Call or email for availability.

MariaCampanelli@wideopenwest.com

www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Venue Confirmed:

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

exhibits@bbcmkids.org

www.bbcmkids.org/exhibits/salesrentals/mrpotatohead

Venue Open:

• Fall 2008 (Available for $15,00 for this venue only)
• Summer 2009
• Fall 2009
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010

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.
  

Amber Stevenson

Call for Availability

Past Venue:

• July - December 2006: Science Factory (Eugene, OR)

michaelr@discoverycentermuseum.org

www.discoverycentermuseum.org/exhibits/rent

Venue Confirmed:

• January 2009 - April 2009: Waterloo Regional Children's Museum (Kitchener, Ontario)

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh partnered 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.

Venue Open:

• Fall 2009
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010
• Spring 2011
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

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.
  

Amber Stevenson

Venue Open:

• Fall 2009
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010
• Spring 2011
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

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.
  

Venue Confirmed:

• May - September 2009: The Wildlife Experience (Parker, CO)

Venue Open:

• Fall 2009
• Winter 2010
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010
• All seasons open through 2014

Adventures of Riley: Biome Trek is an exciting new traveling exhibit that invites visitors to be field scientists. Using authentic tools and techniques, visitors investigate real-world questions, gain a better understanding of the natural world, and learn that science is accessible to everyone. The exhibit is based on the popular Adventures of Riley children’s book series and is intended for a family audience of all ages.

Visitors to Adventures of Riley: Biome Trek are greeted by the sights and sounds of the world’s biomes, including tundra, grasslands, deserts, forests, and aquatic. Over thirty hands-on activities engage visitors of all ages as they learn about habitats, systems, species diversity, adaptation, human populations, and more.

Adventures await the whole family in Adventures of Riley: Biome Trek. Each biome presents a new mystery through immersive “you are there” sights and sounds of nature that a field scientist would experience, utilizing the visitor’s problem solving skills in multiple hands-on interactives.

Huge photos and videos from around the world draw the visitors into each scene where they are joined by colorful characters from the Adventures of Riley picture book series. Kids of all ages will explore and investigate phenomena such as coral bleaching and shrinking Emperor Penguin populations. Hands-on experimentation and observation will enable visitors to draw conclusions about the impact of these circumstances on the environment.

Dozens of fun activities are designed to employ both fine and gross motor skills, and reach the visitor through a variety of intelligences by manipulating, quantifying, listening, drawing, sharing, and more.

Some of these activities are:

• Walk, crawl, or “swim” through a coral reef to observe “underwater” sea life
• Find critters hiding in the dark desert night by using an infrared scope
• Collect data about temperature, wind, and rainfall
• Use binoculars, compasses, and other field science gear in realistic simulations
• Hands-on creativity and open-ended exploration:
  • Design a critter
  • Draw plants and animals from sightings
  • Design and build a nest

Exploring the world by peeking, poking, prodding, and building Adventures of Riley: Biome Trek is great learning fun for all!

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

• Summer-Fall 2008: Children’s Museum of Maine (Portland)
• Winter-Spring 2009: Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)
• Summer 2009: Musée de la Nature at des Sciences (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)

Past Venue:

• Winter-Summer 2007: EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
• Fall 2007-Spring 2008: ECHO (Burlington, VT)

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Call for additional information.

The Big Adventure traveling exhibit will put your visitors into the middle of a physically and mentally challenging 3-dimensional game board. Each adventure encourages children's natural desires to explore and investigate as well as challenge their physical abilities in fun activities like a climbing wall, crawling tunnels and a balance beam.

Components: In The Big Adventure, visitors will choose their adventures and, using their own imagination, creativity and physical ability along with found materials, work their way through each of the fun, hands-on challenges:

• The Big Picture - Plan ahead and map out your entire adventure in a large scaled road map of the game board.
• The Main Drag - Cross 3 different textured surfaces on your selected mode of transportation, including scooters and wagons.
• Mt. Adventure - Traverse the face of the "mountainside" with the aid of handholds and footholds.
• Out on a Ledge - Keep your balance as you cross between buildings on beams that appear to be three stories in the air
• River Crossing: Bridge Out! - Cross the river without getting "wet" by building your own bridge using wooden planks, lily pads, and cargo boxes.
• Tunnels of Fun - Navigate the tunnels following a trail of textures and symbols such as dinosaur tracks and shoeprints, leading you to a "crow's nest" where you can look out over The Big Adventure.
• Virtual Flyer - During this virtual air adventure, use your body to tilt the plane, navigating around obstacles such as flocks of birds, balloons, and kites.
• Who's Like You? - Learn about adventure "pioneers," contemporary role models, and everyday adventurers that are just like you!

Rental Includes:

• Target Audience is children 5 to 12 years old, their parents and teachers
• Exhibit and programs are in English and Spanish
• Promotional Marketing Materials
• Education Manual
• Maintenance Support

ssmallwood@cmhouston.org

www.cmhouston.org/bigadventure

Call or email for availability.

MariaCampanelli@wideopenwest.com

www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Contact The Children's Museum of Indianapolis for availability.

charityc@childrensmuseum.org

www.childrensmuseum.org/traveling_exhibits/bobthebuilder/photos

Call for Availabiltiy

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.

Venue Confirmed:

• Premiered January 17, 2009 - April 12, 2009: Terre Haute Children's Museum (IN)

Venue Confirmed:

• May - August 2008: Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago (Glenview, IL) (refurbishment)
• January - April 2009: Cincinnati Museum of Art (OH)

Venue Open: Contact museum to confirm venue availability.

