Big Ideas Festival
at Please Touch Museum
April 1 & 2, 2023
Sponsored by:


Join us for Big Ideas Festival, a celebration of invention, innovation, and collaboration! The theme for our 2023 event is “Building Community.”
- Try your hand at a building challenge in Imagination Playground
- Find out what holds up a bridge in our “Bad Bridges” Makerspace workshop
- Explore different building materials at our “Architexture” cart
- Move your body and use your voice as we work together to create a human machine
- Try out our infant-friendly tools in “Baby Builders”
- Enter a raffle for a Sphero Mini Robot
- … and more!

Featured Activity: Innovators Alley
How can we help make the world a better place? Join us in Innovators’ Alley, featuring activities from some friends of the Museum.
- Out4STEM
- Villanova Chemical Society
- Please Touch Museum Exhibits Department
- Philly Robotics Coalition
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level
Featured Activity: Cardboard City
Come build part of our cardboard city! Add to our recycled landscape and try out your structural engineering skills.
1-3 p.m.
Center Core, Lower Level
