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Best Children'due south Museum (2022)

Best Children's Museum? Readers select The DoSeum.

These are the ten all-time children's museums, as voted past our readers.

It can be a challenge to keep kids entertained while traveling, specially on days when the weather doesn't cooperate. Luckily these ten museums, called equally the best for families in North America, offer interactive and engaging experiences for kids and adults alike.

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  The DoSeum
  San Antonio, TX

  Opened in 2015 in San Antonio, The DoSeum is much more than than a children'southward museum – it's a place where "minds are always at play." Each guest is inspired to cultivate their curiosity and explore the joy of learning through STEM, the arts, and literacy. Exhibits, programs, camps, classes, and field trips are offered for all ages. DIY activities to exercise at dwelling, such as fairy garden terrariums and coffee ground fossils, encourage learning after leaving the museum.
  Photograph courtesy of A family playing with the interactive displays in "Puppet Parade"

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  Metropolis Museum
  St. Louis

  Housed in the 600,000-foursquare-pes former warehouse of the International Shoe Visitor, the St. Louis Urban center Museum has a scrap of everything – the globe's largest jungle gym, a ten-story screw slide and a rooftop garden with stellar views of the urban center.
  Photo courtesy of Zakary Littrell

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  The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
  Indianapolis

  A favorite Indy attraction, the Children'southward Museum of Indianapolis is the largest museum of its kind in the earth, encompassing 29 acres of fun-filled exhibits. Kids tin snap a selfie with a T-rex, explore outer space through the lens of NASA's Project Mercury, travel overseas without a passport in Take Me There: Hellenic republic, and play one of 12 sports outdoors in a fabled interactive sports park with health in mind.
  Photo courtesy of The Children's Museum of indianapolis

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  The Magic House
  St. Louis

  The Magic Firm, St. Louis's children's museum, helps visiting kids explore their curiosity, raise their creativity and develop their problem solving skills. Housed within a Victorian mansion, the museum's lineup of interactive exhibits include Children'south Village, STEAM Middle, Fine art Studio, Math Path, Bubble Room, Kids Construction Zone and the Waterfall Patio.
  Photograph courtesy of The Magic House

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  The Strong Museum
  Rochester, North.Y.

  The Strong Museum, a highly interactive museum in Rochester, houses the earth's largest drove of artifacts related to play, a collection that can be explored in the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the National Toy Hall of Fame and the Globe Video Game Hall of Fame. Child favorites include the Pinball Playfields, Wegmans Super Kids Market place, Reading Adventureland and Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden.
  Photo courtesy of The Strong Museum

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  Kohl Children's Museum
  Chicago

  With a special emphasis on early childhood learning, the Kohl Children's Museum simply exterior Chicago features 17 interactive exhibits. Kids get creative at Adventures in Fine art, practice social skills at Cooperation Station, brand a splash at Water Works and connect with nature in the outdoor Habitat Park. The museum is designed for children under eight years of historic period.
  Photo courtesy of Kohl Children's Museum

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  Children'southward Museum of Phoenix
  Phoenix

  Designed for children from birth to x years old, the Children's Museum of Phoenix has more than 48,000 square anxiety of exhibit space spread across 3 floors of the historic Monroe School edifice. Kids become hands on with 300 experiences, including an art studio, larger-than-life building blocks, fort building area, reading nook and a noodle woods.
  Photo courtesy of Sandra Tenuto Photography

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  Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
  Pittsburgh

  Inside the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, visitors can explore numerous hands-on, interactive exhibit areas meant to spark curiosity. The Attic explores illusions, perception and phenomena; the Garage is the place to explore things that drive, roll and fly; the Studio allows kids to express their creativity through diverse art forms and at the Children'southward Museum's new MuseumLab, kids 10 and older can have cutting edge experiences in art, engineering and making.
  Photo courtesy of Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

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  Delight Touch Museum
  Philadelphia

  Philadelphia's Delight Touch Museum offers ii floors of exhibits that kids are actively encouraged to touch. Little ones can safely play in a structure zone or go down the rabbit hole to a Wonderland-inspired play station. A historic and recently refurbished carousel is a great way to end a visit on a loftier note. The museum also hosts a diverseness of family unit-friendly programs, so there's always something new to explore.
  Photo courtesy of J. Fusco for VISIT PHILADELPHIA

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  Children'due south Museum of Houston
  Houston

  Aimed at kids under the age of 12, the Children's Museum of Houston features over a dozen interactive galleries where kids tin learn about the civilization and traditions of the Gullah, construct their ain inventions in the Maker Annex, learn nigh the surround at EcoStation, test their bodies in PowerPlay or explore a pint-sized city known as Kidtropolis. Every Thursday evening, the museum hosts a Complimentary Family Nighttime where admission is gratis.
  Photograph courtesy of Children's Museum of Houston

The top 10 winners in the category All-time Children's Museum are as follows:

1. The DoSeum - San Antonio, TX
2. Metropolis Museum - St. Louis, MO
3. The Children'southward Museum of Indianapolis - Indianapolis, IND
4. The Magic House - St. Louis, MO
5. The Potent Museum - Rochester, NY
6. Kohl Children'southward Museum - Chicago, IL
7. Children's Museum of Phoenix - Phoenix, AZ
8. Children's Museum of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
9. Please Touch Museum - Philadelphia, PA
10. Children's Museum of Houston - Houston, TX

A panel of experts partnered with 10Best editors to pick the initial nominees, and the summit x winners were adamant past popular vote.

Congratulations to all these winning children's museums!

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