• May - August 2009
• September - December 2009
• January - April 2010
• May - August 2010
• September - December 2010

Past Venue:

• January - April 2007: Waterloo Regional Children's Museum (Ontario, Canada)
• May - August 2007: San Antonio Children's Museum (TX)
• September - December 2007: Houston Children's Museum (TX)
• January - April 2008: Muncie Children's Museum (IN)

rlyon@kohlchildrensmuseum.org

www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/chagall

Venue Open:

• May 17-September 9, 2009
• May 23 - August 30, 2009

Venue Confirmed:

• September 29, 2008 - May 3, 2009: Spurlock Museum (Urbana, IL)

Based on DK Publishing’s award-winning book, this exhibit showcases the unique diversity of the world’s children while also exploring the common bonds they share. Eleven vignettes take young visitors around the world to meet their peers on six continents. Self-paced, hands-on activities in each vignette strengthen cross-cultural connections through a variety of learning styles. Includes floor and classroom programming ideas and materials, promotional materials, and on-site installation and de-installation assistance.

kgraham@cincymuseum.org

www.cincymuseum.org/information_center/traveling_exhibits/children_like_me

Venue Confirmed:

• Summer 2008: SciWorks (Winston-Salem, NC)
• October 9, 2009 - January 15, 2009: Memphis Children's Museum (TN)
• May 14, 2009 - September 7, 2009: Kohl Children's Museum (Glenview, IL)

• January 15, 2009 - April 30, 2009
• September 15, 2009 onwards

clifford@scienceinteractives.com

www.scienceinteractives.com

$25,000, plus inbound shipping

Venue Confirmed:

• Debuts October 10-12, 2008: OneThing Energy Expo (Hartford, CT)

Venue Open:

• Fall 2008
• Winter 2009
• Spring 2009
• Summer 2009
• Fall 2009
• Winter 2010
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010
• Winter 2010

$25,000

Venue Confirmed:

• Debuts October 10-12, 2008: OneThing Energy Expo (Hartford, CT)

Venue Open:

• Fall 2008
• Winter 2008
• Spring 2009
• Summer 2009
• Fall 2009
• Winter 2010
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010
• Fall 2010

Venue Open:

• Spring 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

Letting curiosity and inquiry be their guides, visitors explore familiar buildings and locales from the Curious George book series and PBS KIDS® television series in Curious George: Let's Get Curious! The exhibit presents key concepts in science, math, and engineering, which are woven and layered throughout the exhibit. Activities invite visitors of all ages to learn like George - through direct experience and problem solving! Upon entry to the exhibit, visitors find themselves on an urban street and are transported to the neighborhood in which Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Families find themselves surrounded by familiar places and faces, while encountering new challenges and ideas. The show's supporting characters appear throughout the exhibit, helping to provide context, deliver parent and take-home messages, and inject humor. Activities have multigenerational appeal and are targeted toward children ages 3-7, families, and school groups.

Key areas include:

• Exhibit Entry: Visitors find themselves on an urban street and meet George who - with a bunch of balloons in hand - is clinging by foot to the top of a traffic light.
• Apartment Building: Families move George on a pulley to help him wash the apartment windows. Inside, they manipulate objects and explore the properties of light, shadow, color, and shape to create dynamic displays in the building's windows. In the lobby, visitors can open the tenants' mailboxes to reveal different effects, games, and mechanical toys.
• Sidewalk Produce: Stand Families sort produce at a charming sidewalk produce stand and play the roles of customer or salesperson as they explore shape, sorting, weighing, and counting with colorful fruit and vegetable props.
• Construction Site: Visitors encounter a construction zone in the middle of George's neighborhood. Oodles of materials invite children to design and build structures, from small to tall, 2D to 3D. Children work together to move materials using conveyer belts, pulleys, and levers.
• Park: The park welcomes infants, toddlers, and adults, providing a spot to rest, and special interactives for the youngest visitors. A full-size huggable George is here, too.
• Mini Golf: Visitors putt their way through three miniature golf holes, experimenting with physics, engineering, and math in the process.
• Rocket: Families can have their pictures taken in front of a rocket façade ala a carnival standy and can choose to e-mail the photo to their home address.
• Farm: Visitors will experience the power of wind and cause-and-effect as they use wind to move a collection of windmills, whirligigs, windsocks, and wind chimes. They can build their own whirligigs to test and take home. Plush farm animals in pens are located just outside the barn for children to care for and cuddle.
• Retrospective: Inside this museum, the history of the Reys and their creative work will be told through interactive displays of text and images, photos, sketches, vintage and current merchandise and other artworks.

Amber Stevenson

Venue Open:

• Spring 2011
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

Letting curiosity and inquiry be their guides, visitors explore familiar buildings and locales from the Curious George book series and PBS KIDS® television series in Curious George: Let's Get Curious! The exhibit presents key concepts in science, math, and engineering, which are woven and layered throughout the exhibit. Activities invite visitors of all ages to learn like George - through direct experience and problem solving! Upon entry to the exhibit, visitors find themselves on an urban street and are transported to the neighborhood in which Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Families find themselves surrounded by familiar places and faces, while encountering new challenges and ideas. The show's supporting characters appear throughout the exhibit, helping to provide context, deliver parent and take-home messages, and inject humor.Activities have multigenerational appeal and are targeted toward children ages 3-7, families, and school groups.

Key areas include:

• Exhibit Entry: Visitors find themselves on an urban street and meet George who - with a bunch of balloons in hand - is clinging by foot to the top of a traffic light.
• Apartment Building: Families move George on a pulley to help him wash the apartment windows. Inside, they manipulate objects and explore the properties of light, shadow, color, and shape to create dynamic displays in the building's windows. In the lobby, visitors can open the tenants' mailboxes to reveal different effects, games, and mechanical toys.
• Sidewalk Produce Stand: Families sort produce at a charming sidewalk produce stand and play the roles of customer or salesperson as they explore shape, sorting, weighing, and counting with colorful fruit and vegetable props.
• Construction Site: Visitors encounter a construction zone in the middle of George's neighborhood. Oodles of materials invite children to design and build structures, from small to tall, 2D to 3D. Children work together to move materials using conveyer belts, pulleys, and levers.
• Park: The park welcomes infants, toddlers, and adults, providing a spot to rest, and special interactives for the youngest visitors. A full-size huggable George is here, too.
• Mini Golf: Visitors putt their way through three miniature golf holes, experimenting with physics, engineering, and math in the process.
• Rocket: Children climb up the rocket and peek out a porthole to look at their families below and have their picture taken to e-mail home. They'll even see George floating in space with his space suit! They then arrive back to earth via a slide.
• Farm: Visitors will experience the power of wind and cause-and-effect as they use wind to move a collection of windmills, whirligigs, windsocks, and wind chimes. They can build their own whirligigs to test and take home. Plush farm animals in pens are located just outside the barn for children to care for and cuddle.
• Retrospective: Inside this museum, the history of the Reys and their creative work will be told through interactive displays of text and images, photos, sketches, vintage and current merchandise and other artworks.
  

