Museums & places Hands-on
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Georgia Museum of Art Family Day
Georgia Museum of Art Family Day is a free monthly drop-in program with gallery activities, a hands-on art project, self-guided prompts, and a family-friendly theme.
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Boston Children’s Museum Art Lab
Boston Children’s Museum Art Lab is a rotating hands-on art-making program where children and families explore materials, artists, exhibits, and creative processes together.
Harn Museum of Art Family Programs
Harn Museum of Art family programs offer free Museum Days, Art Cart activities, scavenger hunts, Tot Times, gallery exploration, and hands-on art experiences for young children and caregivers.
Sam Noble Museum Little Scientists
Little Scientists is a Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History program for ages 3–5 with stories, games, songs, crafts, and museum exploration built around science themes.
LEAP Museum
LEAP Museum is a hands-on, screen-free play centre where children and families explore building, logic, movement, teamwork, and problem-solving exhibits.
Building Stories — National Building Museum
Building Stories is an ongoing National Building Museum exhibition for children in grades K–3 and families, using children’s literature, hands-on activities, reading, sketching, and building to explore architecture, engineering, construction, and design.
Queensland Museum Mini Museum Explorers
Mini Museum Explorers is Queensland Museum Kurilpa’s early-learning program for ages 3–5, combining real objects, STEM activities, stories, songs, and movement-based play.
Carnegie Museum Super Science Saturday
Super Science Saturday is a Carnegie Museum of Natural History family program with hands-on stations, crafts, specimens, experts, and online activity ideas built around changing natural-history themes.
The Works Museum
The Works Museum is a hands-on engineering museum for children ages 5–12 and their families, with interactive experiences, science and technology challenges, camps, and family visits.
Maryland Science Center Kids Room Science
Kids Room Science is a Maryland Science Center daily drop-in experience with hands-on activities connected to science concepts, developmental skills, seasons, and interesting materials.
Children’s Museum of Discovery Exhibits
Children’s Museum of Discovery presents hands-on exhibits and programs spanning science, technology, reading, engineering, art, and math, with indoor and nature-based exploration.
Science Center Spectrum
Science Center Spectrum in Berlin is a hands-on science center where children and families explore light, sound, electricity, motion, and other phenomena through interactive experiments.
Long Island Children’s Museum Current Exhibits
Long Island Children’s Museum presents current hands-on exhibits for children and families, including bubbles, construction and building, sound, outdoor discovery, and art- and nature-connected exploration.
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