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Overview
Admission:
Admission is $23-$38, prices vary daily. Admission is $6 the first Thursday of each month, 4-8 pm.
Located just minutes from downtown, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis features five floors of fun and interactive learning that have the power to transform the lives of children and families across the arts, world cultures, sciences, and humanities. For more information about the popular tourist attraction and museum voted number one in the nation by multiple outlets, please visit our website, follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook and enjoy our photos on Instagram.
- Run, drive, jump, putt, and play at the Riley Children's Health Sports Legends Experience, a 7.5-acre sports wonderland featuring 12 different sports. Closes each season in November. For dates of operation and hours, visit childrensmuseum.org.
- Walk among prehistoric giants in Dinosphere. Touch real fossils, talk to real paleontologists, and learn how they research and prepare the fossils they’ve excavated. Then try your hand at paleo art in the Art Lab.
- See Dale Chihuly’s 43-foot-tall Fireworks of Glass sculpture featuring over 3,200 stunning pieces of brilliant blown glass.
- Examine the lives of three 20th-century children (Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, Ryan White, and Malala Yousafzai) who changed the world in The Power Of Children.
- Visit a gallery that pays tribute to the men and women who helped make space exploration possible in Beyond Spaceship Earth. It includes a recreation of portions of the inside of the International Space Station (ISS); a one-of-a-kind, immersive space object experience called the Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater; and an Astronaut Wall of Fame, which highlights astronauts with ties to Indiana.
- Learn about some of archaeology’s greatest mysteries in National Geographic Treasures of the Earth. Explore Seti’s Tomb, Captain Kidd’s Shipwreck, and the Terra Cotta Warriors.
Photo opportunities include the 16-foot-tall movie prop Bumblebee, from the first Transformers movie, North America’s largest water clock, and a historic working carousel.
The museum is closed on select Mondays during the year. For a complete listing visit childrensmuseum.org.
Details
- Banquet Capacity 1,450
Amenities
- American Express
- Discover
- Mastercard
- Visa
Map
Hours
We will be closed on Mondays through Memorial Day this year, 2023. Exceptions to this are the Mondays during spring break: Monday, April 3.
Accessibility Information
Jun 11 to Jan 3, 2027
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