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Venue Confirmed:

• October 2010 - January 2011: Betty Brinn Children's Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
• February - May 2011: Miami Children's Museum (FL)
• June - September 2011: Discovery Science Center (Santa Anna, CA)
• February - May 2012: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (IN)

Venue Open:

• October 2011 - January 2012
• Please inquire about tour availability in 2012 and beyond.

Past Venues:

• October 2008 - January 2009: The Children’s Museum, Seattle (WA)
• February - May 2009: Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester, NY)
• June - September 2009: Orlando Science Center (FL)
• October 2009 - January 2010: Marbles Kids Museum (Raleigh, NC)
• February - May 2010: Exploration Place (Wichita, KS)
• June - September 2010: McWane Science Center (Birmingham, AL)

exhibits@bbcmkids.org

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Venue Open: Spring 2012, Fall 2012 and beyond

Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog transports visitors to the world of Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and all of the residents of Birdwell Island. Like tourists visiting Birdwell Island, visitors will start their journey to the exhibit aboard the Birdwell Island ferry, complete with seagull sounds and clanking ship bells.

Families take the captain's seat and steer the ship's wheel as they disembark and enter the world of Clifford and Emily Elizabeth. All of the exhibit "sites" are environments based on locations found on the PBS Kids Clifford The Big Red Dog television series. The exhibit content and environments are targeted toward ages 2-8, families and school groups and include:

• Exhibit Entry: A lighthouse leads the way for visitors to enter the exhibit.
• Birdwell Island Ferry: Upon entering the exhibit, visitors climb aboard the Birdwell Island ferry and try their hands at steering the ferry as passengers hear ocean noises and an announcement of their arrival to Birdwell Island.
• Samuel's Fish and Chips Shack: As visitors step inside Samuel's restaurant, they step into the shoes of restaurant workers by cooking, cleaning, serving food, and restocking shelves. A cash register, order pads, and a menu promote early literacy and early math skills.
• T-Bone's Beach Fun: Families visit T-Bone and his bone-shaped sand box where they put together a sculpted sand castle puzzle, dig for treasure of different shapes and sizes, and play with plastic connectable fish from a treasure chest.
• Clifford and his doghouse: A giant Clifford invites visitors to sit on his paw next to Emily Elizabeth or slide down his tail. Visitors are encouraged to try their hand at keeping Clifford's dog bowl full by loading dog food into his bowl with a conveyor belt.
• Emily Elizabeth's Backyard Theater: Children don costumes and step onstage in front of a Clifford backdrop to join in the fun. Seating is arranged in front for audience members.
• Howard's Home: Visitors help out Emily Elizabeth's family by doing some hands-on yard-care and tending to the flowers in the garden.
• Cleo's Backyard: Cleo welcomes our youngest visitors to her backyard-a small tot play land. Based on the items found in Cleo's yard, the exhibit components encourage large-muscle development and appropriate risk-taking.
• Birdwell Island Post Office: Visitors can deliver their own hand-made letters or pre-addressed letters to the post office and mailboxes throughout the exhibit.
• Author's Corner and Reading Area: This library includes a cozy book nook with bookshelves filled with Clifford stories. Visitors view video clips of Norman Bridwell and browse through an art gallery to get an inside look at the development of Clifford The Big Red Dog and Mr.
  Bridwell's creative process over the past 40 years
  

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/adventures-with-clifford/

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Venue Open: Fall 2011 (Discount Available!), Fall 12 and beyond

Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog transports visitors to the world of Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and all of the residents of Birdwell Island. Like tourists visiting Birdwell Island, visitors will start their journey to the exhibit aboard the Birdwell Island ferry, complete with seagull sounds and clanking ship bells.
Families take the captain's seat and steer the ship's wheel as they disembark and enter the world of Clifford and Emily Elizabeth. All of the exhibit "sites" are environments based on locations found on the PBS Kids Clifford The Big Red Dog television series.

The exhibit content and environments are targeted toward ages 2-8, families and school groups and include:

• Exhibit Entry: A lighthouse leads the way for visitors to enter the exhibit.
  
• Birdwell Island Ferry: Upon entering the exhibit, visitors climb aboard the Birdwell Island ferry and try their hands at steering the ferry as passengers hear ocean noises and an announcement of their arrival to Birdwell Island.
  
• Samuel's Fish and Chips Shack: As visitors step inside Samuel's restaurant, they step into the shoes of restaurant workers by cooking, cleaning, serving food, and restocking shelves. A cash register, order pads, and a menu promote early literacy and early math skills.
  
