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)

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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
  

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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.

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Venue Open: Fall 2011and beyond

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

Key areas include:

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

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www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org

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!

The popularity of television shows like COPS, Law & Order and CSI demonstrates the public's fascination with solving crimes and bringing criminals to justice. Engage your visitors in an interactive experience and unleash their inner Sherlock Holmes with Crime Lab Detectives. A burglary has occurred at the Johnson' house.

In Crime Lab Detectives your visitors are the lead detectives. They are challenged to examine the various clues, such as cloth fiber on a picket fence and tire marks, which will be useful in solving the crime. Families are encouraged to approach the exhibit as a team while students may explore it on their own or in groups. The accompanying Detective Notebook will help guide them through the process. The exhibit offers two solution tracks presenting a challenge to visitors of all ages. Your visitors will have to use scientific reasoning skills such as observation, classification and analysis while evaluating evidence, making inferences, problem solving and finally drawing conclusions.

Crime Lab Detectives cultivates the use of communication skills, teamwork, logical thinking, data organization and debate in a creative role-playing environment Forensic Science concepts such as the study of fingerprints, chromatographs, DNA, insect lifecycles, tire marks, hair analysis, thread comparison and handwriting analysis are all covered in their pursuit of the culprit.

• 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!”

Venues Open:

• Summer 2012
• Fall 2012
• Winter/Spring 2013
• Summer 2013
• Fall 2013
  

Venue Confirmed:

• June - September 2011: Springs Preserve (Las Vegas, NV)
• October 2011 - April 2012: Sawmill Museum (Clinton, IA)

Exploring Trees Inside and Out will help children discover nature through multiple perspectives and will inspire them to get outdoors, explore the wonders, and develop connections with the natural world. While visiting the exhibit children can experience a glimpse of the wonders that await them outside their own backyards and neighborhoods. These interactive exhibits provide an innovative visual-spatial experience designed for whole body, open ended participation to raise the awareness and understanding of trees.

While visiting the exhibit children will be able to:

• Explore the heart of a tree trunk
• Jump into a giant bird's nest
• Crawl through a giant tree structure
• Hear the sounds of animals that live in the forest
• Soar over the tree tops like a giant bird with the blue screen experience (Complete with costumes!)

Visitors will be given the opportunity to explore and discover many aspects of trees from the inside out, from roots to leaves, as a habitat for other living things and as a resource for people. The exhibit serves as an "experience" about trees that visitors will be able to transfer to the out-of-doors at home, at school, in the park or on a hike in the woods.

Some exhibit elements include:

• Climbing Tree -- Larger than life, the trunk invites children and adults to enter and discover that a tree is an amazing, living thing.

• Sensation stations -- Throughout the exhibit are a myriad of activity opportunities, including Scents and Sounds of Nature, and Art in Nature, that will help advance the messages about trees that permeate the exhibit and to sharpen observation skills to look at trees in new ways.

• Giant Leaf, Leaf and Slide Pile -- From the canopy, visitors will discover they can actually climb inside a giant leaf. From here, they will be able to hear, see and feel a leaf as if they were a very small bug.

• Giant Acorn -- Children can enter a larger than life and discover the baby oak with a ready packed "lunch" all ready to grow. Children can help the little acorn germinate and begin its growth to a mighty oak.

• Dancing with Trees -- Guests can wear animal costumes including a butterfly and a squirrel. The backgrounds represent several difference habitats where trees grow and animals live. Children can soar over a meandering stream or climb to the tree tops in a forest.

• Wood Works -- A construction area work station with many different pieces of wood in various sizes and shapes. Families can work together to build unique structures, bird houses or other buildings, fanciful or realistic.

Children and families will leave with a more defined understanding of the importance of trees and an elevated appreciation of trees and forests in their neighborhood and throughout the world. Most of all, the exhibit will be a dynamic springboard for visitors to take their experience outside. Leaving the exhibit, guests see the calls to action - Extend your adventure outside. Explore the wonder of trees.

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Past Venues:

• National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
  
• Public Museum of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids, MI
  
• Mayborn Museum Complex, Waco, TX
  
• Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
  

Call or email for availability... Available Spring 2011 and beyond

Living true to its mission to create extraordinary learning experiences, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has partnered with the world's foremost map expert, The National Geographic Society, and the most advanced producer of new mapping technology, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), to create a compelling international traveling exhibit, National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure. This extraordinary exhibit will provide children and families with an exciting opportunity to immerse themselves in the thrilling world of maps!

In National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure, the adventure begins in Explorers School. A new explorer has to learn the basics! Here, children and families manipulate and study amazing maps to learn how they are used as tools for adventure. They can use symbols to place landmarks on Adventure Island, create a map of their neighborhood in Make It, Map It, and learn how to find their way when North is not at the top of the map.

