Children can play with books, toys, and clothes in the Peruvian room, or play on African drums and weave cloth at a Ghanaian market. A tent and a rock wall are features of the Australian outback, along with a giant worm. In Body Journey children can look through the eyes of a giant head one kaleidoscope and the other a periscope or floss the teeth in a giant mouth. Models of the human brain can be taken apart and put back together. Play Dough can be molded to a human skull.
Children can wear a doctor s coat or use a wheelchair, a walker or crutches.
Visitors move through the museum with passports. An embosser in each of the seven sections of the museum allows the children to stamp their passports. On Sunday, every child had a different favorite. Jennifer Dixon was equally decisive. They dive right into it.