Our Exhibits
Interactive, hands-on fun, with places to build, create, explore and discover.
Our STEAM-based exhibits offer opportunities for playful learning for
children of every age group and learning style
Fit City
Welcome to Fit City, an interactive exhibition designed for children and their grown-ups to learn about healthy choices for their bodies, bellies, and brains. See more here
Encourages Cause and Effect, Collaboration, Communication, Color/pattern Identification, Creativity and Flexible Thinking, Dramatic Play, Executive Function, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Imagination, Literacy, Math, Science Process Skills, Sensory Motor Skills, Spatial Awareness, and Technology.
Sponsored by and co-developed with input from White Plains Hospital
Play Around the World: Explore Cultures Through Play
New Discover the different types of play in Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean cultures. Engage in immersive activities that will transport you to a preserve where you can feed pandas, attend a cherry blossom picnic, or "dive" into an under-the-sea area inspired by the story of the Jeju mermaids. See more here
Explores recognizable methods of play such as roleplay, constructive building, imaginary play, and symbolic, social, and gross motor activities.
Toddler Beach
A colorful and inviting soft play area that mimics the beach outside our doors.
Encourages opportunites to practice and develop gross motor skills through movement and climbing, collaboration and communication, spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination
Sponsored by Curry Automotive
Pretend Play Stage
The ultimate dramatic play area! Try on costumes backstage and then bring imaginative dramatic play to life under the stage lights!
Encourages Imaginative Play, Collaboration and Communication, Literacy, and Flexible, Creative Thinking
KEVA Planks Construction Zone
An interactive experience that introduces kids to concepts of architecture, engineering, balance, and symmetry.
Encourages Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Dramatic Play, Engineering, Executive Function, Fine Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Imagination, Math, Problem-Solving, Science Process Skills, Sensory Motor Skills, Spatial Awareness
MakerSpace
A dedicated, interactive MakerSpace for all ages. Our MakerSpaces feature interactive, STEM and STEAM based activities in art, design, technology, engineering and science. Children have an opportunity to explore new concepts every time they visit.
Sponsored by Wells Fargo
Science themed activities sponsored by Schoen Family
Pool Noodle Pixel Wall
Pixelated collaborative mural spanning 48 feet with over 2500 pegs. An ever-changing exhibit where math, art, and collaboration meet.
Encourages Collaboration, Color/Pattern Identification, Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Fine Motor & Gross Motor Skills, Literacy, Math, Sensory Motor Skills, and Spatial Awareness
Funded by NYSCA
Wind Tubes
Discover the power of wind currents! Make things fly while examining drag and force.
Explore Cause & Effect, Collaboration, Color/Pattern Identification, Dramatic Play, Executive Function, Gross Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Sensory Motor Skills Spatial Awareness
Mist Tornado
Explore the incredible power of a tornado! Using water vapor and fans, create the vortex of a tornado with a simple touch of a button.
Explore Science, Physics, Weather Patterns. Encourages Cause & Effect Communication, Executive Function, Imagination, Technology
Rigamajig
A larger-than-life erector set! Using extra large wooden pieces and plastic nuts and bolts, invent new structures, vehicles, engineering marvels!
Encourages Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Dramatic Play, Engineering, Executive Function, Fine & Gross Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Imagination, Math, Problem-Solving, Science Process Skills, Collaboration
Cardboard Construction
Cardboard: the ultimate open-ended building material! Use the Box Lox & Makedo Tools & Screws to fasten pieces easily and securely and create your own structure.
Encourages Taking Safe Risks, Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Dramatic Play, Engineering, Executive Function, Fine & Gross Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Imagination, Math, Problem-Solving, Sensory Motor Skills
Build Your Own Roller Coaster
Ultimate mini rollercoaster! Put your engineering skills to the test.
Encourages Cause & Effect, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity & Flexible thinking, Engineering, Executive Function, Fine Motor Skills, Gross Motor Skills, Hand-Eye Coordination, Problem-Solving, Science Process Skills, Spatial Awareness
Dry Erase Drawing Table
Unleash your creativity with our renewable drawing tabletop.
Encourages Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Collaboration, Color/Pattern Identification, Fine Motor Skill, and Imagination
Book Nook
A cozy, quiet area to enjoy books, take a break, and share stories.
Join us every weekend for storytimes and other literacy-based programming
Clixo
A magnet engineering set with infinite design possibilities where the only limit is your imagination!
Encourages Collaboration, Color/Pattern Identification, Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Dramatic Play, Engineering, Executive Function, Fine Motor Skills, Math, Problem-Solving
Lavan Family Art Gallery
An art gallery showcasing local artists.
Nanotechnology
Think small, now even smaller…and explore the teeny tiny world of nanotechnology - Nano particles can be anything from a teeny fleck in a snowflake to the crystal plasma on the screen of your cell phone. Visitors use “spy skills” to find examples of nano products and phenomena as part of several interactive challenges while exploring effects of static electricity and gravity
Train Table
Our own version of an all around favorite - the train table, with space to design large and small tracks and imaginative routes for your trains!
Encourages Collaboration, Engineering, Design, Spatial Relations
Wikki Stix Web Table
Make endless connections, shapes, creatures, numbers, and letters with Wikki Stix at a table that offers vertical and horizontal building opportunities and more Wikki Stix than you can ever have at home!
Encourages Collaboration, Color/Pattern Identification, Creativity & Flexible thinking, Dramatic Play, Engineering, Fine Motor Skills,, Hand-Eye Coordination Imagination, Math, Sensory Motor Skills
Sprinkles Throughout the Museum
Keep your mind and your eyes open for exhibits, activities, and special experiences sprinkled throughout the Museum…you will always find something new!
Tape Tapestry Wall
An ever-changing, ever-growing communal art exploration using removable tape.
Encourages Creativity, Color/Pattern Identification, Creativity & Flexible Thinking, Fine & Gross Motor Skills, Imagination, Literacy, Math and Spatial Awareness