Overlooking the Long Island Sound and the Playland Boardwalk, our own Toddler Beach is a colorful and inviting exhibit that provides young children with the guidance of their caregivers the opportunity to practice and develop their gross motor skills through movement and climbing Sponsored by Curry Automotive. 

Photo Credit: Lynda Shenkman Curtis

An exciting new development in the museum field and early childhood education, makerspaces give children a place to create and design. Our MakerSpace features activities in art, design, technology, and science. Children will have an opportunity to create new projects every time they visit. Click HERE for a MakerSpace schedule.

An interactive experience comprised of thousands of small, uniform building planks yielding endless creation possibilities. Incorporating elements of art and architecture, the exhibit challenges children, fuels creativity, and allows for collaborative interaction.

Spaces for creating works of art or engineering inventions are scattered throughout the Museum

Explore the dynamics of motion, force, and speed while constructing your own roller coaster.  
Sponsored by Con Edison. 

A cozy, quiet area to enjoy books and share inspirational stories. Storytime and other literacy-based programming will be led here.  Sponsored by The Make a Difference with Loukoumi Foundation.

Photo Credit: Lynda Shenkman Curtis

Explore what makes things fly! The fun begins when junior inventors use odd materials to create a flying object and then experiment with it in the museum’s fantastic wind tunnel.