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.

“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.