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

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.

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Venue Open: Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013 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/

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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/

Past Venues:

• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
  
• Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
  
• Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI
  
• Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
  
• Mayborn Museum, Waco, TX
  

Call or email for availability... Available through Fall 2013

Builders of all ages are invited to explore, build and play in LEGO® Castle Adventure! In this exhibit kids and their families are transported to a LEGO kingdom where they too can become master castle builders, using one of the greatest building materials of all time - LEGO bricks.

• Build, Build, Build! - Builders of all ages and skill levels can construct castles, learn about real-world castles and their building secrets, and plan their ideal castle's defenses. The Builders Guild is divided into three age-appropriate build areas.
  
  • Apprentice Builders (toddlers) can build using soft foam LEGO bricks.
    
  • Journeyman Builders (ages 3-6) build with LEGO Duplo bricks.
    
  • Master Builders (ages 7 and up) can create designs with brick paper and then build using classic LEGO bricks.
    
• Explore a Giant Castle - Explore the inside of the royal castle full of LEGO brick decorations, the king and queen's thrones, and secret passageways.
  
• Aim a Catapult - Virtually build a fortress wall on screen and test its strength with a LEGO catapult.
  
• Defend the Castle Walls - Climb into a lookout tower topped with a mini figure guard and slide back down to the ground or stroll along the castle's wheelchair accessible battlement wall.
  
• See a LEGO dragon - In the dragon's cave, children and adults can create and share their own fantastical stories that feature castles as the setting.
  
• Design and Build Topiaries - Using a colorful array of green bricks, children can plan and create their own outdoor courtyard landscapes. Large LEGO brick topiary models are on display to inspire young builders.

LEMURtron is a major interactive installation from LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots. The LEMURtron installation is comprised of approximately 20 robotic musical instruments arrayed about an exhibit space; a floor-projected video interface in the center of the space; and a motion tracking system which enables participants to control and interact with the musical robots. The musical robots are mechanical, acoustic musical instruments controlled by and played from computer. They range in complexity from simple percussion instruments to a robotic slide guitar. The video projection consists of a rotating set of interactive scenarios. Each scenario enables users to interact with the musical robots in a different way. Users move within the floor screen, interacting with objects in the video projection. User movements are tracked by video camera, allowing a computer to sense their motion and move the video objects. In turn, the motion of the video objects is translated into sound and music from the robots. LEMURtron is an ever-changing environment, keeping children and adults engaged by rotating through five or more different scenarios and types of interaction.

Example scenarios include

• Billiard Balls: Users kick virtual billiard balls, causing them to roll and collide. Collisions between balls trigger corresponding percussion robots.
  
• Game Spinner: Users set a spinning arrow into motion, causing motor-driven robots to sound by spinning, shaking and oscillating.
  
• Melody Runner: A music generating machine where users flip video tiles in a grid, creating musical beats and melodies on the robots.

Participants may also view the robots up close, seeing and learning how robotic mechanisms are used to create sound. LEMURtron is designed to run for months at a time, requiring minimal intervention and maintenance by museum staff. LEMUR monitors installations remotely via the Internet and streaming video cameras. LEMURtron is available as a traveling rental exhibit. Also, permanent, site-specific versions of LEMURtron can be commissioned. LEMUR also offers additional programming in conjunction with an installation, such as lectures for all ages on LEMUR's instruments and technology, and concerts featuring renown musicians playing live with LEMUR's robots. Contact Christopher Davis for more information, references, technical specifications and with any other questions you may have.
We hope to bring the LEMURtron installation to your museum in the near future!

About Our Group: LEMUR is a group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical instruments and installations. Founded in 2000, we create unique, exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology. LEMUR's instruments are designed to look very different from traditional instruments and animatronics and include GuitarBots, ModBots (percussion robots), XyloBots and many others.

We incorporate our musical robots into high-tech interactive installations which engage, entertain and educate children and adults alike. Our work has enjoyed long term runs at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, the National Gallery of Art, the Schenectady Museum, Snug Harbor and the Beall Center, among other institutions.

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SPIN is an exciting exhibit that explores the fun - and science - of objects that rotate. Using interactive exhibits and real-life examples, visitors can explore how objects spin, why things spin at different speeds, and how we use spinning objects in our daily lives.

Guests of all ages will be fascinated to learn the science behind spinning toys, sports, transportation, space travel, entertainment - and even the Universe.

Venue Confirmed:

• October 2010 - January 2011: Portland Children's Museum (OR)
  
• June - September 2011: Port Discovery Children's Museum (Baltimore, MD)
  
• February - May 2012: Betty Brinn Children's Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
  
• May - September 2013: Creative Discovery Museum (Chattanooga, TN)
  
  

Venue Open:

• October 2011 - January 2012
  
• June - September 2012
  
• September 2012 - January 2013
  
• January - May 2013
  
• October 2013 - January 2014

Past Venues:

• November 2009 - January 2010: Betty Brinn Children's Museum (Milwaukee, WI)
  
• February - May 2010: Children's Museum, Seattle (WA)
  
• June - September 2010: Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, CA

TINKERTOY®: Build Your Imagination™ is a new educational exhibit that combines the open-ended and inventive play qualities of the timeless TINKERTOY® construction set with GE's innovative technologies that enrich our lives and our global community. Giant TINKERTOY® building pieces create a fantastic framework for all of the exhibit's activities, and real TINKERTOY® construction sets take center stage in an awe-inspiring collection of TINKERTOY® pieces featured in a creative play area. A special welcome gallery and nine unique activity stations invite children and families to explore contemporary topics like renewable energy and clean water technology, to experiment with ideas and create their own inventions, and to work as collaborators in the exhibit's hands-on environment. Each activity promotes important developmental skills and reflects the high standards of our exhibit partners.

Target Audience: Educational activities are designed for children ages 4 - 10

Rental Includes:

• Comprehensive marketing and publicity materials
  
• An Education Guide featuring lesson plans to enhance family and group visits
  
• A detailed installation manual
  
• Bilingual signage (English/Spanish) that helps adults understand how children learn through play