The Twenties

In 1924, Mrs. Mary Stewart Carey visited the Brooklyn Children's Museum and was inspired to create a museum for children in Indianapolis. In 1925 she began paying rent to the Propylaeum to use the space in its carriage house. One of the early items that were donated included a mounted porcupine fish. The Museum moved to Garfield Park in 1926. The first month's attendance was about 1550. A year later, the museum moved to the Carey Home, where it would stay for the next 19 years. The 1891 auto built by Charles Black was loaned to the Children's Museum in 1927. Other exhibits included a marine room, a pioneer room, an archaeology room, and a natural history room with a library and reading room.

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