Play Your Way

Exhibits

Exhibits

Providence Children’s Museum is dedicated to the idea that children learn through play and that play is good for children and their families. The Museum’s hands-on learning environments and programs are designed for children ages 1 to 11 and their adult caregivers.

Water Ways

Explore ice, mist and discover the swirling, whirling ways of water in a water play environment!
Childrens Garden Exhibits

Water Ways

Explore ice, mist and discover the swirling, whirling ways of water in a water play environment!

Enjoy a picnic beside a trickling fountain and learn more about the plants in your own backyard! Kids and grown-ups have active outdoor fun as they discover a host of colorful, hands-on toys that present a series of physical challenges.

Childrens Garden Exhibits

CHILDREN’S GARDEN

Enjoy a picnic beside a trickling fountain and learn more about the plants in your own backyard! Kids and grown-ups have active outdoor fun as they discover a host of colorful, hands-on toys that present a series of physical challenges.

Coming to Rhode Island

Embark on an interactive time-traveling adventure to meet people who immigrated to Rhode Island from around the world and explore history, culture and diversity through stories.
Coming to RI Exhibits

Coming to Rhode Island

Embark on an interactive time-traveling adventure to meet people who immigrated to Rhode Island from around the world and explore history, culture and diversity through stories.

ThinkSpace

Experiment with shapes and spaces through hands-on puzzles and challenges.
Think Space

Thinkspace

Experiment with shapes and spaces through hands-on puzzles and challenges.

BLUE BLOCKS 

Create your own blue-block world that goes far beyond the imagination.

*This exhibit is in collaboration with Providence’s own Imagination Playground

Innovation Lab Exhibits

Blue Blocks

Create your own blue-block world that goes far beyond the imagination. *This exhibit is in collaboration with Providence’s own Imagination Playground

LittleWoods

Climb into a tree house, swoop down a slide and crawl through a bear cave in an enchanting woodland environment. Just for infants to 4-year-olds and their caregivers.

Little Woods

Littlewoods

Climb into a tree house, swoop down a slide and crawl through a bear cave in an enchanting woodland environment. Just for infants to 4-year-olds and their caregivers.

Maker Studio

Explore a different activity each week in a vibrant program space designed for science and nature exploration and art experimentation.
Maker Studio Exhibits

Maker Studio

Explore a different activity each week in a vibrant program space designed for science and nature exploration and art experimentation.

Play Power

Send objects soaring through air tubes and construct magnetic mazes in an environment that celebrates the power of children’s play.
Little Woods

Play Power

Send objects soaring through air tubes and construct magnetic mazes in an environment that celebrates the power of children’s play.

INNOVATION LAB

Providing young innovators with the chance to work with real tools and interesting materials. All visitors can create in age-appropriate ways using a variety of tools like hot glue guns, sewing machines, laser and 3D printers, hammers, nails, and even golf tees and styrofoam balls.

Innovation Lab Exhibits

Innovation Lab

Providing young innovators with the chance to work with real tools and interesting materials. All visitors can create in age-appropriate ways using a variety of tools like hot glue guns, sewing machines, laser and 3D printers, hammers, nails, and even golf tees and styrofoam balls.