Children's Museum in Indianapolis

Here are some of the other things that we did at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The front of the building is a little damaged from the dinosaurs that seem to be roaming about.

There was an excellent dinosaur display on the inside too. It was less that a quarter of the whole museum, but we ended up with a lot of pictures from there. I don't have a good picture of it, but there were two levels of loft (2 and 3 story) overlooking the main dinosaur display room.

Here is a picture of one of their T-Rex's.

This is a shot of the head of a triceratops. If you look close you can see a bubble in front of him with Lexy's head sticking up.
These bubbles were in several places in the museum. Most of them required the children to crawl into a small room where they could then stand. There we a few in with the dinosaurs, several in the middle of the train exhibit, etc.

There was a cool bone dig up area. This one was better that the typical sand over the mold type. The sand was very large grain and they has some sort of sticky substance in it that required the effort to break it up and move it off of the bones. It make it seem like chipping rock. Our kids dug for a little bit.

I wasn't sure what this was, but Isaac figured it out...It's a giant fluid clock. On the left is the hours and on the right is the minutes. So the fluid fills to the level of different numbers to show the time. Isaac was standing in front of the clock at 1:35. You can see the dark blue dot to the left of him at the 1 o'clock level, the numbers are in faint green. And to the right of him you can see the squiggly tube is filled to the 35 minute mark.

One of the museum's flag ship displays in the big mass of blown glass. It is very colorful and reaches 4 stories in the atrium. Behind the sculpture you can see the different levels. There are ramps from level to level. It looked like it would be nice and easy for people pushing strollers.

Another display that they had was the Etch-A-Sketch area. It talked about the history of the toy, that had old ones and new ones. There was a whole section of extreme pictures that people have done on them. This one was my favorite.

There was also a giant Etch-A-Sketch. That thing was 8 feet tall, with knobs that were 18" diameter. Pretty cool.

The train area was cool. The have both a steam engine and a passenger car for the kids to look at. There were electric train sets all over the place, running overhead, in big displays, up little mountains, in tunnels, over tressels, etc. There were little cubbie holes where the kids could climb in behind the displays and watch the trains too.

This was in the train area. Kind of a fun picture of the Isaac and Lexy.
So, GREAT place. Highly recommended. It did have a cost. Family of four is $52, seemed to be well worth it. And I haven't mentioned the guitar display, the StarWars display, the miniature model rooms, the merry go round, the black light maze, the fun house mirrors, the science area, the rock climbing wall, the water table, the live fish habitat, the Egypt display, and on and on... And we can't forget the Barbie display.