Children’s Museum Indianapolis
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis in Indiana is recognized as the largest children’s museum in the world, offering five floors packed with interactive exhibits focused on arts, sciences, and humanities.
Located at 3000 North Meridian Street, this award-winning museum attracts more than a million visitors each year and features over 130,000 artifacts, including dinosaur fossils, a historic carousel, a steam locomotive, and the renowned 43-foot-tall glass sculpture, “Fireworks of Glass Tower and Ceiling”
Dinosphere
Dinosphere at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is an immersive exhibit dedicated to dinosaurs and the prehistoric world, being one of the museum’s most popular attractions for all ages. Dinosphere offers over 7,000 square feet of new experiences that bring visitors face-to-face with giant sauropods discovered at the museum’s own Jurassic Mile dig site in Wyoming. With two 70-foot-long Jurassic sauropods, Dinosphere lets guests marvel at enormous dinosaurs, including two new 70-foot-long Jurassic sauropods, and experience an engaging environment complete with sound and light shows, thunderstorm simulations, and realistic prehistoric scenery.
All Aboard!
The All Aboard! experience is centred around the mighty Reuben Wells, a 19th-century steam locomotive that once pushed trains up the steepest standard-gauge hill in the United States in Madison, Indiana. You can watch the Reuben Wells “take off” every 30 minutes in a dramatic three-minute sound and light show that highlights the power and history of this 35-foot-long, 55-ton engineering marvel.
With a hands-on adventure where you can explore the locomotive and its history, including “riding” the rails in a tool car and operating various train functions.
Designed to inspire visitors’ imaginations and curiosity about trains and their place in history, making it a captivating experience for families and train enthusiasts alike.
With an accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums and consistently ranked among the top family attractions nationwide for all the family.
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