Past Exhibits

2010
	Etch A Sketch®—Celebrating 50 Years Unleash your creativity in this display celebrating 50 years of the classic toy! Take your picture in front of the world's largest Etch A Sketch (created exclusively for this display), see incredible original drawings, and create your own masterpiece. It's an experience that will teach and entertain every member of the family!
	Bob the Builder™—Project: Build It Can you do it? Yes you can! Children can help their favorite builder when they visit Sunflower Valley to fix, decorate, and pretend with hands-on activities inspired from the Bob the Builder™—Project: Build It animated show. © 2009 HIT Entertainment Limited and Keith Chapman.
2009
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza.
	Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs Over 100 treasures from the tomb of the "Boy King" and other important rulers from 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history will be on exhibit at The Children's Museum. The exhibit will feature striking objects from some of the most important rulers throughout 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, from the 4th Dynasty into the Late Period (about 2600 B.C.–660 B.C.), many of which have never visited the United States.
	Tomb of Doom—46th Annual Guild Haunted House Get ready for an adventure as the 2009 Tomb of Doom sets its sights on the Quest for the Lost Mummy. Little ones will be entertained with a special interactive performances that will delight all adventure-seekers.
	LEGO Castle Adventure Hear ye! Hear ye! Come to our museum to help design a new castle for the king and queen using one of the greatest building materials of all time—LEGO® bricks! Their majesties have issued a royal proclamation requesting the presence of all aspiring master builders, designers and architects in LEGO Castle Adventure.
	Comic Book Heroes: Featuring the Max Simon Comic Book Collection Find out about comic books, the artists who create them and the amazing characters they feature! Including selections from the Max Simon Comic Book Collection, an impressive collection of nearly 20,000 comics. Comic Book Heroes introduces families to the vast world of comic books and inspires them to read, collect and create!
2008
	Animation: featuring Cartoon Network Animation, created and produced by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) featuring Cartoon Network, explores animation from concept to finished product — from storyboarding, character design and drawing techniques, to movement, timing, filming and sound.
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza.
	Eerie Express—45th Annual Guild Haunted House Meet Francis, the Friendly Witch at the Depot of Doom. Ride the Eerie Express and and experience some of Indiana's more haunting destinations for Friendly and Frightening fun.
	Curious George: Let's Get Curious! The insatiable curiosity of Curious George™—the little monkey who has captured the imagination and hearts of millions of children and adults for 67 years—comes to life in a new exhibit at The Children’s Museum. The exhibit encourages young children’s natural curiosity as they explore science, math and engineering through hands-on, interactive play.
	Robots + Us How different would your life be if robots did all the work? Test robots of all shapes and sizes, find out how they "learn," see them react to changes in their environment and discover how some amazing artificial devices have changed people's lives.
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza.
2007
	Monster Manor—44th Annual Guild Haunted House Visit Ghostly Grand Hotel—where you check-in, but you may not check-out! Take a friendly lights-on tour, or dare to be scared during frightening hours. Something new lurks around every corner at The Children’s Museum Guild’s 44th Annual Haunted House!
	Fiori dei Bambini: A Chihuly Garden of Glass for Children Fiori dei Bambini: A Chihuly Garden of Glass for Children, created by renowned artist Dale Chihuly brings you face-to-face with some of Chihuly’s most dazzling glass creations.
	Spymaker: My Family to Spy Family Step inside a surveillance van and see some amazing gadgets. Your family will be amazed by tiny cameras planted in books and buttons or by listening devices planted in pens. Learn how spies and others are using these technologies all over the world.
	Maze-A-Palooza Explore the world of optical illusions and put your eyes and mind to the test. As you make your way through nine mazes, you will challenge yourself as you use problem solving skills to conquer perplexing puzzles like multiple reflections and distortion of distance, depth and perspective.
	Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog Inspired by Scholastic media's top-rated television show "Clifford The Big Red Dog" on PBS KIDS®, this exhibit offers many "paws-on" adventures that reinforce "Clifford's Big Ideas"—ten simple life lessons designed to help young children navigate their world: Share, Play Fair, Have Respect, Work Together, Be Responsible, Be Truthful, Be Kind, Believe in Yourself, Be a Good Friend and Help Others.
