The Mini-Time Machine is proud to participate in Blue Star Museums by offering free admission to active-duty military and their immediate family from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2011. For museum hours of operation visit www.theminitimemachine.org

You’re the main character in The Mini-Time Machine’s Adventure Tour Gallery Guide.

As the stories of the magical creatures that inhabit the miniatures unfold, you alone must decide what path to take. Leave with a chronicle of your adventure. Come back and play again and create a different adventure each time.

To play: Pick up an Adventure Tour Gallery Guide Map in the lobby of The Mini-Time Machine. Read the directions and the start of the story on the map. Then you must decide where to go next. At the next miniature, take a page and read that story and decide where to go from there. Save your pages as you go- at the end you will receive a cover and brads to bind them into a keepsake book of your adventure. If you play correctly, you will have four pages for your book. Visit us again and make different choices, taking a new route to create a whole new story!

Included with museum admission while supplies last. Suitable for school-age children and adults. Small children will need adult assistance.

Join us on the first Thursday of each month this summer for our Summer Story Series.
June 2^nd, July 7^th and August 4^th from 6:30pm-8:00pm
Listen to a story told  by a local children’s book author in our Enchanted Realm, followed by a craft project for kids in the classroom. Admission is only $5. Free for members.

Thursday, June 2, 2011: Children’s book author, Susan Lowell, will read Elephant Quilt and sign books.
Story Time craft: Create a mini paper quilt.

Thursday, July 7, 2011: Children’s Book Author Kate Bernheimer reads her book The Girl In the Castle Inside the Museum and signs books.
Story Time Craft: Create mini peek-a-boo castle photo frame.

Thursday, August 4, 2011: Barbea Williams Performing Company will be performing Rain’s First Rhyme and The Boy and the Tree of the Animals followed by a mini craft project for kids: rainbow pop-up cards.

Join us for our last Sandwiched In Lunch and Lecture this Thursday, May 19, 2011. Dennita Sewell, Curator of Fashion Design at the Phoenix Art Museum (PAM) discusses the PAM exhibit Théâtre de la Mode, a post-WWII miniature fashion exhibit on view through July 31, 2011 at PAM. 12:30pm at The Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. Included with admission. Bagged lunches from Beyond Bread available for purchase for only $8 while supplies last. We suggest calling ahead to reserve one!

Join us for our May 5th Sandwiched In Lunch and Lecture series and listen to local artist, Tom Bulow, briefly discuss the history of Cinco de Mayo and demonstrate the techniques he uses to carve the wooden figures he creates as well as present his 1:30 scale replicas of the San Xavier and Tumacacori Missions.

Thursday, May 5, 2011 12:30pm at The Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. Included with museum admission (which is only $5 on Thursdays through 5/26). Bagged lunches from Beyond Bread available for purchase while supplies last for only $8. Call 881-0606 ahead of time to reserve one if you would like!