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Museums and Attractions for Kids
Whitaker Center for Science & Art is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

1. Whitaker Center for Science & Art

8.4
222 Market St (at N 3rd St), Harrisburg, PA
Science Museum · Downtown Harrisburg · 37 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Please Touch Museum is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

2. Please Touch Museum

8.6
4231 Avenue of the Republic, Philadelphia, PA
Museum · West Philadelphia · 114 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Crayola Experience is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

3. Crayola Experience

8.0
30 Centre Sq (at Northampton & 3rd), Easton, PA
Museum · 83 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

DaVinci Science Center is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

4. DaVinci Science Center

8.0
3145 Hamilton Boulevard Byp (at Cedar Crest Blvd), Allentown, PA
Museum · 24 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

5. Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

8.7
10 Childrens Way, Pittsburgh, PA
Museum · Allegheny Center · 30 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Carnegie Science Center is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

6. Carnegie Science Center

8.9
1 Allegheny Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Science Museum · North Side · 61 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

The Hershey Story | Museum on Chocolate Avenue is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

7. The Hershey Story | Museum on Chocolate Avenue

8.8
63 W Chocolate Ave, Hershey, PA
Museum · 21 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Sesame Place is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

8. Sesame Place

8.3
100 Sesame Rd, Langhorne, PA
Amusement Park · 117 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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!

State Museum of Pennsylvania is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

9. State Museum of Pennsylvania

8.2
300 North St (at Forster St), Harrisburg, PA
Museum · Central Business District · 20 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Clyde Peeling's Reptiland is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

10. Clyde Peeling's Reptiland

7.2
18628 US Route 15, Allenwood, PA
Zoo · 22 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Hands-on House, Children's Museum of Lancaster is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

11. Hands-on House, Children's Museum of Lancaster

7.0
721 Landis Valley Rd, Lancaster, PA
Science Museum · 10 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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!

Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

12. Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center

7.2
201 N Findley St, Punxsutawney, PA
Science Museum · 24 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

Heritage Discovery Center is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

13. Heritage Discovery Center

7.5
201 6th Ave, Johnstown, PA
Museum · 2 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

The Franklin Institute is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

14. The Franklin Institute

8.9
222 N 20th St (at Winter St), Philadelphia, PA
Science Museum · Logan Square · 183 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.

No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum is one of Museums and Attractions for Kids.

15. No. 9 Coal Mine & Museum

8.5
9 Dock St, Lansford, PA
History Museum · 6 tips and reviews

visitPAvisitPA: 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.