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Have your name on a piece of Gilbert House

Gilbert House Children’s Museum on Friday, March 12, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)

Your name could be on a brick at Gilbert House Children’s Museum when the organization’s remodel of its outdoor play area begins in 2022.

The nonprofit museum is selling engraved bricks to raise funds for its “Priority Play” campaign, which will replace much of the 25-year-old wooden play structure on the museum’s east side.

The revamp is intended to make the area more open and give kids a variety of outdoor exhibits focused on nature-related play, including a small garden, fort-building station and sand table.

Bricks are available for $150 for one, $125 each for two, or $100 each for three or more. Each brick can be engraved with up to three lines of text with up to 12 characters per line, including spaces and punctuation. Orders can be placed on the museum’s website.

The museum hopes to sell 100 brick inscriptions through the campaign and will have bricks available until March 2022, executive director Alicia Bay said. Inscriptions will be completed late next summer.

Construction on the outdoor play area is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2022, with the new exhibit opening in early 2023.

-Rachel Alexander