Exhibits
Please
touch Everything!
At the Children's Museum, exhibits are designed by education professionals (all
former kids themselves) and are hands-on, participatory, exciting, and FUN thinking-doing-discovery activities.
When you visit, look for:
- Hospital area
including ambulance
- Papermaking
factory
- TV
Studio and FETCH!Lab
- Fork-Lift Truck
- Cityscape
- Theater
- Creation art studio
Educational text in each exhibit area offers suggestions to increase fun and learning.
The
Curvy Climber
Children engage in complex physical activity exploring the
wavy platform levels high above the exhibit floor—with
the best views in the house! Designed by Thomas
Luckey, it is a unique exhibit!
Curvy
Crawler
How fast can you crawl through the tunnel?
Water Table
Our water table references the Holyoke Canal System and Connecticut River.
Children can set “dams” in place, practice measuring, and watch water wheels turn.
Cityscape
A
Child-Sized Main Street, featuring
- Little Market
- Observation Station
- The Post Office
- Do-Da Diner
The Scientific Company
Discovering the Physical Sciences
- Frozen
Shadows where you place your body
in front of the photosensitive wall and "freeze"
the image of your shadow.
- MaxiRollways
in which you design your own gravity maze! Move the
colored slats around and discover the unlimited number of
possible pathways for the golf balls to travel.
- Giant
Bubblemaker where you can make
the biggest bubbles you've ever seen!
Tot Lot
This separate area is geared for the Museum's youngest visitors, aged 2 and
under. Little ones enjoy returning to play here again and again; repetition
and familiar surroundings are important facets
There are books and toys, all in a sunny, safe space with a terrific view of the canal
and urban landscape right outside our building.
|
