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Current Exhibits (these are just a few of the many exhibits and activities in the Museum):
People of the Past: An Egyptian Tomb* examines the ancient culture through art and artifact.
- Delight in art activities throughout the museum
- Air Does Work:
Set the jet balls in motion with pressurized air
- Enjoy seasonal craft activities throughout the museum
- View a local children’s art exhibit and the annual North Mountain Art League exhibit
- New!
Interactive Weather Station: Investigate Doppler radar screens which track rain, snow, sleet and hail on a regional and local basis and see the latest infrared satellite picture. Read the local weather conditions at the museum and make your own Pennsylvania weather broadcast on live TV! See the weather center now located next to the Colors of Space spaceship.
- Be amazed by Animal Architects: Invites visitors to crawl underground to see animal houses and investigate those along the ground and in the trees.
- Diabetes Exhibit: How Much Should I Eat?, What Should I Drink? & What’s for Lunch? (and Exercise Area).
Provides lessons about healthy choices for the whole family. Supported by a grant from Action Health, Inc.
- Build Bobbi's Body: Place simulated human organs in a soft sculpture.
- Children's Museum Gardens:
In warm weather, ponder the raised gardens outside the Children’s Museum and learn about plants and insects. Visitors can help us keep track of the varieties that drop by our own perennial Butterfly Garden. Each year the Annual Garden takes on a new focus that relates to the exhibit theme.
- Colors of Space:
Enter a spaceship and travel to the far reaches of outer space to see the wonderful colors and mysteries that are invisible to the naked eye. This audiovisual experience is accompanied by exhibits and even space suits to try on.
- Mighty Mouth for Dental Health
, a larger-than-life model of teeth, gums and the tongue will teach children and their families about the importance of dental hygiene.
- Enjoy several other People themed-exhibits currently in development including a new and improved The Coal Mine and sister exhibit The Iron Mine and many, many programs that are planned for the coming year.
- Passage to Pennsylvania
: A New Life for Immigrants, located under the museum’s "Earthdome," will explore the lives and livelihoods of those who came to the Commonwealth seeking better times.
- Old Classroom
: See how your grandparents and parents sat in school. Stoke the wood stove and operate the telephone switchboard.
- Eastern Woodlands Longhouse
: See how Native Americans lived in our region in both a model and a full-sized longhouse.
- General Store and Let's Pretend
: Learn how the old General Store was run and see if you can tell what is in the canned goods. Put on a play in the Let's Pretend area.
 
Perennial Favorites
Coal Mine Tunnel & see the Dinosaurs Above
- The Greenway, Giant Bird’s Nest & the Beaver Lodge
- Special presentations and events posted regularly
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