Exhibits

Description of Galleries:

Speak Loud Gallery

In our Speak Loud Gallery, visitors can act out a play and watch it on TV, create a stop-motion animation feature, participate in revolving hands-on experiences such as face painting, bang out a tune on a PVC pipe organ with a flip-flop or take a turn making music on the many household items.
A side area of this gallery is named the Drip Drop Spot, which is designated for toddlers and their parents or guardians. Toddlers are able to learn balance, practice climbing small stairs, or sit with their parent or guardian to read a book.
The concrete slab tables weigh over 1,700 lbs each.
Lines from Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues are featured on the stools in Speak Loud.
The seats in the 5th Street Theater were used for over 60 years in a Baptist Church in Milford, Ohio.
94 hand-painted faces are located in Speak Loud.

Live Big Gallery

Our Live Big Gallery features all sorts of hands-on experiences, including a giant Simon-like memory game beneath a huge vinyl brain and a game that measures the speed of your reflexes and how many calories you burn.
In this gallery you want to be sure to read all the signs-carefully!
The Big Mouth sculpture debuted at the original Hands On Discovery Children’s Museum.
In Live Big, guests pull a 25-foot-long intestine out of the Venus De Milo. In reality, the Venus De Milo has no intestines. It is a solid marble sculpture.
The animal sounds used in the Reaction Time exhibit were actually produced by exhibit installers.
The Giant Nose in Live Big is 3,000 percent larger than the average adult nose. At this scale, a booger would weigh over 18 pounds!

Work Smart Gallery

Our Work Smart gallery features places where children can see how things work. For example, they can take apart a computer hard drive, build paper airplanes (and other revolving hands-on activities) and construct a ball-bearing roller coaster.
There is an area in Work Smart especially for younger children, which features soft blocks, a Lego table and a sand table.
The Loop-D-Loop launches balls at approximately 12.6 miles per hour.
The giant bucket in Work Smart will continue adding to the total weight, even if the power is turned off, with single-minded ruthlessness - like a cyborg - until its electronic brain rusts, or the year 2045, whichever comes first.
The bucket used for Bucket Full of Kids weighs one ton and was in service for over 25 years! It was made famous by the Maryland Horse Racing Commission in 2003 when the commission used this piece of heavy machinery to exhume the body of Notorious Mudflaps, a championship thoroughbred believed to have been poisoned prior to the 1983 Preakness Stakes. The findings were inconclusive.

Quack Factory Gallery

Our Quack Factory features Moe and our Wet Deck. Moe is our signature 20-foot tall duck that children can climb inside of, shoot balls into his head and watch as they rain down.
Moe overlooks the Wet Deck on the first floor where kids can shoot a mist cannon, try to stop a leak with a PVC pipe puzzle, experiment with the flow of water and see what happens when our vortex bowl fills with water, balls and rubber ducks.
There are dryers located just outside the Wet Deck for some of our more enthusiastic participants.
Over 35 different paint colors were used in the Quack Factory.
11,500 balls, 1,500 ducks, and over 1,700 gallons of water are used in Quack Factory.
Twenty-seven kids can fit comfortably inside the Great Duck Machine. Twenty-eight kids is a pinch.
The Vortex exhibit was invented by accident when a technician lost his dentures as he was draining the basin during a prototyping exercise.
At full capacity, the Ball Vacuum can vacuum over 10,000 balls a day!