VISIT

This kid-size city puts kids in charge and lets them learn through role-playing and decision-making. Practice fine motor skills, health and wellness knowledge, collaboration and communication.

• Select your ingredients for dinner and find them in the supermarket.
• Assemble and serve a tasty sandwich in the Bistro.

Fill up your piggybank with exploration, curiosity, and discovery at Please Touch Museum with our brand-new exhibit: Cents and Sensibility Fun with Money presented by PNC Bank. This brand-new exhibit, the Museum’s first permanent exhibit in over a decade, will get you and your children puzzling through ways to earn, save, spend and share in 2019!

• Dollars and Cents Scale – What coins add up to make a dollar? Develop different combinations with interactive money to find the perfect balance!
• Money Maze – An expansive puzzle allows visitors to move their “money ball” through the maze and learn about the concepts of “Spend, Save, and Share.” Will you make it to the end or spend, spend, spend?
• Investment Plinko – Watch in anticipation as your investments gain or lose money with this hands-on game where visitors place imaginative coins at the top and wait to see where their investment will land.

This kid-size city puts kids in charge and lets them learn through role-playing and decision-making. Practice fine motor skills, health and wellness knowledge, collaboration and communication.

• Scan a doll on the x-ray or MRI machines in the hospital.

This kid-size city puts kids in charge and lets them learn through role-playing and decision-making. Practice fine motor skills, health and wellness knowledge, collaboration and communication.

• Tend your urban garden.

Take a trip down the rabbit hole into a world where nothing is as it seems. Practice communication, critical thinking and gross and fine motor skills.

• Navigate the hedge maze on your way to the Mad Hatter’s endless tea party.
• Paint the roses red and watch as they change color before your eyes.
• Find the shrinking hallway as you wind through the Hall of Mirrors.
• Play a game of croquet with flamingos and hedgehogs.
• Travel into the pages of classic children’s stories in Fairytale Garden Toddler Area.

Memorial Hall wasn’t always the home of Please Touch Museum. This architectural masterpiece was built for the 1876 United States Centennial and World’s Fair. Explore the unique history of Memorial Hall and West Philadelphia and see how this event has affected your own life. Practice STEAM literacy, historic awareness, fine motor skills, classification and collaboration.

• Locate Memorial Hall in the massive historic recreation of the 1876 World’s Fair.
• Set up a wooden train set that can span half of the gallery.
• Ring the bell in the locomotive of a train.

Our programs provide a welcoming, friendly introduction to the Museum and begin to instill in young visitors a love of discovery and learning, encouraging future cultural experiences. All programs are informed by current research and best practices in the fields of informal learning, museum education and early childhood education.

The Playhouse at Please Touch Museum invites children to exercise their imaginations and enter new worlds. Inside the theater, visitors experience theater in engaging, interactive and unexpected ways. In addition to ongoing theater productions, we’re dedicated to bringing diverse performers from Philadelphia and around the world!