After completing map skill-building activities, children and families move on to Exploration areas grouped by land, sea, air and space. In Explorations on Land, kids and adults can explore the pyramids like National Geographic Explorer Zahi Hawass and play together in a life-size Congo Trek tent similar to the one that Michael Fay used in the jungles of Africa. In Explorations at Sea, children and families can pilot a canoe toward the North Star like Nainoa Thompson as well as learn how to be a shipwreck explorer like Phil Masters by layering old maps and new maps of the harbor to find the Queen Anne's Revenge. In Explorations in Air and Space, families can use sextants to find their location in the world like Amelia Earhart, predict the weather using data from the aqua satellite like NASA scientist Claire Parkinson, and map the surface of Mars like NASA scientist Nathalie Cabrol.

Throughout the exhibition, there are opportunities for kids and parents to dress like explorers, go on simulated computer game adventures, map their expedition through your gallery, and chart their past, present and future explorations.

9/30/2010

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Venue Open:

• Fall 2010 - December 2016. Rental includes Magic House technician to assist with installation and take-down.

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In POP ART!, visitors create art in the whimsical spirit of Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement . The exhibit is divided into 3 four sections: the Studio, the Factory and the Gallery, and celebrates the imagination and creativity of Warhol.

In the Studio, visitors can try a variety of art-making techniques used by pop artists, including silkscreen printing, stamping to make repeat patterns, and making objects using die-cutters like Warhol's famous Brillo Boxes. In the Factory, visitors can dress up like the characters they see in some of the Warhol paintings, play with toys like those collected by Warhol, and learn more about art and Andy Warhol through books and videos. The Gallery is a space for artwork created by visitors and the kids from local community, and examples of the icon prints by Warhol.

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Venue Confirmed:

• May – September, 2011: Crown Center (Kansas City, MO)
• September 2011 – January 2012: Minnesota Children’s Museum (St. Paul, MN)

Help Save the Rainforests!

Rainforest Adventure is a multisensory expedition that introduces children to tropical rainforests around the world, challenges facing these unique ecological wonders and ways that people can make a difference. Visitors are introduced to scientists and the ways they study rainforests. Children role-play as research assistants on a series of problem-solving adventures.

Featuring over 40 interactive components, two computer games, a distance learning kiosk and plenty of expedition props - vests, flashlights, binoculars and more!

• Climb a 9' kapok tree
• Explore a gorilla's nest
• Study plant and animal life in the different layers of the rainforest
• Learn about the web of life
• Visit a village, weave on a loom and learn about local customs and traditions

Beginning 2011. Call or email for availability.

The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh partners artist Amanda Long to create Silly Faces, a unique, interactive video installation that asks the audience to become a part of the exhibit. In this humorous piece, museum visitors instantly upload a 5-second video of themselves making a silly face into a 'photo booth' style kiosk. Then, the most recent video is added to the constantly changing grid of faces projected onto the gallery wall. Each video is bumped to the left when a new video is created, resulting in an animated and evolving mosaic.

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.

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Venue Confirmed:

• September 10, 2011 - February 4, 2012: Minnesota Children's Museum
  

Venue Open:

• Spring 2012 and after

Venue Open:

• January - April 2011
• May - August 2011
• September - December 2011
• January - April 2012
• May - August 2012
• September - December 2012
• January - April 2013
• May - August 2013
• September - December 2013

It's saving electricity with a single flip of a light switch, turning an old tablecloth into a super hero cape and repairing something instead of throwing it away. It's fighting pollution and saving the world one aluminum can at a time. It's ordinary kids making a difference. It's Super Kids Save the World!

Super Kids Save the World gives kids (and their parents) the power to go green! Designed with "green" materials and practices, this super exhibit gives kids real super hero training starting with the four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle!

The exhibit is developed by The Magic House and based on the British children's book, George Saves the World by Lunchtime commissioned by the Eden Project, an educational charity dedicated to showing the importance of taking care of our world. In this book, written by Jo Readman and illustrated by Ley Honor Roberts, George, Flora and Grandpa demonstrate that by taking simple steps, families can become eco-friendly superheroes in their own communities.

The exhibit includes more than 30 activities in seven environments:

House

• Take the Super Kid pledge to take care of our world.
• Don a super hero cape made from a recycled tablecloth.
• Dress a life sized cut-out figure to decide which children's clothes go to the Re-Use Charity Shop.
• Repair a broken toy car so it can be played with again.
• Prepare and pack a healthy lunch with re-usable containers.
  

Garden

• Pick fresh vegetables in the garden to take to the market.
  
