ICAN, a nonprofit organization that manages the Utica Children’s Museum, is planning to relocate the museum from an antiquated space to a more centralized, modernized childhood learning center on the Parkway. 

The project is a renovation of an existing 40,000 sf, three-story building previously occupied by the Utica City School District. The new program will include ICAN service functions, executive offices and the Children’s Museum. A 4,000 sf addition, in the shape of a translucent drum, will house a new reception area, lobby, and a two-story exhibit space featuring a universally accessible spiral walkway connecting the lobby to upper level museum display areas. The renovated museum is expected to break ground Fall 2020 with plans to open by Spring 2022.