Article: Volunteers build a discovery playground in San Luis Obispo. (San Luis Obispo Children's Museum)

Volunteers build a discovery playground in San Luis Obispo In Greek mythology, the Muses are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Considered guiding spirits, each presides over a different art or science> from them, we get our word museum. At the new San Luis Obispo Children's Museum, muses came in the form of Cal Poly students, chamber of commerce members, volunteers, and--most important--children.

This grass-roots group opened the doors last September on a small but vital discovery playground. Here, youngsters can fly a space shuttle, draw petroglyphs in a mock Chumash cave, or take part in dozens of other ...

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