Museums & places
Curated museums & places resources within engineering for curious kids and their grown-ups.
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The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
KID Museum
A hands-on maker museum with coding, robotics, engineering, electronics, woodshop, textiles, and design challenges.
Morris Museum Spark!Lab
A Smithsonian invention workspace where children ages 5 to 12 imagine, design, test, and improve ideas.
UT Austin Academy for All
UT Austin Computer Science offers a free residential summer academy for rising high-school seniors, combining Arduino or Python/AI projects with teamwork, campus life, and technology-career exploration.
KidsSTOP
An early-years science centre with more than 20 interactive exhibits about flight, space, the human body, and everyday science.
Putnam Museum Science in Action
Interactive science exhibits and engineering challenges exploring motion, energy, magnetism, circuits, gears, and more.
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, workshops, shows, and galleries for children, families, and school groups.
Discovery Cube
Hands-on science museums in Southern California with exhibits, field trips, free online activities, STEM events, and family learning.
London Museum of Water and Steam for Families
Hands-on water and engineering discovery with working steam engines, a Waterworks Gallery, a Splash Zone, and family trails.
Sciencenter Exhibits
A science museum in Ithaca with more than 250 interactive exhibits covering weather, space, engineering, animals, oceans, physics, and hands-on early learning.
ExplorationWorks
A hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits, early-childhood programming, family events, and science learning for children and families.
Wiz Robotics We Do
Wiz Robotics We Do is an in-person introduction to robotics, coding, and engineering through storytelling and LEGO WeDo components, with small-group sessions for beginners.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
Science Museum Energy Hall
The Science Museum’s Energy Hall traces steam power and industrial change through historic full-size engines, models, and engineering stories, with an educational gallery page for family and school visits.