Best Museums & Educational Spots for Kids
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Delaware Children's Museum
Interactive play for kids of all ages. Riverfront building for toddlers to teens features interactive exhibits & a climbing structure.
DuPont Environmental Education Center of Delaware Nature Society
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Hagley Museum
Gunpowder mills & du Pont family history. Riverfront site featuring regional industrial history, including gunpowder mills & the du Pont home.
E. I. du Pont Home and Garden
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Nemours Estate
Grand DuPont family estate & gardens. DuPont family estate featuring a 102-room Louis XVI-style chateau & antiques, plus 100-acre gardens.
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science
Dinosaurs & other kid-friendly exhibits. Cozy, kid-friendly museum featuring dinosaurs, shells, a butterfly garden & interactive exhibits.
Mt. Cuba Center
Woodland gardens at a 1930s manor house. Parkland at a Colonial Revival mansion, planted with native species & open in summer for tours.
Winterthur Galleries
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Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Historic estate with arts & gardens. Period rooms in du Pont estate featuring historic decorative arts, plus 60-acre botanical gardens.
Rockwood Park & Museum
Gothic mansion with hiking trails. 19th-century Gothic manor house featuring regular guided tours & park with gardens & paved trails.
The N.C. Wyeth House & Studio
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Brandywine Museum of Art
Museum with paintings & sweeping views. Gristmill-turned-museum with paintings by Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth & others plus big windows & views.
Oasis Family Fun Center
Indoor play place with games & snacks. Children's indoor play zone includes a rock climbing wall, laser maze, trampoline basketball & more.
Iron Hill Science Center
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Iron Hill School Museum
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Delaware County Institute of Science
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C & D Canal Museum
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Penn Museum
Museum of archaeology & anthropology. Set in a building with a Chinese rotunda, this museum has abundant artifacts & antiquities.
Please Touch Museum
Family-friendly, interactive exhibits. A large environment with a focus on ages 3-12 contains hands-on attractions, plus an on-site cafe.
The Treehouse
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The Mütter Museum at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Medical history & pathology on display. Collection of over 20,000 unusual, unique anatomical specimens in a museum of medical history.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Famed art museum with classic pieces. Majestic space with famed entry staircase featuring Renaissance classics & special exhibits.
Philadelphia Museum of Art Steps
Famous "Rocky" location with city views. Iconic stairs from the movie "Rocky" providing tourists a popular photo-op & views of the city.
The Franklin Institute
Kid-friendly, interactive science museum. Lively, family-friendly science museum with many interactive exhibits & displays plus a planetarium.
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Family-friendly natural history museum. Research institution's natural history museum featuring dinosaur bones, a butterfly house & more.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
Mosaicked folk art & a sculpture garden. Funky folk art venue provides mosaicked galleries, a sculpture garden maze & educational programs.
Rodin Museum
Famous sculptures by French artist. Indoor/outdoor sculpture museum with the largest collection of Auguste Rodin's work outside Paris.
African American Museum in Philadelphia
Exploring the Black American experience. Interactive displays & exhibits preserve African-American heritage in 4 separate galleries.
Benjamin Franklin Museum
The story of the city's founding father. Artifacts & exhibits detailing the life of the historic figure, including a steel "ghost house."
Museum of the American Revolution
Multimedia exhibits on American history. Spacious & modern history museum presenting interactive exhibits on the American Revolution.
Museum of Illusions Philadelphia
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Independence Seaport Museum
Maritime exhibits & warship tours. Exhibits of artifacts & documents detailing the region's maritime history, plus tours of 2 vessels.
Battleship New Jersey
Tours of World War II battleship. Visitors can tour the decommissioned battleship's 887-ft.-long deck & sailors’ living quarters.
Fireman's Hall Museum
Restored firehouse with exhibits & more. 1902 restored firehouse displaying local firefighting tools & machines, plus photographs & prints.
Wagner Free Institute of Science
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Adventure Aquarium
Diverse aquarium with a theater & hippos. Massive aquarium with a 3D theater, plus hippos, stingrays & an underwater shark tunnel.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Antique locomotives & other artifacts. Museum of railroad artifacts from 19th-century locomotives to antique clocks, plus exhibits & talks.
Barclay Farmstead Museum
1816 Quaker living-history farm. This Quaker farmhouse, gardens & trails offer guests a view of living history from the early 1800s.
Delaware State Police Museum
History exhibits in a small space. This small museum on the history of the Delaware State Police features a helicopter & vintage car.
Delaware Agricultural Museum
Tractors, farm equipment & an 1890s town. Museum showcasing tractors & farm equipment, with an adjacent 1890s village (barn, windmill, etc.).
Glencairn Museum
Museum of Eastern & Western religions. Museum of Eastern & Western religious history housed in a medieval-style castle, with daily tours.
Woodburn: Governor's House
Guided tours of a historic Georgian home. Built circa 1798, the Governor of Delaware's Georgian home now hosts guided tours & events.
Biggs Museum of American Art
Antique furniture & decorative arts. Museum with decorative art, antiques & local pieces.
The Old State House
Majestic capitol building, built in 1791. Former state capitol building, built in 1791, featuring a geometric staircase & gilt ceiling sham.
Johnson Victrola Museum
Ode to sound-recording pioneer. Museum focused on life of Dover native E.R. Johnson, who founded Victor Talking Machine Co. (1901).
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