• Turn the compost pile with a garden rake.
  
• Create bedding for the bunny cage from torn newspaper.
• Save energy by hanging clothes on a clothesline.
  

Re-Use Charity Shop

• Try on funky clothes and see the result in the many mirrors.
  
• Produce greeting cards from a wide variety of recycled materials.
• Play music on record players, radios and cassette recorders.
• Create a missing puzzle piece so the puzzle can be sold.
  
• Make new clothes for a paper doll.
  

Research Lab

• Play a virtual algae game to speed up bio-fuel production.
  
• Pump algae water through a photo-reactor.
  
• Use a microscope to identify algae from other microorganisms.
  
• Turn a hand crank generator to experience the difference between incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
  
• Operate the levers to learn about solar power.
  
• Wear a lab coat just like a real scientist.
  

Recycle Center

• Take on the role of workers in a recycle center.
  
• Wear a hard hat and safety vest.
  
• Drive a recycling truck.
  
• Sort trash onto a conveyor belt system.
  
• Play a rapid-paced computer game to see who can sort recycled materials the fastest.
  

Reduce Fuel Service Center

• Explore the red convertible Smart Car.
  
• Fill the tank with biofuel.
  
• Clean the windshield with a safe, homemade cleaning product.
  
• Climb through a tire tunnel made from tires ready to be recycled.
  

Farmers Market

• Sell fruits and vegetables in a local outdoor market.
  
• Pick apples from a special tree.
  
• Arrange baked goods, cheese and bread for sale under a colorful awning
  
• Ride a bike to generate energy to power a streetlight.
  

Wild About Plants is a botanical adventure that engages children and families in an exploration of plants in everyday life. Visitors explore the home of a fictional character Flora Wild to touch, smell, magnify, build, watch and listen to plants, uncovering what they do for people and what people can do for them.

• Decide what's for dinner by transforming raw plants into finished meals.
• Follow the story of how plants become household helps.
• Watch videos of Ms. Wild's neighbors discussing their plant-related hobbies.
• Grow like a plant in an interactive time-lapse video.
• Put on a puppet theater show and more!

Wild About Plants conveys the importance of plants to humanity. Visitors uncover their personal connections to nature and discover extraordinary plant stories in familiar objects such as food, medicine and clothing. These discoveries aim toward opening children's minds to thinking about plants as a part of everyday life.

Venue Confirmed:

• November 2009 - December 2009: Great Explorations Children's Museum (St. Petersburg, FL)
• January2010 - April 2010: Long Island Children's Museum (Garden City, NY)
• May 2010 - August 2010: Health Adventure (Asheville, NC)
• September 2010 - December 2010: Royal Alberta Museum (Edmonton, Alberta CA)
• January 2011 - April 2011: Children's Museum of Seattle (WA)
• May 2011 - August 2011: Kalamazoo Valley Museum (MI)
• September 2011 - December 2011: Kansas Children's Discovery Center (Topeka)

Venue Open: 2012 -2014, contact for availability.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz It All Started with a book – 14 to be exact! L. Frank Baum wrote a magical story, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, with original art by W. W. Denslow. In no time, it became a national sensation and a cultural icon as the first American fairytale. Now it is also an experiential traveling exhibition created by Great Explorations Childrens Museum of St. Petersburg, Florida.

This larger than life pop-up book exhibition dazzles the eyes and stimulates the mind. Visitors literally step into the pages of the story at each exhibit section designed as an open book. Science, art and history are explored through the wonder of this timeless story with hands-on activities and interactive exhibits. Visitors follow the characters on their journey along the ‘road of yellow brick’ through the Land of Oz and by the end, visitors and the story’s characters learn more about themselves. This project was funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Welcome to The World of Jan Brett, a fun and educational traveling exhibit featuring original artwork and recreated scenes that invite visitors to step into the stories of the admired children's author/illustrator. The World of Jan Brett encourages playful exploration as hands-on discovery areas and immersive, kid-friendly environments bring the stories to life. Original artwork and colorful graphics introduce cultures around the world while interactive exhibit areas and themed reading environments invite children to travel the globe and become a part of their favorite books. Children can bake up delicious fun in a child-size gingerbread playhouse or sail away into their favorite book in the Noah's ark reading ship. Engaging labels and graphics invite children to learn about the author and her story inspirations.

The exhibit is targeted towards children ages three through ten and is a great attraction for fun family outings and school field trips. The exhibition features flexible floor plans and easy installation, designed to accommodate various venue sizes and exhibition sites. Marketing support materials and exhibit programming plans are available to all loaning museums. The World of Jan Brett is presented by the Oshkosh Public Museum in partnership with Jan Brett.