Come interact with our special report on the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum. Use your mouse to explore the book. In other words, Please Touch It!
More than 30 years after starting life in a small corner of another museum, and after a difficult decade toddling around Philadelphia in search of bigger digs, the Please Touch Museum is home.
- and so is the fun
'Man, it's humongous."
That was my 8-year-old son's reaction as we pulled up to Memorial Hall. But for anyone fearing loss of intimacy with the Please Touch Museum's move this month from a tiny Center City rowhouse to the granite behemoth in Fairmount Park, behold a recent Saturday-morning scene in the lower level.
If the new Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall were a movie, it would be Fantasia. Classically highbrow and totally trippy.
Printable Museum Info and Directions
Inside a climate-controlled room at Fairmount Park's Memorial Hall is a long-forgotten Philadelphia treasure: a three-dimensional "snapshot" of the Centennial Exposition as it looked on Independence Day in 1876.
Like The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty is a bold and shimmering invitation to classical music. The 1984 recording made by the Philadelphia...
If at some point in the last dozen years she has talked you into submission about the importance of children's museums, or twisted your arm to donate money until it hurts, you might forgive her.
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