Museums & places
Curated museums & places resources within maker & diy for curious kids and their grown-ups.
← All Maker & DIY resources
23 resources · Museums & places
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
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.
Science Oxford Centre
A hands-on science centre with an Exploration Zone, woodland, ponds, family days, STEM clubs, and science activities for children.
Draper Spark!Lab
The National Museum of American History’s Spark!Lab invites children to create, collaborate, test, experiment, and invent through hands-on STEM and art activities.
Science World
A Vancouver science centre with hands-on exhibits, live shows, family programs, digital learning, and educator resources.
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.
Oslo Science Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, creative workshops, and family learning at Norway's Museum of Science and Technology.
The Garden at the Science Museum
The Science Museum’s Garden is a free interactive gallery for young children, with play-based construction, water, light, and sound activities that encourage observing, predicting, testing, and drawing conclusions.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology Kids & Family
The Vienna Museum of Science and Technology’s Kids & Family guide brings together child-focused exhibitions, playful technology experiences, birthday programs, and a free English children’s tour in the TMW ToGo app.
Early Start Discovery Space
The University of Wollongong’s Early Start Discovery Space is a research-backed children’s museum with interactive play experiences, public programmes, and learn-through-play opportunities for young children and their adults.
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Activities for Kids
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s Activities for Kids collection provides art projects inspired by exhibitions and the permanent collection, with video or PDF instructions.
Boise State Kidsteam
Boise State University’s Kidsteam invites children to help design technology with researchers through free twice-weekly after-school sessions involving drawing, programming, problem solving, and collaborative making.
UArizona Girls Who Code Club
The University of Arizona’s Girls Who Code club offers free Saturday coding classes for grades 6–12, including Python, Arduino, robotics, AI, website development, and game projects.
PlayWorks™ — Children’s Museum of Manhattan
A birth-to-four learning space combining music, movement, stories, sensory art, puzzles, engineering, and pretend play through daily programs.
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.
Johnson Museum Kids Make Activities
Cornell’s Johnson Museum Kids Space offers creative activities inspired by artists’ processes, including collage, tree prints, mystery maps, and paper clay sculpture.
ExplorationWorks
A hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits, early-childhood programming, family events, and science learning for children and families.
Niantic Children’s Museum
An interactive children’s museum with imagination, discovery, outdoor play, science, arts, and world-culture exhibits for children ages 9 months to 9 years.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
MOCHA Open Studio
MOCHA Open Studio invites children ages 0–10 to explore materials and create freely with family support, with staff available to help children get started.
National Children’s Museum
Hands-on museum exhibits, maker activities, and family learning experiences in Washington, DC.