10 Travel-Worthy Children's Museums

Finally, an antidote to years of screaming, "don't touch that!" The Please Touch Museum was designed for kids of varying ages to play and experience their environment side by side. There's a popular Wonderland exhibit where toddlers can pick giant wildflowers while their older siblings are engaged in a tea party with Alice herself.

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Tots with TV aspirations will love the Children's Museum of Houston, which features a play TV studio where kids can see themselves on camera, read scripts from the anchor desk, and work the control panel.

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The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is a must for dinosaur fanatics of any age. Visitors are greeted by a life-size replica of a Tyrannosaurus rex, and the museum recently purchased the third most complete T. rex fossil in the world.

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Founded in 1899, the Brooklyn Children's Museum holds the title as the first museum created expressly for children. It may not be the newest kid on the block, but its age isn't slowing it down one bit. Tots used to bustling NYC will love playing in the museum's greenhouse, where they can learn about how plants grow and even dig for wiggly worms in the compost bin. The littlest visitors will have a blast in the 1,700-square-foot Totally Tots area, featuring a Baby Patch, Sand Spot, and Peek-a-Boutique — perfect for toddler-aged tots.

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Devoted Eric Carle fans will be delighted to step into the worlds created by the artist at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA.

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The California Science Center will thrill budding scientists. Its new exhibit, Ecosystems, is made up of eight explorable zones — each of which delves into a different ecological principle.

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