• Musical Marina: In this kid-sized music station, visitors find Clifford's giant Xylobone, festive maracas, and an assortment of drums from around the world to participate in cross-cultural music-making and open play.
  
• T-Bone's Beach Fun: Families visit T-Bone and his bone-shaped sand box where they put together a sculpted sand castle puzzle, dig for treasure of different shapes and sizes, and play with plastic connectable fish from a treasure chest.
  
• Clifford and his doghouse: A giant Clifford invites visitors to sit on his paw next to Emily Elizabeth or slide down his tail. Visitors are encouraged to try their hand at keeping Clifford's dog bowl full by loading dog food into his bowl with a conveyor belt.
  
• Emily Elizabeth's Backyard Theater: Visitors choose an animated background from the Clifford television show, don costumes, and step onstage to join in the fun. Seating is arranged in front for audience members.
  
• Howard's Home: Visitors help out Emily Elizabeth's family by doing some hands-on yard-care and tending to the flowers in the garden.
• Cleo's Backyard: Cleo welcomes our youngest visitors to her backyard*a small tot play land. Based on the items found in Cleo's yard, the exhibit components encourage large-muscle development and appropriate risk-taking.
  
• Birdwell Island Post Office: Visitors deliver their own hand-made letters or pre-addressed letters to the post office and mailboxes throughout the exhibit.
  
• Birdwell Island Library and Norman Bridwell Art Retrospective: This library includes a cozy book nook with bone-shaped benches and bookshelves filled with Clifford stories. Visitors play interactive. Clifford games and view video clips of Norman Bridwell. An art gallery gives visitors an inside look into the development of Clifford The Big Red Dog and Mr. Bridwell's creative process over the past 40 years.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/adventures-with-clifford/

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Venue Open: Fall 2011and beyond

Come castle folk! Come dance and play! Visitors playfully explore the interconnectedness of community members in a setting inspired by fantasy and history. From becoming a jester and putting on a show, to helping the cook prepare a feast and constructing a bench in the carpenter's workshop, children's play and learning are supported by the exhibit's design, characters, narrative, interactives, costumes and props. The exhibit is targeted toward children ages 10 and younger, families, and school groups. Each component of the exhibit invites the visitor to experience community life through the perspective of one of nine characters working together to throw a party in the castle.

Key areas include:

• Exhibit Entry and Big Book: Lord Ben and Lady Evolent welcome visitors, who can begin their adventure by reading the story of The Amazing Castle and its inhabitants.
  
• The Keep: Toddlers create a miniature community in a castle-inspired dollhouse, build their own fortress out of "stone" blocks, and play with a castle busy wall.
  
• The Great Hall and Garden: Friends and family can take a seat at the royal table while children prepare a mouthwatering meal with "Kipper the Cook." They'll select ingredients from a larder stocked with bread, vegetables and fruits, and choose a main course to prepare and cook in a cauldron at the fireplace. They can join "Posey the Gardener" in the royal garden to pick and plant vegetables and gather eggs from a hen in the garden shed.
  
• Royal Puppet Theatre: Children and adults become castle entertainers when they visit "HiJinx the Jester" in the Royal Puppet Theatre to present a puppet show. Children can pick out a fancy robe, pull up a throne and become the Lord or Lady, or don the jester's costume and entertain the Lord and Lady.
  
• The Tailor's Workshop: Visitors try their hand at repairing and making clothing for all of the castle citizens with "Trim the Tailor." They can play a game, design costumes, create their own outfits, and discover how silly their costumes appear when they look at themselves in a distorted mirror!
  
• The Carpenter's Workshop: Children and adults can grab a work apron and help "Gable the Carpenter" build a simple table or chair using mortise and tenon construction, or put together something of their own design.
  
• The Blacksmith's Workshop: Families join "Synge the Blacksmith" to help her affix a metal patch to the hole in Kipper's big iron cauldron. Children and adults can also pretend to repair iron tools using a stone forge with "glowing" coals, a water bucket, and Synge's anvil.
  
