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The Strong National Museum of Play

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Exhibits


Experience educational and intergenerational fun at The Strong museum.

Our Exhibits

With 100,000 square feet of dynamic, interactive exhibit space, The Strong museum provides educational fun for kids of all ages.

Stroll down Sesame Street or fight
crime with your favorite superheroes.
Explore a lush indoor garden filled with
butterflies or leap into the pages of the
world’s biggest pop-up book. Exciting
adventures are around every corner in
a museum that runs on imagination.

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Museum Exhibits

The Strong blends the best features of both history museums and children’s museums to explore the ways in which play encourages learning, creativity, and discovery.

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Online Exhibits

Through its online exhibits, The Strong’s historians, curators, librarians, and archivists investigate the history, evolution, and cultural effects of play and playthings.

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Featured Exhibits

Museum Exhibits

Discover two floors of hands-on exhibits and countless displays of artifacts of play.

Exhibits

Short-Term

PAW Patrol: Adventure Play

Opens May 14 Save the day with the heroic PAW Patrol pups at the all-new PAW Patrol: Adventure Play exhibit, presented in The Strong’s Fidelis Care Gallery. Run rescue missions and work together to […]

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Exhibits

Permanent

Play Lab

Now Open! Invent, construct, and create in The Strong’s 800-square-foot Play Lab on the museum’s first floor (near the Field of Play exhibit). Unlock the educational power of play and enter a playful […]

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Museum Exhibits

Spend an afternoon or an entire weekend among The Strong museum’s two floors of interactive exhibits!

Exhibits

Permanent

America at Play

Dive into the past and explore more than 300 years of play and pastimes in America at Play—a permanent exhibit at The Strong. Through a blend of rare artifacts and hands-on activities, learn […]

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American Comic Book Heroes

Grab a cape and leap into the world of superheroes with the American Comic Book Heroes: The Battle of Good vs. Evil exhibit at The Strong museum. Explore seven decades of amazing characters who have […]

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Exhibits

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Build, Drive, Go

Put imagination into motion and zoom, sail, or fly into the Build, Drive, Go exhibit to explore the history of vehicles of all sorts—from trucks and trains to planes and boats—through three centuries […]

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eGameRevolution

From the dawn of Pong to today’s hot gamer trends, at eGameRevolution—an original, highly interactive exhibit produced by The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG)—every generation can play its way […]

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Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden

Enter the lush rain forest environment and walk among hundreds of brilliantly colored, free-flying tropical and native butterflies that flutter about—and may even land on you! Be sure to visit the chrysalis case and see emerging butterflies.


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Halls of Fame

The museum is home to three halls of fame on its second floor.

Experience the cutting-edge Toy Halls of Fame exhibit and go hands-on with the toys beloved by generations. Displays featuring The Strong’s National Toy Hall of Fame inductees pair with displays featuring toy industry luminaries recognized by the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame.

Celebrate the most iconic and influential games of all time—from Pong to Minecraft—in a space dedicated to the inductees of The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame (adjacent to the interactive eGameRevolution exhibit).

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National Toy Hall of Fame

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World Video Game Hall of Fame

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It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.”
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