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Want world-class fun? Splash, climb, build, learn and explore at the award-winning Chicago Children's Museum, located at Chicago's famous Navy Pier. It's three floors of fun for children (ages 10 and under) and families! Climb on a ship, hide in a treehouse, construct a building, invent a flying machine, dam up a river, drive a firetruck, make art to take home, and so much more. There's always something new and exciting to discover at Chicago Children’s Museum! Visit www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org for more information on special events, programs and activities.


Tinkering Lab
Now Open!  Tinkering Lab

Chicago Children’s Museum has a brand new permanent exhibit! Inspired by the national maker movement, Tinkering Lab provides children and families with the inspiration, time, space, materials and freedom to innovate and interact directly with the real, three-dimensional world around them. It’s the ultimate workshop inspiring visitors to design, build, test and retest with real tools and materials. Tinkering Lab: Real tools. Real science. Really for kids.


UNBOXED: Adventures in Cardboard UNBOXED: Adventures in Cardboard
Special Exhibit Now Open!

“A playground for the mind where cardboard tinkerers and creative thinkers make extraordinary things from everyday stuff.”

It’s a bird, It’s a plane, it’s...anything you want it to be!

Join us for a very special exhibit featuring the Best Toy Ever, the cardboard box. Learn how to use this simple and classic material to create pretty much anything you can think of. Use your imagination to explore, pretend, construct and create something magical.

Don’t miss UNBOXED: Adventures in Cardboard. Entrance is free with museum admission.



Hours
Open Daily: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Open Sunday and Friday at 9 a.m. for CCM members

CCM is open every holiday except Thanksgiving and Christmas days.

Admission
General admission: $14
Seniors (ages 60 and older): $13
Members and children under 1: Free

Kraft Free Family Night
Thursday evenings, 5 – 8 p.m.
Free admission for everyone

Target Free First Sundays
First Sunday of every month
Free admission all day for ages 15 and under

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For more information on Chicago Children's Museum, please call (312) 527-1000; or visit their website at www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org.
 
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