Please Touch Museum

Why go

Please Touch Museum earns time because it offers a family-centered museum where the historic architecture adds scale to active exhibits. Its central thread is hands-on play environments inside Memorial Hall, a surviving Centennial Exposition building. The restored Woodside Park Dentzel Carousel remains a strong visual and physical anchor. Memorial Hall's vast dome and galleries give children's exhibits an unusually monumental setting.

What to look for

• The restored Woodside Park Dentzel Carousel remains a strong visual and physical anchor.
• Memorial Hall's vast dome and galleries give children's exhibits an unusually monumental setting.

The full story

Please Touch Museum is best understood through hands-on play environments inside Memorial Hall, a surviving Centennial Exposition building. The Please Touch Museum is a children's museum located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The museum focuses on teaching children through interactive exhibits and special events, mostly aimed at children seven years old and younger. The museum originally opened at the Academy of Natural Sciences on October 2, 1976, in a 2,200-square-foot space, and moved to another location on nearby Cherry Street two years later. In 1983, the museum moved to 21st Street near the Franklin Institute. On February 14, 2005, the museum received an 80-year lease for Memorial Hall (in Fairmount Park), the last major building left from the 1876 Centennial Exposition. This came after plans to relocate the museum to a location at Penn's Landing fell through. Renovations at Memorial Hall began on December 15, 2005, and the museum closed its 21st Street location on September 1, 2008. On October 18, 2008, the museum opened at its current location with a larger facility and more exhibits. General Please Touch Museum The Please Touch Museum is a children's museum located in the Centennial District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The museum focuses on teaching children through interactive exhibits and special events, mostly aimed at children seven years old and younger.

Useful to know

• Choose two priority exhibit zones before children tire.
• Check carousel tickets and special-program times separately from general admission.

Your next visit

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