• The Dragon Tower: The Dragon Tower is home to "Herald the Dragon," who announces important information to the citizens of The Amazing Castle. But Herald keeps falling asleep and needs to be awakened frequently. Visitors can wake Herald by matching each of the six electronic castle character puzzle pieces with his or her appropriate tool or symbol.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/the-amazing-castle/

Venue Confirmed:

• June - August 2009: Children's Museum of Manhattan (New York, NY)

Venue Open:

• September - December 2010
• January - April 2010
• May - August 2010

Past Venue:

• September - December 2008: Insights El Paso Science Msueum (TX)
• January - April 2008: Don Harrington Discovery Center (Amarillo, TX)
• April - July 2008: Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas, NV)

michaelr@discoverycentermuseum.org

http://www.discoverycentermuseum.org/exhibits/rent.php

Venue Confirmed:

• Summer 2011: The New Children's Museum (San Diego, CA)
  
• Fall 2011: Catholic University (Santiago, Chili)
  

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh partners with the Andy Warhol Museum to create The Art of Andy Warhol, a unique, interactive exhibit featuring original Warhol silkscreen prints and a working silkscreen studio.

In this exhibit, visitors experience the silk screen process from beginning to end. After designing an original image out of newsprint, young artists take their images to the silkscreen bed, place them under the screen and assist staff in spreading the ink across the screen with a squeegee. The screen is then lifted and the original piece of art is complete.

The artwork includes Warhol's Myth Series, prints of fantasy characters from his childhood, and Toy paintings, based on his passion for collecting toys. Other activities include costumes inspired by the Myth Series characters, a reading area with books on Andy Warhol and art, and original tin toys from Warhol's collection. The exhibition includes a comprehensive education manual with enriching lesson plans and resources.

10/26/2010

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Past Venues:

• Strong Museum, Rochester, NY
  
• COSI-Columbus
  
• Grand Rapids Children's Museum, MI
  
• Telus World of Science, Calgary, AB
  
• Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana, CA
  
• Imagine It: Children's Museum of Atlanta,
  

Call or email for availability... Available Fall 2011

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to step inside the popular television series Bob the Builder™? Now you'll have the chance!

The newest traveling exhibition from The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Bob the Builder™- Project: Build It, will bring Bob the Builder's world filled with colorful characters, inspiring teamwork and "green" themes to life for girls and boys and their families. Based on the sets from the popular television series by HIT Entertainment, Bob the Builder-Project: Build It is rich in objects, shapes, sounds, colors and hands-on activities.

Bob the Builder- Project: Build It introduces young children to Sunflower Valley, Bob's newest project. Here children will help Bob, Wendy and the rest of the team build this new community. They will be able to build, fix and decorate right alongside Bob and his friends. When children enter the exhibit, they can say "Hello" to life-sized three-dimensional show characters on their way to Sunflower Valley. In Bob's Mobile Home, they will learn more about Bob the Builder's Big Plan, look at blueprints for his project, and even play with a scale model of Sunflower Valley.

Families will also be able to explore a life-size version of the Machine Shelter where they can play with the building machines from Bob the Builder's team-- Roley, Scoop, Muck and Scrambler. They can even work together to "build" the shelter using fake stones and wooden planks. Families will also be able to explore tools and materials in Bob's Workshop. Inside, they will operate child-friendly equipment, fix a sink and design a blueprint. Families can also plant a garden near Wendy's Caravan, work as a team at the Sunflower Valley Water Pump with Farmer Pickles, Build an Eco-Friendly Cottage and much more.

Can we build it? Yes we can!

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Body Carnival: The Science and Fun of Being You uses carnival-themed components to explore the connections between perception and laws of physics as related to the human body. Eighteen components invite visitors to crawl through a giant artery to see and hear the effects of plaque build-up on blood flow, test their balance as they walk through the 10-foot Dizzy Tunnel, try on a pair of vision-distorting goggles and discover how sight affects the ability to walk straight, experiment in the House of Color with different sources of light, “hear” through their bones and muscles while learning how these transmit sound, and more.

Building Brainstorm, which was developed with the Center for Architecture Foundation, creates a fantasy architecture studio in which children ages 5-12 & their families research & explore a range of building design challenges. Kids & adults experiment with building materials, explore engineering problems & investigate how their choices about light, form, structure and organization can impact a building's design.

Visitors:

• Build 3-D models with architectural blocks
• Create 3-D crawl-through structures using geometric frames & fabric
• Design their own layouts for a family apartment or house
• Transform a home's interior using a computer design game
• Match 2-D geometric magnetic shapes to Shanghai's dramatic skyline
• Experiment with light & space at a window research station Building Brainstorm is trilingual (English, Spanish, French), meets national curriculum standards in design, problem-solving, social studies & the visual arts.