Contraptions being updated and refurbished Summer 2008.

Venue Confirmed:

• January 29, 2009 - May 3, 2009: Long Island Children's Museum (Garden City, NY)

Venue Open:

• October 1, 2008 - January 15, 2009
• Mid-May 2009 onwards

clifford@scienceinteractives.com

www.scienceinteractives.com

Call for additional information.

Cyberchase, The Chase is On! is based on the Emmy-award winning PBS series CYBERCHASE created by Thirteen/WNET – New York that teaches children math concepts through a fun approach to which they can relate and understand. Packed with mystery, humor and action, the TV show features a team of curious kids who outwit, outsmart and outlast the bad guys in their adventurous quest to save Cyberspace. The exhibit concepts were drawn from Cybersites and adventures featured in various CYBERCHASE episodes including many favorites such as Tikiville, Poddleville, Eureeka and more!

Cyberchase – The Chase Is On! invites children to join the CyberSquad on an action-packed adventure to thwart Hacker, the TV show’s nefarious villain, using their math and reasoning skills just like Matt, Jackie, Inez and Digit! Cyberchase – The Chase Is On! presents math in an engaging, visually rich environment, allowing visitors to make use of their critical thinking skills and explore math with an investigative, positive attitude. With a team of mathematical advisors and experts, content and activities for the exhibit are designed to reach a target audience of children ages 5-10 years old, their families and teachers. Also, because of the extensive outreach materials and support included both in the exhibit rental and through partnership with WNET, the exhibit is a success not only in bringing families and school groups to your museum but also in taking the educational ideals of your museum out to the community.

Included in the exhibit rental:

• 23 Hands-on activities in multiple component areas
• 15 Bilingual Kit-based activities that your museum gets to keep after the tour leaves, complete with all materials needed to engage your visitors immediately
• 120 Additional Bilingual Math activities to supplement the exhibit
• School Field Trip Guide: promote school tours with this detailed teacher guide. Complete with pre- and post-visit activities to continue constructing mathematical learning in the classroom.
• Educational Manual: hands-on activities and ideas to enhance the exhibit experience.
• Family Learning Event Guide: an extensive program to enrich family learning opportunities in your community.
• Digit character costume
• Bilingual Marketing Materials: press releases, a PSA, approved marketing pieces and ideas galore!
• Customized programming to maximize outreach to Latino audiences

ssmallwood@cmhouston.org

www.cmhouston.org/cyberchase

Call for Updated Schedule

Venue Open:

• Currently available for booking in Winter 2008 through Summer 2011

Dinosaurs! features seven, half-sized roaring robotic dinosaurs including the king – Tyrannosaurus rex – Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Dimetrodon, Stegosaurus and a mother Apatosaurus protecting her newly hatched babies. Take visitors beyond the bones through a primordial swamp to see how these prehistoric creatures may have looked, and sounded, when they roamed the earth millions of years ago. Exhibit includes seven animatronic units, air compressor, plus silk plants, trees, wooden stanchions and decorative mulch to create your own primordial swamp.

Discount Offered Spring/Summer 2009! Call or Email for More Information and Additional Availability

Venue Confirmed:

• September 19, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Minnetrista (MN)
• January 15 - May 7, 2011 Junior Museum of Bay County (Panama City, FL)

Past Venue:

• Feburary 3 - May 13 2007: Oshkosh Public Museum (WI)
• May 26 - Sept. 3, 2007: Delaware Museum of Natural History (Whilmington)
• January 19 - May 11, 2008: North Carolina Arboretum (Asheville)

"Step Right Up, step right up...experience the strange, the unexplainable, the UNSPEAKABLE underworld of our bizarre beasts. All alive, all on stage! ENTER IF YOU DARE!” —so says Dr. Entomo, the part-man, part-bug host ready to take you on a journey of discovery.

Is it true? Are they real?! Let Dr. Entomo be your guide as you explore the wonderful world of bugs in all their strange splendor. Creatures that Glow-In-The-Dark, Two-Headed Devils and Sumo-Wrestling Beetles challenge your sensibilities and will fascinate visitors of all ages!

Displayed as a Circus Sideshow, this exhibit features tarantulas, scorpions, centipedes and other "bugs" as a living collection that acts as a vehicle for discussing their various life habits and means of survival. Alter egos, masters of disguise, chemical warfare and outright bluffing are a sampling of the many ways in which bugs survive and are discussed throughout the show.

With a focus on education and building an appreciation for the complex lives these bugs lead, several interactive experiences are presented to highlight some of the more unusual. For instance, did you know that the Giant Vinegaroon got its name from the fact that, when stressed, they emit a spray of acetic acid, also known as vinegar? Pump the "Vinegar Extractor" and smell what we're talking about. And what about those big, shiny black scorpions? Activate the black light and watch them glow an eerie green.

Suitable for Natural History Museums, Children's Museums, Public Museums, Science Centers and any institution wanting to capture the family audience, this exhibit is family-friendly in its design and content and resonates well with kids of all ages.

Outhouse Exhibit Services specializes in creating customized insect exhibits, suitable for display at any type or size institution. Our unique, self-contained design factors in all USDA and other regulatory considerations for maximum flexibility and ease of use. In addition, our staff provides complete installation, staff training and all other administrative support to ensure a seamless, enjoyable experience for your staff as well as your visitors.

Please visit our website for more information.

mia@outhouseonline.com

http://www.drentomo.com

Call or email for information

randrews@fi.edu

www.fi.edu/exhibitservices

• September 2008 onwards

clifford@scienceinteractives.com

www.scienceinteractives.com

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

• Winter-Spring 2008: The Health Adventure (Asheville, NC)
• Summer 2008: Catawba Science Center (Hickory, NC) & Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)

Past Venue:

• Winter-Summer 2007: Discovery Center Museum (Rockford, IL) & Family Museum (Bettendorf, IA)
• Fall 2007: Montshire Museum of Science (Norwich, VT) & Rochester Museum & Science Center (NY)

From a cocked eyebrow to the front page news, experience the dynamic variety of tools people use to communicate. Try your brush at virtual cave art, signal a crane operator, puzzle over expressions, send a message in Morse, and more! Designed for interaction, these hands-on experiences invite you to explore the subtle structures we use when sending and receiving information. Designed for children and their families.

