Children's Museums in NC

The Best Educational Play Experience in North Carolina!
The Greensboro Children’s Museum is a 37,000 square-foot facility in North Carolina which specializes in permanent exhibits that are designed to stimulate children’s imaginations and provide educational play experiences. Some of the most fun and educational activities that kids can do in the museum are taking orders, making pizzas and serving them fresh from the oven to customers, putting on a puppet show on stage, pretending to be a policeman or a driver in real police cars and trucks and more.

Other activities that kids can also do with their adult companions are cooking camps, gardening and visiting the edible school yards. 

Fun and Educational Hands-on Learning Exhibits!
Children’s Museum of Iredell County’s mission is to preserve, promote and provide learning experiences in culture, heritage, science and arts not only in North Carolina but also across the nation. The 1,600 square foot museum features hands-on learning exhibits, programs in the arts, culture and sciences, workshops as well as a performing art series.

The Children’s Museum of Iredell County also features a 1700 square foot play space called “Kids@Play” which allows children to enjoy rotating exhibits, programs and classes and unique opportunities to explore science through inquiry and hands-on activities. It aims children to discover themselves and others through spontaneous social interactions, tap into their curiosity and creativity and increase awareness and spark creativity, while engendering a lifelong love of learning. 

Enjoyable Hands-on Museum in North Carolina!
Kidzu Children’s Museum in North Carolina is a hands-on museum dedicated to inspiring young children and adults in learning through play. This museum already serves over 150,000 visitors, offers different outreach programs to children in need, provides a wide array of weekly and educational programs, hosts traveling exhibits from around the nation and had launched its original creative exhibit.

Kidzu also provides field trips for schools, preschools and child care centers and other groups and it is a great location for birthday parties as well. 

A family-oriented Children's Museum in North Carolina!
The 135,000 square foot Rocky Mount Children’s Museum and Science Center in North Carolina aims to raise awareness by encouraging visitors with their participation in science, mathematics, and technology. The family-oriented children's museum is also an excellent way for families to spend quality time with one another. Its programs and exhibits are especially engaging, hands-on, and fun for absolutely everyone.

The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free to City of Rocky Mount Residents on Sunday.

Spanish and French Camps in a Children Museum!
The Children's Museum of Wilmington in North Carolina stimulates children’s imagination, curiosity and love of learning. The aim of the museum is to have its visitors learn amazing things about themselves and the world through informal, child-directed and playful hands-on experiences.

The Children's Museum of Wilmington has a warm and inviting environment where children and adults will find ample opportunities to explore the arts, sciences and culture through engaging exhibits and programs. Some of the exciting activities in store for kids are tree planting, art and math activities and French and Spanish Camps.

Explore Culture and History through Hiking!
The Swannanoa Valley Museum in North Carolina has served the Western North Carolina community since 1989 as the primary children's museum of general local history. The history of the region is interpreted in a unique collection of photos and artifacts from the Swannanoa Valley. The Swannanoa Valley Museum also preserves and interprets the social, cultural and natural history of the Swannanoa Valley. The museum develops dynamic programs and engages exhibitions for the education and enrichment of the society as well. Swannanoa offers a lot of activities which visitors will surely find exciting and educational.

A few of these activities are Swannanoa Rim Explorer which offers experienced hikers the opportunity to explore remote and little traveled territories and Daycations which is designed for excursionists which prefer to discover the natural and heritage treasures in Western North Carolina but don’t prefer to hike.

The Most Exclusive Dinosaur Fossils in North Carolina!
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in North Carolina strives to discover and document biological diversity, promote environmental awareness and relate the natural sciences to everyday life. There are more than 3 million specimens in the collection of the museum which focuses on zoology, geology and paleontology of North Carolina and Southeastern United States.

Exhibits include dinosaur fossils, whale skeletons and re-creations of North Carolina habitats. A few of the popular exhibits are Willo, the world’s only dinosaur with the fossilized heart and the Terror of the South, the only Acrocanthosaurus skeleton displayed anywhere in North Carolina or in the world. The main gallery also showcases hand blown glasses, NC pottery, wildlife photography, lithographs and paintings at this Children's museum. 

Kid-sized city in North Carolina!
Fascinate-U Children’s Museum in North Carolina is a museum for children where they can explore their world the way they learn best, through creative role-playing, manipulation, and interaction with each other and the objects around them. The museum maintains one guiding principle: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Fascinate-U Children’s Museum firmly believes that children learn best through hands-on play which is evident in their exciting and ever-changing list of programs and events. Its programs are designed to be adaptable for all ages such as the mini-city where everything is kid-sized. Other featured programs are Gro-Right Grocery & Deli and mini versions of a 911 Emergency Dispatch Center and NC Weather forecast center.

Child-sized Krispy Kreme Doughnut Factory in North Carolina!
The Mission of the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem is to create a compelling destination for the community of North Carolina to play and learn by experiencing literature, storytelling and the arts to enhance children’s imaginations, creativity and love of reading.

Some of the fun and educational programs and exhibits of the museum are child-sized Krispy Kreme Doughnut Factory, oversized blocks which children can create race cars, ball tracks and forts with and Surprise Garden where kids can enjoy flowers, colorful painted pots and a sandbox.