The Louisiana Children’s Museum is on track to open a first-of-its-kind early childhood campus in New Orleans City Park by the end of 2017, park and museum officials have announced.

Museum officials plan to sell their old building at 420 Julia St. and open the new campus, dubbed the Early Learning Village, in the Roosevelt Mall section of the park.

The project, which has been in the works since it was incorporated into the park’s master plan in 2005, is the only new cultural attraction to be invited into the park so far, according to Julia Bland, the museum’s chief executive officer. “It’s a huge deal,” Bland said. “We’re relocating, but we’re building on many, many programs we’ve done for years, and we will be able to offer in much greater depth many more resources for the community.”