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

www.bbcmkids.org/exhibits/salesrentals/mrpotatohead

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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/

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!

Call or email for availability.

Venue Open: Summer 2012 and beyond

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.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/curious-george/

Call or email for availability.

Venue Open: Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2014 and beyond

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.

travelingexhibits@mcm.org

http://www.mcm.org/about-the-museum/exhibit-rentals/curious-george/

• The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis - Indianapolis, IN - Spring – Summer 2011
• COSI - Columbus, Ohio - Fall 2011
• Discovery Science Center – Santa Ana, CA- Spring 2012
• McWane Science Center – Birmingham, AL – Summer 2012
• Strong Museum of Play – Rochester, NY – Winter 2012
• Minnesota Children’s Museum – St. Paul, MN – Spring – Summer 2013

Children and families are invited to the enchanting world of Dora the Explorer, her animal-rescuing cousin Diego, and their friends Boots and Baby Jaguar! Here they can explore Isa’s Flowery Garden, help Tico gather nuts, join the Pirate Piggies’ crew as they set sail, and search for baby animals in the Rainforest Maze.

In Dora and Diego—Let’s Explore!, children and families will: Sail the high seas in the Pirate Piggies’ Ship—Climb aboard the pirate ship in search of treasure. Help Dora and Boots get the crew ready to sail the seas by following the Pirate Piggy Rules: dress like a pirate, sing a pirate song, always be polite, and share. Travel through space in the Rocket Ship—Dora’s space creature friends need help to find their way back to the Purple Planet. Operate the rocket ship control panel to navigate through the Milky Way, look out the porthole to see planets fly by, and connect stars to form a constellation. Once you arrive, explore the Purple Planet in your space suit! Explore the Rainforest Maze—Run, jump, crawl, and swing through the Rainforest Maze in search of baby animals hidden inside. Care for baby animals in the Animal Rescue Center—Learn how to care for red-eyed tree frogs, spider monkeys, jaguars, and crocodiles by placing them in Scan the Scanner. Then help Diego and Alicia examine, bandage, bathe, and feed the baby animals. Collect nuts in the Nutty Forest—Help Tico gather nuts to fuel his car before Swiper swipes them. If you see Swiper, tell him, “Swiper, no swiping!” Tend Isa’s Garden—Help Isa care for her garden by planting and watering flowers and sorting flowers by their shapes. Make sure to stop and smell the posies.

Preschoolers will role-play, solve problems, practice sharing and caring behaviors, and learn Spanish words. Everyone will celebrate a successful day–”We did it! ¡Lo hicimos!”

Venue Open:

• September 2011 and after

Call or email for availability.

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www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

Venue Confirmed:

• January 16, 2010 - May 16, 2010: Children's Museum of Memphis (TN)
  
• May 29, 2010 - September 6, 2010: Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (CA)
• September 18, 2010 - January 1, 2011: Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (TX)
• January 29, 2011- May 22, 2011: Children's Museum of Houston (TX)
  

Venue Open:

• Fall 2011, Summer 2012 and after

Past Venue:

• February 9, 2008 - September 14, 2008: Minnesota Children's Museum (St. Paul, MN)
  
• September 27, 2008 - January 19, 2009: Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, CA)
• February 7, 2009 - May 10, 2009: The Children's Museum, Boston (MA)
  
• May 23, 2009 - September 13, 2009: Brooklyn Children's Museum (NY)
• September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010: Canadian Children's Museum (Gatineau, QC)

Venue Confirmed:

• October 2010 - January 2011: Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, CA)
  
• February - May 2011: Betty Brinn Children's Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
  
• February - April 2012: Virginia Living Museum (Newport News)
  
• June - September 2012: High Desert Museum (Bend, OR)
  
  

Venue Open:

• June - September 2011
  
• October 2011 - January 2012
  
• October 2012 - January 2013
  

Past Venue:

• June - October 2009: Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, CA)
• October 2009 - January 2010: Discovery Center at Murfree Spring (Murfreesboro, TN)
• February - May 2010: Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (Jackson, MS)
• June - September 2010: Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago (Glenview, IL

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

www.bbcmkids.org/salesrentals/smokeybear

Venue Open:

• 2011-2013, contact for availability

Past Venue:

• June 8, 2007-November 25, 2007: Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL)
• December 4, 2007-January 4, 2008: Aerospace Education Center (Little Rock, AR)
• January 11, 2008-March 2, 2008: Buffalo Museum of Science (Buffalo, NY)
• March 8, 2008-May 26, 2008: COSI (Columbus, OH)
• June 7, 2008-June 21, 2009: EcoTarium (Worcester, MA)
• June 22, 2009-August 30, 2009: Exhibit Refurbishment
• September 12, 2009-August 29, 2010: COSI (Columbus, OH)
• September 18, 2010-January 9, 2011: Boonshoft Museum of Discovery (Dayton, OH)

The Zula Patrol, those colorful and energetic Galactic fact gatherers have been planet hopping across the Solar System on their never ending quest for knowledge. They've finally landed on Earth to study the weather on our home planet. We can experiment right along with them and learn what weather is, how it works, what affects it, and how it affects us.

This compact exhibition is anchored by five freestanding installations that combine to create the colorful cartoon world of Zula. Captain Bula, Professor Multo, Space Pilot Zeeter, flying wonders Wizzy and Wigg, and Space Pet Gorga invite you to apply the scientific method. Learn all about clouds, precipitation, wind, temperature, and other weather phenomenon.

The exhibit addresses the developmental needs of children by increasing scientific knowledge and habits of mind, addressing National Science Education Standards meeting National Association for the Education of Young Children Curriculum Guidelines, providing different types of play opportunities, and providing opportunities for children to exercise Multiple Intelligences.

The Zula Patrol is a multifaceted brand of learning tools including an animated television series, outreach program, classroom activities, permanent and traveling museum exhibitions, and digital dome theater show aimed to provide early science and reading literacy for children in preschool through 2nd grade.