Museum of Life and Science plans in-person camps in July, August

The Museum of Life and Science announced this week that it will offer some in-person camps in July and August this year.

In May, the Durham museum canceled its June camps and began offering virtual options, which run through early July.

"We plan to still offer July and August camps, but we've had to cancel some of them and change how the remaining ones will work," Matt Pusateri, the museum's senior director of marketing, tells me. "Parents can shift registrations from a canceled camp to a different session, pick an online camp instead, or request a refund."

Summer plans at the museum include new safety measures to help keep campers and staff healthy. Those new procedures include the elimination of morning care and after care, adjustments to drop off and pick up and limiting movement within the museum's indoor and outdoor spaces.

The museum also has had to cancel come camps because they are "no longer viable given our need to maintain social distancing," according to the museum. Those include camps with food themes and Lego camps where kids work in small teams and share Lego kits and computers. All Minecraft camps also were canceled, but the museum is offering some virtual options for those.

More information about the in-person and virtual summer camps is on the museum's website.

While they prepare for camps, museum staff also are "cautiously working towards a reopening" when state laws make it possible, Pusateri tells me. The museum, like others across the Triangle, closed in mid-March.

Check our earlier post with more information about more than 50 other summer camps that are open this summer in the region.