Providence Children's Museum

Address:100 S St.
Providence, Rhode Island
Tel: (401) 273-5437

Visit Rhode Island's only museum for children, where kids can view giant teeth, climb down manholes and enjoy hands-on activities all day long!

After operating out of Pawtucket for 20 years, the Providence Children's Museum opened its bigger and better quarters in Providence's jewelry district in 1997, a 17,000- square-foot space, with two light-flooded floors. The museum is geared toward kids 1-11 years old and boasts great hands-on exhibits such as Teeth!, where kids get to brush a giant mouth, examine the jaws of tigers, beavers and dinosaurs and learn about toothy traditions from around the world; Water Ways, where kids get to build fountains, float boats and discover the ''whirling and swirling ways'' of water and City Streets, where future urban planners can climb down manholes to discover the secret world beneath our streets, try out a real steamroller and find out how roads are made. Rhode Island plants, trees and shrubs are exhibited in the Children's Garden and the museum is within walking distance of the downtown business district and Providence's inner city neighborhoods.

If traveling North to Providence, take 95 North to Exit 18 (Thurbers Avenue) and turn right at the first light onto Eddy Street. Continue straight on Eddy Street through the intersection with Point Street. Take the first left on South Street to the museum.

The non-profit Children's Museum of Rhode Island was incorporated in 1976 as a participatory learning center for children, their parents and teachers; it opened to the public in 1977 in the Pitcher-Goff House in Pawtucket. Governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, its policies are implemented by a professional staff. Families and school children from communities throughout Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts visit the Museum