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Before school starts, take the kids on one last day trip! From giant hearts to weightlessness simulators, PA offers many attractions that allow people of any age to discover and learn.
Science Museum · Downtown Harrisburg · 37 tips and reviews
visitPA: From a six-story IMAX® theater, a performance theater featuring world-class live shows and three floors of imaginative, engaging exhibits, the Whitaker Center is sure to delight the whole family.
visitPA: Visit one of the best children’s museums in the nation. The museum offers interactive exhibits from Rainforest Rhythm to Flight Fantasy, for children to learn through play.
visitPA: Let creativity run free! With 18 one-of-a-kind attractions, featuring a crayon-making station and a live theater performance, kids and adults alike can experience the magic of Crayola.
3145 Hamilton Boulevard Byp (at Cedar Crest Blvd), Allentown, PA
Museum · 24 tips and reviews
visitPA: Want to be an astronaut for the day? The DaVinci Science Center welcomes guests to explore weightlessness and tumbling motions, as well as electricity and creepy crawlies.
visitPA: Whether it's behind the wheel of a car, in a video installation of falling letters or learning how to grow a garden, this museum offers interactive exhibits for the young tinkerer, artist and more.
visitPA: Favorite attractions are the Buhl Digital Dome, a planetarium show which transports guests to space and inside the human body, and the Miniature Railroad that brings the history of Western PA to life.
visitPA: Guaranteed to bring out the kid in everyone, the museum’s Chocolate Lab offers participatory classes such as tempering, molding, dipping and even making chocolate from scratch.
visitPA: Sesame Place is the only theme park in the country dedicated to the popular TV show 'Sesame Street' and is an ideal spot for families with young children!
Museum · Central Business District · 20 tips and reviews
visitPA: With four floors of interactive exhibits and activities representing Pennsylvania's story from Earth's beginning to today, the State Museum is a great place to keep growing minds engaged.
visitPA: Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland is an AZA accredited zoo specializing in reptiles. Visitors experience daily feedings and touch reptile skins to feel the difference between turtles, snakes and crocodiles.
visitPA: Hands-on House is designed for children ages two to 10 to learn, explore and play. The exhibits, classes and programs are short on lectures and long on interactive and participatory activities!
visitPA: The Weather Discovery Center features wildly interactive exhibits and more folklore and science than anywhere else in the world! Visitors even enter through the door of a 12-foot tall tree stump.
visitPA: Located in the Heritage Discovery Center, the Johnstown Children's Museum encourages children to learn about Johnstown's geography, history and culture through fun and interactive exhibits.
Science Museum · Logan Square · 183 tips and reviews
visitPA: One of America’s oldest centers of science education, visitors can learn how to handle and control a real jet, walk through a giant heart and experience the law of center of gravity aboard Sky Bike.
visitPA: Ride by rail into the mine and then take a walking tour which allows you to experience and see the true inner workings of one of America's oldest mines.