	National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure National Geographic MAPS: Tools for Adventure provides visitors with an exciting opportunity to immerse themselves in the thrilling world of maps! Visitors are introduced to well-known land, sea, air and space explorers such as Zahi Hawass, Phil Masters, Amelia Earhart and Nainoa Thompson. Through artifacts and interactive experiences relating to the work of each explorer, children and adults can learn how maps are tools for adventure.
2006
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza.
	Monster Manor—43rd Annual Guild Haunted House Visit Monster Manor — a house in the countryside like no other! Take a friendly lights-on tour, or dare to be scared during frightening hours. Something new lurks around every corner at The Children’s Museum Guild’s 43rd Annual Haunted House!
	Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? Step onto Sesame Street and take a stroll with your favorite characters. Sesame Street will lead visitors of all ages through three adventurous decades of the revolutionary children’s television series. Children are invited to explore concepts about letters, numbers, words and diversity issues; while adults can explore how the innovative program emerged and developed over the years.
	Bob the Builder™ —Project: Build It Join Bob the Builder and his can-do crew to help get the job done! The Bob the Builder™ - Project: Build It Traveling Museum Exhibit invites kids and parents to spend time in “Sunflower Valley” with Bob, Wendy and the rest of the can-do crew.
	Every Picture Tells a Story: Teaching Tolerance Through Children’s Picture Books Have you ever wanted to go on an adventure just like the characters in your favorite book? Now you can participate in activities from classic children’s books including “Enemy Pie,” “It’s Okay to be Different,” “Charlotte’s Web” and “The Cat in the Hat.”
	Scholastic's The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up A Storm! Fasten your seatbelts and join Ms. Frizzle and her class at The Magic School Bus™ Kicks Up a Storm!
2005
	Rockwell's America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell’s art is as much a slice of Americana as baseball and apple pie. For more than 60 years, Rockwell painted ordinary Americans doing ordinary things.
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza.
	Camp Creepy—42nd Annual Guild Haunted House Encounter some spooky wild life on the trail of Camp Creepy, the 42nd Annual Haunted House.
	Arthur’s World Immerse yourself in Arthur’s World as imaginative environments bring to life the characters and settings of the popular books and PBS series.
	Puppets: Give Us a Hand Mingle with more than 200 puppets from around the globe, including Kermit the Frog. Discover the art of puppetry and the stories that puppets tell. Create a puppet play, make a puppet and put on your own show. Let your creativity flow in this fun and captivating exhibit!
	Five Friends From Japan Five Friends From Japan introduces visitors to contemporary Japanese culture through the real stories of five children living in Japan today.
	Discovering Chimpanzees: The Remarkable World of Jane Goodall Experience an array of interactive exhibits about the famous researcher and her study of wild chimpanzees in Africa’s Gombe National Park.
2004
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza."
	Moneyville Buy! Sell! Trade! Enter the vibrant city of Moneyville! Play the stock market, run a bank and see what $1 million looks like.
	Ghost Town—41st Annual Guild Haunted House Help us celebrate our 41st annual Haunted House. Join in the festivities including games, crafts and, of course, a visit to the Haunted House!
	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” has been a fixture in homes with young children for more than 30 years. The philosophy and activities that make the television program so beloved are an integral part of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood — A Hands-On Exhibit. Children learn to respect themselves and others, develop creativity, learn about their neighborhoods and to adjust to new chapters of life such as new siblings, child care, visits to the doctor and loss.
	Invention at Play An exhibit with inventiveness in mind and playfulness at heart.
	Peter Rabbits's Garden takes us into the life of Beatrix Potter. Her love for nature and children would eventually turn little sketches into "little stories" that we’ve all grown to love. The exhibit contains everything from Potter’s artwork to a story-time tree where children and adults are invited to enjoy Potter’s original stories!
	Go Figure! introduces early math concepts through familiar children’s books and spurs the imagination. Each environment in the exhibit is filled with hands-on activities for children. Go Figure! offers a learning environment for parents and children to read and interact together.
