The Experience
The city’s award-winning children’s museum is fun-filled, totally hands-on, and so delightful that adults are entertained, too. Each nook and cranny has a different theme — from the fantastic to the practical. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, kids can play croquet with the Queen and sip tea with the Mad Hatter; nearby, oversized props bring Maurice Sendak’s classics to life.
Kids can take the wheel of a real bus and sail a boat on a mini-Delaware River; in Barnyard Babies, the youngest visitors (age 3 and under) can enjoy an interactive farm setting where they can feed the chickens, ride a tractor and dress a scarecrow. Please Touch is also a first live theater experience for young children — Please Touch Playhouse performances are original and interactive and take place daily!
History
One of the lasting museums from the tourist upgrade of Philadelphia that coincided with the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, Please Touch Museum® filled a gap in the city’s cultural scene. Other museums in the area certainly have sections for children, but Please Touch, designed for kids from 1 to 7, is all kids, all the time.