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Crown Family PlayLab
Crown Family PlayLab at Chicago’s Field Museum is an early-childhood play and learning environment for ages 2–6 where children investigate nature, culture, and science through hands-on activities.
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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.
Children’s Art Library — Art Gallery of NSW
The Children’s Art Library is a welcoming physical reading and art space with books about art and artists, books by artists, inclusive collections, and family activities at the Art Gallery of NSW.
PAW Patrol: Adventure Play
PAW Patrol: Adventure Play is a traveling exhibit at Please Touch Museum where young children use rescue-themed role play, vehicles, problem solving, and collaborative play to explore a community helper world.
Arundel Museum Families
Arundel Museum family activities include visual stories, I-Spy trails, craft films, activity sheets, family backpacks, and hands-on gallery activities that connect children with local history.
Kids’ Kingdom — Deutsches Museum
Kids’ Kingdom is an interactive exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich for children ages 3–8, designed around playful exploration of everyday science, technology, and the world around them.
Please Touch Museum
Please Touch Museum is a child-centered museum in Philadelphia built around imagination, pretend play, making, and hands-on learning for children and families.
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.
All About Art — Miami Children’s Museum
All About Art is a Miami Children’s Museum exhibit introducing children to the elements of art through hands-on making, visual exploration, and creative studio-style activities.
Children’s Museum of Atlanta Exhibits
The Children’s Museum of Atlanta offers a rotating and permanent set of hands-on exhibits for young children, including early science, engineering, art, geography, food, and imaginative play.
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