Partners: developed by the Discovery Center Museum of Rockford, IL, and the Family Museum of Bettendorf, IA, TEAMS Collaborative. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) www.montshire.org/teams/teams3

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

travelingexhibits@brooklynkids.org

www.brooklynkids.org

Call or email for availability.

MariaCampanelli@wideopenwest.com

www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Venue Confirmed:

• January 2009: Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts (Harrisburg, PA)
• May 2009: Children's Museum of Houston (TX)
• September 2009: Greensboro Children's Museum (NC)
• January 2010: TELUS World of Science and Creative Kids Museum (Calgary, Canada)
• May 2010: Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (Dayton, OH)
• September 2010: Ironworld Museum (Chisholm, MN)

Venue Open:

• January 2011
• May 2011
• September 2011

Past Venue:

• June 2007: Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (PA)
• September 2007: Omaha Children's Museum (NE)
• January 2008: GWiz (Sarasota, FL)
• September 2008: Port Discovery Children's Museum (Baltimore, MD)

Inside Art transforms the works of well-known painters into interactive environments. Stepping into the paintings, children are immersed in the featured works, making a very real and personal connection to the art and the artists.

Children can:

• Prepare a threshing season meal in Grant Wood's vintage farmhouse scene, Dinner for Threshers.
• Arrange a ceremonial pillar of flowers in Diego Rivera's Corn Festival mural.
• Take the reins of a giant chicken and pull their load to town in folk artist Clementine Hunter’s Big Chicken.
• Explore a turn-of-the-century campsite in John Singer Sargent's Camp at Lake O'Hara.

Additional activities draw children into explorations of art around the world and throughout history. Build a sculpture; view original artwork made by children; become the Mona Lisa; go on an art hunt; and more! Inside Art draws on research into the stages of aesthetic development, providing a framework within which adults with all levels of art experience can engage children in the exhibit. Exhibit text is presented in English and Spanish.

jill@kidzibits.com

http://www.kidzibits.com

A small shed sets the scene for The Itsy Bitsy Spider Rain Garden, featuring activities that help children explore the principle of reclaiming and reusing rainwater and the value of utilizing green practices in an urban setting. The exhibit is designed to promote the development of important school-readiness skills, including hand-eye coordination, the ability to perform steps in sequence, and an understanding of basic comparisons and directional terms (e.g., up/down, right/left). Activities also help children experiment with key math and science concepts, including spatial relationships, object permanence and cause/effect.

• A series of lifting mechanisms, cranks and simple levers (and the help of an itsy bitsy spider!) allow children to guide an acrylic ball (raindrop) through the water cycle and into a rain barrel for reuse in the pretend garden.
• Children can plant fabric flowers and vegetables in the garden bed’s furrows using pretend gardening tools, kid-sized gloves and kneeling pads.
• Interactive graphics encourage children to explore the concepts of groundwater and runoff.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider Rain Garden is a beautifully finished and fully functional prototype developed by the Betty Brinn Children’s Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) to promote its new traveling exhibit, Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl: Home Sweet Home (available summer 2009). The Rain Garden was created for display at the annual Association of Children’s Museums national conference (April 2008) and received high praise from our peers for its educational content, engaging activities and important environmental messages. The Rain Garden will be on display in booth 126 at the Association of Science and Technology Center’s annual conference (Oct. 18-21, 2008) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be available for purchase/delivery immediately after the conference. Target audience: Activities are designed for children ages 3-8.

The purchase includes:

• Bilingual signage (English/Spanish) that helps adults understand how children learn through play.
• An installation guide, plus ongoing technical support.
• A one-year limited warranty Only one available!

For more information and photos of the exhibit, please contact Jennifer Sarnowski, Exhibit Sales and Rental Manager.

travelingexhibits@brooklynkids.org

www.brooklynkids.org

• Fall 2008 (Available for $15,000 for this venue only)
• Spring 2009
• Fall 2009
• Spring 2010
• Fall 2010
• Spring 2011

astevenson@mcm.org

www.mcm.org/jumptojapanrental

Venue Confirmed:

• October 31, 2009 - October 3, 2010: Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA)

Kids Design Glass is an interactive exhibition for the whole family that celebrates the creativity of children. Fifty-two glass sculptures, each designed by a child and made by the Museum of Glass Hot Shop Team, form the basis of the exhibition. Each piece is created and assembled under the direction of its young designer. Emphasizing the importance of imaginative play in a high tech world, the whimsical and endearing glass sculptures are accompanied by a creativity station packed with hands-on activities that encourage children to engage their creative minds. Accompanying curriculum and a gallery guide provide simple and entertaining lesson plans in science and art.

A fully illustrated catalog, published in association with the University of Washington Press, provides important perspectives for parents on imaginative play by renowned author and scholar, Dr. Susan Linn. Packaged with the catalog is a storybook for early readers about the creation of Pip, one of the exhibition’s glass creatures, and an educational DVD that provides further resources for the young artist. Each venue is connected to the art of glass making in the Museum's Hot Shop through a live-stream broadcast from the museum’s website (www.museumofglass.org).

For an additional fee, the museum’s Mobile Hot Shop can accompany the exhibition for a period of time and demonstrate the art of glass making onsite. The fifty–two glass sculptures in the exhibition are three-dimensional realizations of the joy of early childhood creativity. Each sculpture originated from a drawing submitted in the Museum’s Kids Design Glass program. Each month, hundreds of drawings are submitted by children ages 12 and under who visit the museum. The Hot Shop artists and education department staff select one drawing per month, and the child and his/her family are invited back to the museum to watch and direct the glass artists as they turn the design into a work of art.

Two pieces are made—one for the child and one for the Museum’s collection. The Hot Shop audience loves this magical process, supporting the child with much applause and encouragement. For some children the experience has been life changing. Partners in the program have included Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA; Dornbecker Children’s Hospital in Portland, OR; local chapters of the Boys and Girls Club of America and scouting programs. The sculptures require protection in vitrines and are presented and photographed as high art paying homage to the importance of play and imagination.

