November 13, 2008
Hands-On Experience
Photograph by Michael Branscom/Please Touch Museum
Photograph by Michael Branscom/Please Touch Museum
Inside Memorial Hall - a 132-year-old building in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park - children run freely through the 156,000 square feet of space that houses the Please Touch Museum.
On the first floor, young visitors are pilots, pedaling machines that simulate flight. In the River Adventures room, they float boats down a gigantic man-made stream or leap among lily pads. In the Centennial Exploration, children see parts of the city as it existed in the late 1800s.
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