2003
	Raise the Roof—Every Building Has a Story If walls could talk, what would they say? Would they reveal secrets and surprises? What kinds of extraordinary engineering feats would they bring to light? If walls could talk, they might say, "Humans spend 90 percent of their lives within buildings. It's time they get to know us."
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza."
	Ghostly Gala—40th Annual Guild Haunted House Help us celebrate our 40th annual Haunted House. Join in the festivities including games, crafts and, of course, a visit to the Haunted House!
	Titanic Science is an extraordinary new interactive exhibit that immerses visitors in one of the most epic events of the 20th century. Discover how an interdisciplinary mix of science and technology is helping to unravel why the sinking of Titanic was such a tragedy. See Titanic up close, glimpse the fate of the great vessel, touch a simulated iceberg, walk through a rustical, navigate an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle), using a specially designed software program try to steer Titanic past the iceberg! View actual artifacts recovered from the ocean floor and learn about the conservation process.
	Good Grief! The magical world of the PEANUTS Gang comes to life as kids scamper through the Pumpkin Patch, navigate the WWI Flying Ace's plane and fly kites to avoid the kite-eating tree. Both children and adults will feel like part of the PEANUTS family, as they experience Charlie Brown's baseball frustrations, offer bossy advice in Lucy's Psychiatry Booth and play Schroeder's piano. Through creative exhibit interactives, children ages 2-12 and their families get to know the PEANUTS Gang-and themselves-in a whole new way.
	Andy Warhol—Myth Series and Studio "Go Pop" in this traveling exhibit from The Pittsburgh Children's Museum. Featuring six Warhol prints and a working printmaking studio, this exhibit has been enhanced with several objects from TCM's own collection reflecting the heyday of the Pop Art Movement.
	Amazing Music Studio Music is part of the fabric of life, both an art and a science. Music is something we all participate in, either as producers, performers or listeners. Amazing Music Studio explores this universal, mysterious subject from different angles—its physics, its technology, its history, its artists and ourselves, the audience.
	On Stage and Behind the Scenes—An Adventure in Theatre Theatre is a global art form used to communicate ideas, entertain, teach life lessons and most of all tell wonderful stories. Children have always been particularly fascinated by the behind the scenes elements of theater. Onstage and Behind the Scenes provides an opportunity to explore the different elements needed to produce a show and how those elements all come together.
2002
	Star Wars: Art of the Starfighter Star Wars: Art of the Starfighter was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Smithsonian Affiliations in conjunction with Lucasfilm Ltd.
	Circus Summer Have you ever wanted to fly on a trapeze with the greatest of ease? Is there a daredevil in your family who thinks she or he can walk the line? Come and join the circus in our exciting new summer exhibits to find out what circus life is really all about!
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza."
	Phantom Theatre—39th Annual Guild Haunted House The most enduring symbol of the Phantom is his mask, but masks aren't only worn by monsters. People in all parts of the world make and wear masks for a variety of reasons. Masks can be worn for protection, disguise or ceremony.
	BUSYTOWN™ From conveyor belts and cranes, to a tunnel and a telephone booth, this exhibit encourgages busy hands and racing minds to explore The Busy World of Richard Scarry!
2001
	Bones: An Exhibit Inside You The Children's Museum of Indianapolis presents "BONES: An Exhibit Inside You," an exhibition of exciting and interactive activities to teach all about bones. It examines bone biology, keeping bones healthy, and how bones are a part of cultures all over the world. Both adults and children are shown how they can take an active role in keeping their bones healthy by eating a calcium-rich diet and exercising.
	World Wide Birthday Party A Virtual Exhibit
	Jolly Days Winter Wonderland Learn about other holidays and Christmas in times past throughout the museum during this Jolly Days Winter Wonderland extravaganza."
	Terrifying Tales—38th Annual Guild Haunted House Join us for our 39th annual Haunted House. Join in the festivities including games, crafts and, of course, a visit to the Haunted House!
2000
	Kinetosaurs: Putting Some Teeth into Art and Science Have you ever seen a dinosaur dance, roll its head around or swish its tail? Artist John Payne uses science and art to create his dinosaur sculptures, and to make them move.

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