Orpheum Museum board adopting new safety measures

CHAMPAIGN – Board members of the Orpheum Children's Science Museum in Champaign will be adopting new safety measures for the museum after a child was injured there last weekend.

The child was injured Sunday afternoon when a steel bell on a new tugboat exhibit at the museum came loose and fell on the child, hitting him on the head, said George Stanhope, president of the museum's board of directors.

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