Best Museums & Educational Spots for Kids
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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.
Battleship New Jersey
Tours of World War II battleship. Visitors can tour the decommissioned battleship's 887-ft.-long deck & sailors’ living quarters.
Independence Seaport Museum
Maritime exhibits & warship tours. Exhibits of artifacts & documents detailing the region's maritime history, plus tours of 2 vessels.
Fireman's Hall Museum
Restored firehouse with exhibits & more. 1902 restored firehouse displaying local firefighting tools & machines, plus photographs & prints.
Museum of the American Revolution
Multimedia exhibits on American history. Spacious & modern history museum presenting interactive exhibits on the American Revolution.
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 Illusions Philadelphia
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African American Museum in Philadelphia
Exploring the Black American experience. Interactive displays & exhibits preserve African-American heritage in 4 separate galleries.
Philadelphia's Magic Gardens
Mosaicked folk art & a sculpture garden. Funky folk art venue provides mosaicked galleries, a sculpture garden maze & educational programs.
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.
The Franklin Institute
Kid-friendly, interactive science museum. Lively, family-friendly science museum with many interactive exhibits & displays plus a planetarium.
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.
Rodin Museum
Famous sculptures by French artist. Indoor/outdoor sculpture museum with the largest collection of Auguste Rodin's work outside Paris.
Wagner Free Institute of Science
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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.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Famed art museum with classic pieces. Majestic space with famed entry staircase featuring Renaissance classics & special exhibits.
Penn Museum
Museum of archaeology & anthropology. Set in a building with a Chinese rotunda, this museum has abundant artifacts & antiquities.
The Treehouse
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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.
Barclay Farmstead Museum
1816 Quaker living-history farm. This Quaker farmhouse, gardens & trails offer guests a view of living history from the early 1800s.
Glencairn Museum
Museum of Eastern & Western religions. Museum of Eastern & Western religious history housed in a medieval-style castle, with daily tours.
Delaware County Institute of Science
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Friends of Bolton Mansion
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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.
Roebling Museum
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Rockwood Park & Museum
Gothic mansion with hiking trails. 19th-century Gothic manor house featuring regular guided tours & park with gardens & paved trails.
Garden of Reflection
Serene memorial set in a symbolic garden. A thoughtful 9/11 memorial using trees, water & a spiraling path to inspire quiet contemplation.
Mercer Museum
Early American domestic tools & vehicles. Museum offering a look at early American tools, vehicles & domestic equipment used in everyday life.
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.
Nemours Estate
Grand DuPont family estate & gardens. DuPont family estate featuring a 102-room Louis XVI-style chateau & antiques, plus 100-acre gardens.
Planetarium At NJ State Museum
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New Jersey State Museum
Planetarium, art & historic exhibits. Museum with a planetarium & areas dedicated to fine art, cultural & natural history & archeology.
New Jersey State Police Museum
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Old Barracks Museum
Revolutionary War-era British barracks. Set in a 1758 British military building, this museum offers exhibits of Colonial American history.
Trenton City Museum/ Ellarslie Museum
Fine art exhibits & historical artifacts. Italianate villa museum since 1978 with rotating art exhibits, plus industrial & cultural artifacts.
E. I. du Pont Home and Garden
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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.
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Historic estate with arts & gardens. Period rooms in du Pont estate featuring historic decorative arts, plus 60-acre botanical gardens.
Winterthur Galleries
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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.
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science
Dinosaurs & other kid-friendly exhibits. Cozy, kid-friendly museum featuring dinosaurs, shells, a butterfly garden & interactive exhibits.
DuPont Environmental Education Center of Delaware Nature Society
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Grounds For Sculpture
Sculpture park with outdoor exhibitions. Vast park for contemporary sculpture, with 2 museums hosting seasonal exhibits, plus an arboretum.
Howell Living History Farm
Living agriculture museum & active farm. Museum devoted to 250 years of area farm life, with costumed staff & active farming operations.
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.
The Bucks County Children's Museum - Advance Ticketing Recommended
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NJ Fire Museum
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Morven Museum & Garden
Portraits & artifacts in an old mansion. This former Governor's mansion provides a glimpse of local history through art exhibitions & events.
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