Venue Open:

• Fall 2008
• Winter/Spring 2009
• Summer 2009
• Fall 2009

The Children's Museum of Tacoma's Learning Lounge transforms early childhood research from shelf-bound resources into interactive exhibits that allow children and adults explore different early childhood issues together through play. Smart Moves with Food and Fitness guides children and their caregivers in identifying healthy choices in eating and physical activity habits by engaging children and adults in play and conversation about what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. The modular design of Smart Moves with Food and Fitness allows for great display flexibility. The three separate pieces work alone in a minimum of 300 square feet or can be enhanced by building an environment to support the exhibit, such as a play kitchen or yoga exercise studio.

• Race your opponent to the top of a building by choosing healthy, energy-rich foods.
• Learn which foods and activities fall into go, slow and whoa categories.
• Become your family's master chef by creating healthy weekly menus.
• Discover new ideas for fun games.
• Plan weekly activities to keep moving.

jmcdonald@childrensmuseumoftacoma.org

www.childrensmuseumoftacoma.org

Venue Confirmed:

• January 21 -May 11, 2008: Central Wisconsin Children’s Museum (Stevens Point)
• May 24 - September 14, 2008: San Antonio Children’s Museum (TX)
• September 27, 2008 - March 29, 2009: Kohl Children’s Museum (Glenview, IL)

Venue Open: Please inquire about 2009 tour dates.

Past Venue:

• January 21 - July 23, 2006: Discovery Center at Murfree Springs (TN)
• August 5 - October 29, 2006: The Children's Museum of Denver (CO)
• November 11, 2006 - February 4, 2007: Garden State Discovery Museum (Cherry Hill, NJ)
• February 17 - May 13, 2007: Miami Children's Museum (FL)
• May 26 - August 19, 2007: Lied Discovery Children's Museum (Las Vegas, NV)
• October 1 - January 14, 2008: The Children’s Museum of South Carolina (Myrtle Beach)

jsarnowski@bbcmkids.org

www.bbcmkids.org/exhibits/salesrentals

Venue Confirmed:

• Fall 2008: Brooklyn Children's Museum (NY)

Past Venue:

• Fall 2007: The Children's Museum of Memphis (TN)
• Spring 2008: Canadian Museum of Civilization (Quebec)

Become an International Space Station (ISS) crewmember for a day and engage in a multitude of astronaut activities in this exhibit. Go out-of-this-world in a hands-on traveling exhibit that features planning a day in space, performing work activities such as simulated science experiments, engaging in daily living activities such as mealtime or choosing free-time activities. Visitors will immerse themselves in this unique space environment as they learn about a day in the life of an ISS crewmember.

Living in Space has three distinct areas with accompanying graphics, visuals and labels (in English & Spanish): Living in Space - illustrates how different it is to live in space, including food, sleep and hygiene; Working in Space - concentrates on crewmembers' actual work in space such as building and maintaining the ISS, using the special equipment onboard, docking with the space shuttle and more; Playing in Space - shows that living in space is not just all work and no play as astronauts need a break from their busy schedules when orbiting Earth. Support materials include : Exhibit manual with maintenance and installation instructions; Marketing and PR packet including digital artwork and photos; Education packet including K-6 curriculum guide and ideas for group and public programming. Living in Space was designed and built by The Children's Museum of Memphis for the Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative (YMEC).

Call for Updated Schedule

Venue Open:

• Currently available starting in Winter 2008

Maze Mania is positively puzzling, challenging visitors with 10 mazes of varying types and levels of difficulty. The exhibit’s most prominent maze – a 680 ft. neon-colored fabric banner maze – provides visitors with an immersive experience. Other exhibit components include a rope maze, arrow tile maze, labyrinth, and stations allowing visitors the chance to build their own mazes and solve geometric and tabletop puzzles.

$30,000 Now $20,000 + shipping

Historic Mexican toys collection immerse in PLAYful activities

Read a Washington Times review of the exhibit at its current venue.

Venue Open:

• Available starting Spring 2009 through 2012

Venue Confirmed:

• November 2008 - May 2009: The Woodlands Children's Museum (TX)

Past Venue:

• December 14, 2007 - March 16, 2008: Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC) Tour concluded with reported 30% increase on average attendance.

• April - September 2008: Louisiana Children's Museum (New Orleans)

ane.ariztegui@papalote.org.mx / bertalmac@yahoo.com / lorena.baca@papalote.org.mx / mjimenezdelarco@hotmail.com

Venue Confirmed:

• Summer 2009: New York Hall of Science
• Fall 2009: Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul)
• Winter/Spring 2010: Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul)
• Summer 2010: tentative hold

Venue Open:

• Fall 2010
• Winter/Spring 2011
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011
• Winter/Spring 2012
• Summer 2012

Molecules come in different shapes and sizes. Their shapes tell us a lot abut what they do and how they interact with each other. You can't see molecules, but they're everywhere. Become a molecular detective! Discover how molecules shape our bodies, our medicines and our world. Molecules come in different shapes and sizes. Their shapes tell us a lot about what they do. These microscopic building blocks make up everything around you, in your body, the air you breathe, and even this exhibition.

Exhibition Components: (9 interactive exhibits and graphic panels)

Molecules Shape Our World

• How Many Molecules Make Up Your Body?
• How Small is a Molecule?
• Build a Molecule.

