August 2013
When my sister and I were kids, my parents took us to the Please Touch Museum. During the intervening years (ok, decades) they moved from Center City to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park and has become even cooler than it was when we were kids. It's not a museum in the traditional sense, it's more of a giant playground for kids that encourages them to play, pretend and learn.

The Please Touch Museum is now in the beautiful Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park

The Please Touch Museum is now in the beautiful Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park

Memorial Hall is topped by a statue of Columbia holding the laurel branch of glory

The lobby is quite impressive

This replica of the Statue of Liberty torch is made entirely of toys and playthings

Sadie discovers the noisy lily pads

Displays of old toys are throughout the museum

We all rode the carousel

Sadie grabbed the cat on the carousel

Strongest 3 year old ever

Climbing the rock wall

Sadie was the only kid who managed to ride the rowing machine across the room

Learning about aerodynamics or possibly just playing with a purple ball

Selling Rita's Water Ice

Just a kid riding a goose

Having a tea party with Alice in Wonderland

The shrinking room in Wonderland

Working on mommy at CHOP

The Shop Rite supermarket is one of the coolest parts of the Please Touch Museum

The Shop Rite supermarket is one of the coolest parts of the Please Touch Museum

Your eyes are not playing tricks on you, Sadie is not touching the ground

A model of Memorial Hall, home of the Please Touch Museum

The history of the Slinky