Though the plan is not yet definite, the Louisiana Children's Museum has raised about $7 million for a potential move to City Park, an ambitious project that would drastically expand the museum and its programs.

Tentatively slated to break ground in 2012 and open in 2014, the new location in the park, called the Early Learning Village, would be twice the size of the museum's Warehouse District building. It would take advantage of the park setting and bring community resources together to assist parents and entertain children.

In the meantime, City Park has reserved a site of about 10 acres not far from the New Orleans Museum of Art and near Roosevelt Mall.