Molecules Shape Our Bodies

• Body Building - Tough as Nails (keratin), Oxygen Carrier (hemoglobin), Healing Net (fibrin), Scent Receptors, Defense Force, Muscle Movers
• Mirror Molecules - (Stereoisomers, Dangerous Twin, Your Nose Knows the Difference between caraway, spearmint)
• Molecule Tools (Nucleosomes, Collagen, Chaperonin, Pepsin, Ferritin)

Molecules Shape Our Medicine

• Germ Busters (Safety from Snakebites, Allergy Attack, Disease Memories)
• Designer Medicines (Gleevec)
• Testing for HIV

Venue Open:

• Dates available in 2010 and 2011 ($21,000 + incoming shipping)

lmartin@cmom.org

www.childrensmuseums.org/programs/monkey

Venue Open:

• Fall 2010
• Spring 2011
• Summer 2011
• Fall 2011
• Spring 2012
• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012

Venue Confirmed:

• Fall 2007: London Regional Children's Museum (Ontario, Canada)
• Spring - Summer 2008: Manitoba Children's Museum (Winnipeg, Canada)
• Fall 2008 - Spring 2009: McCord Museum (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• Summer 2009: Telus World of Science (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
• Spring 2010 - Summer 2010: Exploration Place (Wichita, KS)

shancheruk@childrensmuseum.com

www.box.net

An archeological team has mysteriously disappeared from a dig site in Palenque, Mexico. They had been investigating a long-standing rumor that a priceless jade medallion is buried in the temple there. However, something horrifying has scared them off. Luckily, in their haste to escape, they managed to leave behind a video with clues and a warning to all who come after.

The original team has left behind valuable information in the archeology, biology and astromathematics field stations that they constructed.Student Archeologists must uncover the mystery of the dig site and find the priceless treasure.

Your visitors will:

• Get a taste of what it's like to be an archaelogist, biologist, or astromathematician.
• Explore the world of the ancient Maya.
• Have fun learning about science, language and history with hands-on immersive activities.

Tomb Area: Major architectural element of the exhibit. The Tomb is enclosed on three sides, with an inner chamber and an outer, more dimly lit hallway (wide enough to meet ADA standards) along the left side and the rear of the structure. Three free-standing walls form the exterior of the hallway, and two free-standing wall structures delineate the central, interior chamber of the Tomb.

Examine the Bones/Sarcophagus Rubbing: Visitors examine and identify aspects of a human skeleton using calipers, tape measures, and other tools. They determine that the person was male and died of a blow to the skull received during a war. They make a rubbing of a glyph on the sarcophagus lid.

Observatory: At the observatory, visitors can find out how the Maya studied the stars and how important they were in their culture. As you exit the observatory, you can also learn about four gods that were very important to the Maya, the Maize God, the Rain God, the Death God, and the Great Rainbow Goddess.

Archeology Tent: Visitors will learn more about artifacts they find and what they mean. There are several clues to find along the way, such as a ball player and a conch shell near the tomb. Visitors can also learn how to translate Mayan glyphs into English.

Astromathematics Tent: visitors find out all about the Mayan counting system, and learn how the Mayans built temples to line up with the suns rays.

Biology Tent: Visitors can learn about the creatures they may encounter in an ancient Mayan civilization. Learn to identify several venemous creatures, including the scorpion (highly venomous - seek help at once!), black widow (painful but not often fatal) and the Far-de-Lance (whose bite will cause serious pain and often death). Visitors also learn what the Maya grew and ate.

Treasure Revealed: Visitors break the code, view the mystery medallion—and get an additional surprise. Touching a preset sequence of the four code glyphs triggers the light effect that reveals the interior of the vault. The effect is visible only to the person standing directly in front of the opening. The light stays on for approximately 15-20 seconds. The objects in the vault are invisible when the light is not on.

Call for additional information.

The My Home Planet Earth exhibit is a complete environmental experience created by The Children's Museum of Houston and based on the award-winning curriculum developed by Baylor College of Medicine and was funded through the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Institutes of Health. In the exhibit, children solve mysteries, conduct experiments and learn how to make healthy choices about their air, water and food. As visitors explore the exhibit they discover connections between their health and the health of the environment. Hands-on activities spark interest in science and health-related careers.

The My Home Planet Earth exhibit speaks to SEPA’s search for “meritorious and innovative models” that enhance student and general public health science education through its lively design, engaging interactivity and real-world connections. Children will leave the exhibit knowing how their actions can promote health and protect the environment. Included in the exhibit rental are extensive community outreach and educational programming materials including manuals, training videos, event guides and activities. As a result, My Home Planet Earth is successful in bringing families and school groups into your museum, and in taking the educational ideals of your museum out to the community.

Included in the exhibit rental:

• Over 25 hands-on activities in three component areas: Rosie’s Treehouse, Mr. Slaptail’s House and Marigold Marsh.
• School Field Trip Guide - promote school tours with this detailed teacher guide and alignment with National Science Education Standards. Complete with pre- and post-visit activities to continue environmental learning in the classroom
• Education Manual with hands-on activities and ideas, and supplemental programming concepts to enhance the exhibit experience.
• Educational Training Video- short overview of the exhibit components and messages
• Family Learning Event Guide and training video– a complete turnkey program to enrich family learning opportunities in your community.
• Marketing Materials – comprehensive and powerful marketing ideas and tools to promote the exhibit.
• Riff and Rosie Costumes
• Onsite support for installing the exhibit
• The exhibit and programs are bilingual in English and Spanish.

ssmallwood@cmhouston.org

www.cmhouston.org/planetearthrental

Call or email for availability.

MariaCampanelli@wideopenwest.com

www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Venue Confirmed:

• September 2008 - January 2009: Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA)
• May 2009 - August 2009: Science Center of Iowa (Des Moines)

Venue Open:

• September 2008 - December 2009
• January 2010 - May 2010
• June 2011 - October 2011
• October 2011 - January 201

charityc@childrensmuseum.org

www.childrensmuseum.org/traveling_exhibits/maps/index

travelingexhibits@brooklynkids.org

www.brooklynkids.org

Venue Open:

• October 2009 - January 2010
  
• February - May 2010
  
• June - September 2010
  
• October 2010 - January 2011
  
• February - May 2011
  
• June - September 2011
  
• October 2011 - January 2012
  
• February - May 2012
  
• June - September 2012
  
• October - December 2012

travelingexhibits@magichouse.org

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travelingexhibits@brooklynkids.org

www.brooklynkids.org

Discount Available Through 2009! Call or Email for More Information and Additional Availability

Venue Confirmed:

• Fall 2008: Shalom Street Museum (West Bloomfield, MI)

Venue Open:

• Spring 2009
• Dates thereafter

Past Venue:

• Summer 2007: Cape Fear Museum (Wilmington, NC)
• Spring 2008: Museum of the Southwest (Midland, TX)

emily.cutliff@cmom.com

www.cmom.com

Learn the basics of math with an incredibly popular food...pizza! Pizza: Any Way You Slice It! encourages playful, open-ended exploration by focusing on three areas: making, delivering and eating pizza. Children are instantly drawn to this exhibit that informally teaches counting, sorting, measuring, gathering, matching, patterning, sequencing, role-playing and sharing.

tsimons@ocm.org

www.ocm.org

rroth@badm.org

N/A

Venue Open:

• available immediately

$25,000 for Exhibit Purchase, $8,000 for Exhibit Plans

Pre-order before May 30, 2008 and get $1K off the purchase price of the exhibit or $500 off the exhibit design plans!

