The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia is offering sock skating this winter for young people between the ages of 2 and 20 years old.
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Sock skating enables children to wear socks on the ice instead of ice skates, and the museum has a room dedicated to this activity. The room has the feel of winter with snow falling, a wooden bench with a Christmas tree in the window, and a snowbank. There are benches on which parents can sit and watch their children as they skate on the ice. Children need to bring their own socks, and the cost for each child to skate is $3.
The Schiele Museum also has a planetarium and extensive exhibits on plants, animals, minerals and gems, and dinosaurs, as well as an outdoor farm and Catawba Village. The price of tickets to the museum, which can be purchased when buying tickets for sock skating, are $7 for adults and $6 for children between the ages of 6 and 18. Children who are three years old and younger can enter the museum for free. Tickets for the planetarium are $5 per person and tickets for the farm are $3 per person.
Sock skating will be offered through February.
Location
495 E. Long Avenue
Gastonia, NC 28054
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Hours
Mon: 8:30 - 5:00
Tue: 8:30 - 5:00
Wed: 8:30 - 5:00
Thu: 8:30 - 5:00
Fri: 8:30 - 4:00
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed