Wednesday - 'Please Touch' Museum

We arranged a late checkout at the hotel so that we could visit the Please Touch museum before we left Philadelphia.

Before we go there I just want to show you a sculpture near the City Hall called 'Your Move'

Here are Ken and T next to the Monopoly Hat....

....and me trying to stop the falling dominoes from crushing T!

Then it was off to the 'Please Touch' museum. Picture overload again and you will see why. As Ken said we could have spent 4 days just in the museum which is designed for children under 7.

Driving the bus, we were passengers. This is a real bus chopped up with working switches etc

It was unfortunate that this bus was right near the entrance. As buses (and trains, trucks, cars and vans) are one of T's favourite things we nearly spent the whole morning on it!

Taking Daddy for a drive

Where The Wild Things Are.....one of T's favourite bedtime stories...and one of Ken's (and mine actually)

When you turned the wheel the boat moved as if it were on the sea

That's actually Ken at the back not a wild thing

Making music under the stars

There was a seperate room for children aged 3 and under and we spent a lot of time in here. It was perfect!

Feeding the pigs

Gathering turnips

Sorting out and delivering the mail

Riding a tractor

Gathering corn. Next to the tractor there were stalks with cups on them that the corn went into

Each of these stepping stones triggered a different animal sound so as you walk across you hear moo, baa, oink!

A scarecrow that had a wardrobe of clothes you could dress him in

Also in this room were some stuffed chickens on nests, when you picked them up there were eggs underneath that you could collect and put in baskets.

Next was the construction zone. All of these panels could be removed from the wall and hammered back on

This was a series of tubes that you can drop balls in and watch as they roll down the tubes

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

The Two of Spades

Arranging shapes to make a picture

Through the rabbit hole

I love the look of amazement on T's face in this one

On the throne hehe

The museum also had a child sized supermarket with products for them to buy and checkouts.

We didn't spend long in the supermarket as T was tired so we watched the childrens theatre show instead. We could have easily spent the rest of the day in the museum, maybe we will return when T is a little older

Soon it was time to load the car and drive to the next part of our adventure to Sesame Street.