the Sound, the vision of the design aims to bring the outside in so children may experience a sense of place that is uniquely ours.
Questions? Please contact Laura Rosenthal, Development Director, at 914-420-7135 or lrosenthal@discoverwcm.org to discuss how you can make an impact. We have a selection of special naming opportunities and a dedicated donor recognition program.
The visionary plans for the new Toddler Beach are designed by Abbey Lombardo-Kumar. Abbey is an acclaimed Westchester-based designer of children’s spaces, and founder of Learn’ique in Rye.