Ready Vet Go! is an exciting MOBILE and MODULAR exhibit that can transform a variety of spaces, large and small, into a “veterinary clinic” full of play-based learning opportunities. Designed to teach children about the responsibilities of pet ownership and proper pet care, Ready Vet Go! offers children and caregivers the opportunity to take on the role of veterinarian, groomer, trainer and pet owner.

jonh@cmdenver.org

www.mychildsmuseum.org\rvgsales

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Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up A Storm will immerse visitors in a complete weather experience. Because of the extensive outreach materials and support included in your rental, the exhibit is a success not only in bringing families and school groups to your museum but also in taking the educational ideals of your museum out to the community.

With more than 54 million books in print and 52 award-winning episodes including a Daytime Emmy and the prestigious Annenberg award, Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ is the most successful children’s science series in history. In response to its continued popularity, Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ television series can be seen on The Learning Channel and Discovery Kids which has increased the awareness and demand of the exhibit theme and has endeared original fans as well as captivated an entire new generation of avid science learners. Exhibit concepts were drawn from Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ television segment titled, Kicks Up A Storm, and Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ book titled, Inside a Hurricane.

With a team of meteorology experts from the American Meteorological Society and NOAA National Weather Service, content and activities for the exhibit are design to reach a target audience of children 5-12 years old, their parents and teachers. More powerful than a hurricane, more packed than a snowball, refreshing as a spring breeze, and as fun as only Ms. Frizzle can make it - Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up A Storm exhibit is one bus you can’t afford to miss!

Included in the exhibit rental:

• Over 33 hands-on activities in Three Component Areas: Frizzle’s Classroom, The Weather Observatory, and Walkerville Weather Center.
• Alignment with the National Science Education Standards and your state standards.
• Three supplemental programs for outreach and inhouse use.
• Ms. Frizzle and Liz costumes with guidelines.
• Connections to local meteorologists for workshops, demonstrations and endorsements.
• Promotional materials including Press Releases, a PSA, approved marketing pieces and ideas galore!
• Onsite staff support for installing the exhibit.

ssmallwood@cmhouston.org

www.cmhouston.org/magicschoolbusrental

Venue Open:

• October 2009 – January 2010
• February – May 2010
• June – September 2010
• October 2010 – January 2011
• February – May 2011
• June – September 2011
• October 2011 – January 2012
• February – May 2012
• June – September 2012
• October 2012 – January 2013

Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl: Home Sweet Home, a new hands-on exhibit for children ages 2 to 8, developed in collaboration with the US Forest Service, will premiere at the Betty Brinn Children's Museum in the summer of 2009 and will then embark on a national tour.

This new traveling exhibit, featuring two classic American icons, will inspire children and families to discover and care for the natural resources that sustain our world – our home sweet home. Smokey Bear, Woodsy Owl and their forest friends share important messages as they lead visitors into pretend woodland and urban settings that encourage families to spend time together outdoors and teach young children to be active explorers and stewards of the land. The exhibit’s hands-on activities and related programming underscore the importance of protecting forest ecosystems and highlight ways to reduce, reuse and recycle valuable resources.

exhibits@bbcmkids.org

Coming soon!

exhibits@bbcmkids.org

http://www.bbcmkids.org/salesrentals/superservice

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

• Winter-Spring 2009: Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)

Partners: originally developed by Montshire Museum of Science; funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Venue Confirmed:

• June - December 2009: Edventure (Columbia, SC)

Venue Open:

• June - August 2008
• October - December 2008
• February - April 2009

Past Venue:

• February - April 2007: Sony Wonderlab (Bloomington, IN)
  
• February - April 2007: Discovery Center (Rockford, IL)
  
• June - December 2007: NCAA Hall of Champions (Indianapolis, IN)
  
• June - December 2007: The Chidren's Museum (West Hartford, CT)

michaelr@discoverycentermuseum.org

discoverycentermuseum.org/exhibits/rent

Call for additional information.

Think Tank is a bilingual traveling exhibition created by The Children's Museum of Houston in collaboration with the Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative (YMEC) that encourages children to ask questions, to seek out answers, to explore how they think and to stretch their thinking. Kids will find new ways to solve old problems and exercise their creative thinking through all sorts of zany activities.

Get ready to solve perplexing puzzles, optical oddities and experience mirror magic! Think Tank promises to challenge minds both young and old with brain games of all sizes, shapes and levels of difficulty. There’s even a crew of Think Tank Guides! After meeting the Think Tank Guides (Carlos, Felicia, Rosie and Isaac), kids will jump right into solving the riddles…or they might want to put on wacky thinking caps and lounge in the thinking chairs to get those brainstorming juices flowing. Either way, inventive, “outside the box” thinking is sure to occur with a variety of specialized thinking challenges! Think Tank will make problem-solving fun through hands-on activities for all ages – we’ll even provide your thinking cap!

ssmallwood@cmhouston.org

www.cmhouston.org/thinktankrental

Venue Confirmed:

• October 2008 - January 2009: National Museum of the American Indian (Washignton, DC) and National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustave Heye Center (New York, NY)
• February 11, 2009 - May 11, 2009: Mithcell Museum of the American Indian (Evanston, IL)

