Museum · Mapleton-Fall Creek
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
3000 N Meridian St, Indianapolis 46208
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The largest children's museum in the world, on North Meridian Street, with five floors of galleries on dinosaurs, space, world cultures, science and pop culture. A Chihuly glass tower rises through the center, and traveling family exhibitions rotate through the year.
Permanent exhibitions
- Dinosphere (real dinosaur fossils in a recreated Cretaceous landscape)
- Fireworks of Glass, a 43-foot Dale Chihuly tower and ceiling
- Beyond Spaceship Earth (space exploration)
- National Geographic Treasures of the Earth (archaeology of Egypt, China and the Caribbean)
- The Power of Children: Making a Difference (Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, Ryan White)
- Take Me There: Peru
- ScienceWorks
- American POP