Please Touch Museum

Since 1976, Please Touch Museum has been the Children's Museum of Philadelphia. More than three decades and in excess of two million guests later, Please Touch Museum has developed into one of the country's head youngsters' galleries by getting to be specialists in play.The mission of the gallery is to improve the lives of kids by making learning openings through play, establishing the framework for a lifetime of hands-on learning and social awareness.

Located in notable Memorial Hall — a National Historic Landmark worked in 1876 for the Centennial Exhibition praising the nation's 100th birthday celebration — Please Touch Museum expects to unite the past, present and future through six intuitive display zones crosswise over 157,000 square feet, including four territories particularly intended for kids and younger.

Kids and their adults will likewise savor the experience of riding the carefully reestablished 1908 Woodside Park Dentzel Carousel, initially inherent Philadelphia and after over 40 years away, came back to the main residence in its own 9,000 square-foot glass structure on the east side of Memorial Hall.