Main Street Children’s Museum

Learning through imagination and play!

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Artist Vernon Grant’s work provides the inspiration for the Main Street Children’s Museum. Within this wonderful setting, imagination and curiosity merge into creative play! Nursery rhymes such as Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater and Simple Simon have been transformed into life-size, three-dimensional play and learning spaces for young children from birth to six.

Little Home

Knock, knock! Come in! Take a seat and be served a cup of tea. Step inside the charming child-sized home, perfect for role-playing and developing social skills such as communicating and sharing. Play along as your child takes the role of chef or takes part in a tea party.

Sailboat

Ahoy, Matey! Put on a pirate hat and let your child’s imagination guide your adventure! Children will explore and sail the ship, pretending they are sailors or pirates on the wide-open sea. With the bell, rudder, wheel, and periscope, children can investigate objects and movement.

Garden

It’s harvest time! Practice planting, growing, and harvesting vegetables in the garden and gathering eggs from the chicken coop. The veggie toss encourages hand-eye coordination. Children can take their produce to the Little Home and use their imagination to host a feast featuring their garden bounty.

Pumpkin House

Snuggle up with your little ones and get cozy with a good book. Designed specifically with the earliest learners in mind (infants 6-15 months), this area promotes all facets of child development through the selection of books and toys. Babies understand language sooner than they can speak, and their ability to understand increases more rapidly than their ability to talk. Read out loud with silly voices or ask your child to point to an object on a page. For the safety of our youngest guests, we ask that families with older children use the area as a quiet reading nook when babies are not using it.

Air Maze

Whoosh! Send a ball or pouf through the Air Maze and see air power at work. Children can experiment by sending different items through the Maze, directing the object’s path along the way, and making predictions about where the object will fly out and whether it will float through the air or fall to the ground.

Tree House

Climb up high and slide back down! Explore this hideaway and make some art. Scale the tree house stairs and develop gross motor skills – the big muscle movements – along the way. Upstairs, drawing tablets work fingers and hands for fine motor skill development.

Birthday Parties

Party like it’s your birthday at Main Street Children’s Museum! Birthday parties are available only on Sunday afternoons.

What’s Happening

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Dec.

Silly Santas

Christmas is almost here and everyone wants to see Santa. Join us for a dress-up craft and game as we make Santa hats and beards, then have fun playing in the Museum giving pretend presents to your friends. We hope you’ll join us for some crafty Christmas fun.

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Dec.

Tiny Tunes Tuesday

Join us on our Facebook page, Culture & Heritage Museums’ Youtube channel, or TikTok on the last Tuesday of each month. Tune in to sing some silly songs with the Main Street Children’s Museum educators! December’s theme is Family.

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Jan.

Afternoon Adventures

Come join us every other Tuesday for an interactive lesson. Spin the wheel to see what the adventure will be today. With a new theme each month, there’s no shortage of fun. This month’s theme: “Culture.” Join us in the afternoons, when learning is an adventure.

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