• March 7, 2009 - May 17, 2009: Don Harrington Discovery Center (Amarillo, TX)
• May 30, 2009 - Sept. 6, 2009: InfoZone News Museum (Pueblo, CO)
• Sept. 18, 2010 - January 2, 2011: Lied Discovery Children's Museum (Las Vegas, NV)
• January 15, 2011 - May 1, 2011: Boston Children's Museum (MA)
• May 14, 2011 - Sept. 4, 2011: Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Arts & Sciences (CA)
• Sept. 17, 2011 - January 1, 2012: The Breman Museum of Atlanta (GA)
• January 14, 2012 - April 29, 2012: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (IN)
• Sept. 15, 2012 - December 30, 2012: Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, ON)
• January 12, 2013 - April 27, 2013: London Regional Children's Museum (ON)
• May 12, 2013 - TBD: Lied Discovery Children's Museum (Las Vegas, NV)

Venue Open:

• Sept. 19, 2009 - January 3, 2010
• January 16, 2010 - May 2, 2010
• May 15, 2010 - Sept. 5, 2010
• May 12, 2012 - Sept. 2, 2012

Past Venue:

• June 14, 2008 - December 31, 2008: Lied Discovery Children's Museums (Las Vegas, NV)

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

• Winter-Spring 2008: RMSC (Rochester, NY) & Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)
• Summer 2008: Discovery Center Museum (Rockford, IL) & The Health Adventure (Asheville, NC)

Past Venue:

• Winter-Summer 2007: Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT
• Fall 2007: Family Museum (Bettendorf, IA) and Catawba Science Center (Hickory, NC)

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Past Venue:

• EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
• ECHO (Burlington, VT)
• Children’s Museum of Maine (Portland, ME)
• Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Venue Confirmed: Itinerary at www.sciencenterexhibits.org

Venue Open: Summer 2008

Past Venue:

• Winter-Summer 2005: EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
• Fall 2005: ECHO (Burlington, VT)
• Winter-Spring 2006: ECHO (Burlington, VT)
• Summer-Fall 2006: Children’s Museum of Maine (Portland)
• Winter-Summer 2007: Dorr Museum of the College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, ME)
• Fall 2007: Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY)
• Winter-Spring 2008: Sciencenter, Ithaca NY

rburlingham@sciencenter.org

www.sciencenterexhibits.org

The Water Factory is a playful new set of water interactives designed with smaller museums in mind. Kids will love playing at these three stand-alone water tables, which are perfect for smaller spaces and budgets.

Components include:

• Triple-Barrel Table: Featuring a water flute, a vortex pool, a double spigot and an accompanying funnel and waterwheels. Cost: $11,750
  
• Raceway & Pipe Play: Includes a laminar flow table for racing boats and a series of connecting pipes for building free-form water sculptures. Cost: $14,900
  
• Center Fountain: Featuring a large center fountain and a space for open-ended play. Cost: $10,900

Water tables are designed to be filled and emptied using a garden hose. These components require only a GFCI protected power outlet. All of the water tables are built with a re-use ethic and feature recycled industrial materials where possible.

jill@kidzibits.com

http://www.kidzibits.com

Call or email for more information. (Travel limited to a 400 mile radius from Winchester, VA)

travelingexhibits@brooklynkids.org

www.brooklynkids.org

Venue Confirmed:

• Fall/Winter 2009: Miami Children's Museum (FL)
• Spring 2010: Portland Children's Museum (OR)
• Fall/Winter 2010: Children's Museum of Manhattan (New York, NY)
• Spring 2011: Boston Children's Museum (MA)
• Summer 2011: Boston Children's Museum (MA)
• Spring 2012: Strong National Museum of Play® (Rochester, NY)
• Summer 2012: Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (PA)
• Spring 2013: Port Discovery Children's Museum (Baltimore, MD)
• Spring 2014: Miami Children's Museum (FL)
• Summer 2014: Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN)

Venue Open:

• Summer 2010
• Fall/Winter 2011
• Fall/Winter 2012
• Fall/Winter 2013
• Fall/Winter 2014
• Fall Winter 2015 and further dates

www.miamichildrensmuseum.org

Venue Open:

The exhibit is available immediately for booking through October 2011.

Past Venue:

• ExplorationWorks Center (Helena, MT)

Your Healer Within® exhibit was recently developed by a medical school as a gift to the world. The exhibit is committed to increasing public awareness of making smarter choices and living the healthiest lives possible.

Using the 41-interactive stations of Your Healer Within®, the young visitor to the exhibit gains respect for the body and knowledge about how to care for it. The stations are high tech – high touch including virtual body systems, internal anatomy that relates to youngsters, heart systems, healthcare from birth to old age, computer games that teach about cancer and lifestyle choices, and comes with free health and human sciences lesson plans for parents and teachers. An outline of the 41-stations with images is available on the exhibit Web site.

The exhibit works at multiple levels and is enjoyed by toddlers, elementary and junior high students too. The health emphasis in the world has shifted from curing disease to preventing it from occurring. Your Healer Within® is an exhibition that encourages young visitors not only to see, but to touch, listen, learn and become actively engaged in understanding how their body, mind and spiritual aspects can be used to improve their own health. Your Healer Within® builds respect for these areas and imparts knowledge to our youngsters about how to live a healthier life. “Lifestyle diseases” such as obesity, cancer, diabetes and heart disease are now known to be the result from environmental factors and the way people choose to live. Families have shown a growing interest in wellness and fostering health from within. Many have stopped smoking, started exercising, and are eating healthier foods. Visitors leave the exhibit with a desire to get healthy and stay that way.

Host Your Healer Within® the exhibit that teaches about the human body, it’s fun, engaging, memorable, and parent approved. An exhibit that gives visitors the knowledge that will assist them to optimize their body’s natural self-healing abilities. Additional information, images and a video clip can be found on the exhibit Web site.

jhaxton@atsu.edu

www.healerwithin.org

Discount Available Through 2009! Call or Email for More Information and Additional Availability

Venue Confirmed:

• Summer 2008: The Children's Museum of Virginia (Portsmouth)
• Fall 2008: Tuscon Children's Museum (AZ)
• Spring 2009: Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN)

Venue Open:

• Summer 2009
• Dates thereafter

Past Venue :

• Spring 2007: Scottsdale Public Library (AZ)
• Fally 2007: Long Island Children's Museum (Garden City, CM)
• Spring 2008: The Children's Museum of Memphis (TN)

emily.cutliff@cmom.com

www.cmom.com