ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT LEARNERS CURATORS MISSION: DISCOVERY Carousel Wishes & Dreams Dentzel Carousel The Sophie, American Girl doll; Find all of Exhibits Family Guide painting by Kit Kittredge and the Carousel Nancy Noel her tree house menagerie animals: Your museum may be a little different than you remember, but there 1 lion is so much to rediscover! It doesn’t matter if it’s your first visit to 1 tiger The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis or your 100th—there is always something new to see and explore. Come on an adventure and 3 giraffes get to know your museum better than ever before! 3 goats 3 stags/reindeer THE EXTRAORDINARY EARLY LEARNER OPPORTUNITIES CHILDREN’S MUSEUM COLLECTION Some objects may be of particular Within each exhibit you will find a interest to our youngest visitors— treasure trove of objects to excite, inspire, ages 5 and younger. Help the early Wild Weather inform, and enchant you. These objects learners in your group discover represent only a fraction of the 130,000+ these special objects. Look closely at “TV Specs” Brick from the Indianapolis Star Stuffed toy Olaf artifacts and specimens in the museum’s the details on these objects. Do you from Frozen sunglasses Yellow Brick Road mug from the collection! How well do you think you see any colors, shapes, or patterns? in The Wizard of Oz blizzard of 1978 know our exhibits and the objects on Do they remind you of anything (loan) display? Use this checklist and these you have seen before? What stories questions to explore. can you tell about these objects? Which one is your favorite and why? Barbie You Can Be Anything: The Experience ICONIC OBJECTS 1959 first edition Amelia Earhart’s Doctor clothing Detective Barbie Each gallery contains objects or EXPERT CURATOR Barbie doll flight goggles and matching installations that are so unique, so Looking for a bit more of a challenge? doctor Barbie doll remarkable, and so fascinating that they Put yourself to the test and tackle Art glass Barbie, can only be called “iconic.” Can you find these gallery challenges. custom-made for these iconic objects in each gallery? What The Children’s do you find most interesting about them? BONUS REX ROUND! Museum Which is your favorite and why? Everyone’s favorite museum dinosaur, Rex, wanted to get in on the fun. HIDDEN GEMS Find the three stuffed Rex toys ScienceWorks There are many hidden gems throughout hidden in the museum! the museum: objects that may be small Amethyst vugg Glow-in-the-dark Living pond Borden seafloor or easy to miss, but are worth finding minerals creatures fossil plate and getting to know the stories that only (What are they?) they can tell. Be on the lookout for these hidden gems. What do you think is special about it? Have you ever seen anything like it before? ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT LEARNERS CURATORS LEARNERS CURATORS Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience® Indoor Dinosphere ® Indy Car driven Colts Super Bowl Blue, Colts mascot Find the first goal Leonardo; Bambiraptor Dragonflies Gorgosaurus skull by Willy T. Ribbs XLI ring and first win pucks Bucky with brain tumor used by the Indy Fuel hockey team All Aboard! Reuben Wells Lionel Blue Comet Overhead How many model Ramp walkways, Sunburst Atrium, and Welcome Center steam engine toy train set model train locomotives are in Screen-used Sauropod femur; LEGO Miniature the wall cases? Bumblebee Hogwarts Castle Propylaeum Transformer prop; Putti (Cupids) Carriage House in the Fireworks (original home Treasures of the Earth Fireworks of Glass of Glass Chihuly of The Children’s Indiana Jones hat sculpture by Dale ceiling Tomb of Pharaoh Pharaoh Seti I Find the oldest Chihuly; Museum) Seti I reproduction and whip used by mummy object in the Harrison Ford in Water Clock; reproduction exhibit Terra Cotta Warrior Indiana Jones and Mastodon fossil reproduction the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Beyond Spaceship Earth Escape Pod set Captain Kirk Toy spacesuit How many American POP piece from spacesuit worn by helmet astronauts lived in Scout Memories Golden Ticket used Upside down How many Star Star Trek Beyond Chris Pine in Star or went to school painting by in Willy Wonka Spider-Man Wars figures do Trek Into Darkness in Indiana? Norman Rockwell & the Chocolate you see? Can you Factory name them? (How Captain Kirk Starfleet uniform many are there?) worn by Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Take Me There®: Greece Darkness Airplane; Greek Orthodox Owl sculptures Backgammon Parthenon Model Icons set; Corinth Paleo Art Gallery archaeological discoveries Feathered T. rex Opalized Dracorex Head What sauropods Head Ammonite are shown in the art? Power of Children Amargosaurus Ryan’s Bedroom; Pen used by Ruby’s school book Which ’80s Anne’s Annex; President Johnson celebrities Argentinosaurus Ruby’s Classroom to sign the Civil Ryan’s fuzzy bear supported Ryan? Rights Act; slippers Diplodocus Replica Anne Frank Saltosaurus diary Ultrasaurus
Barosaurus (femur)
Brachiosaurus ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT LEARNERS CURATORS LEARNERS CURATORS Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience® Indoor Dinosphere ® Indy Car driven Colts Super Bowl Blue, Colts mascot Find the first goal Leonardo; Bambiraptor Dragonflies Gorgosaurus skull by Willy T. Ribbs XLI ring and first win pucks Bucky with brain tumor used by the Indy Fuel hockey team All Aboard! Reuben Wells Lionel Blue Comet Overhead How many model Ramp walkways, Sunburst Atrium, and Welcome Center steam engine toy train set model train locomotives are in Screen-used Sauropod femur; LEGO Miniature the wall cases? Bumblebee Hogwarts Castle Propylaeum Transformer prop; Putti (Cupids) Carriage House in the Fireworks (original home Treasures of the Earth Fireworks of Glass of Glass Chihuly of The Children’s Indiana Jones hat sculpture by Dale ceiling Tomb of Pharaoh Pharaoh Seti I Find the oldest Chihuly; Museum) Seti I reproduction and whip used by mummy object in the Harrison Ford in Water Clock; reproduction exhibit Terra Cotta Warrior Indiana Jones and Mastodon fossil reproduction the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Beyond Spaceship Earth Escape Pod set Captain Kirk Toy spacesuit How many American POP piece from spacesuit worn by helmet astronauts lived in Scout Memories Golden Ticket used Upside down How many Star Star Trek Beyond Chris Pine in Star or went to school painting by in Willy Wonka Spider-Man Wars figures do Trek Into Darkness in Indiana? Norman Rockwell & the Chocolate you see? Can you Factory name them? (How Captain Kirk Starfleet uniform many are there?) worn by Chris Pine in Star Trek Into Take Me There®: Greece Darkness Airplane; Greek Orthodox Owl sculptures Backgammon Parthenon Model Icons set; Corinth Paleo Art Gallery archaeological discoveries Feathered T. rex Opalized Dracorex Head What sauropods Head Ammonite are shown in the art? Power of Children Amargosaurus Ryan’s Bedroom; Pen used by Ruby’s school book Which ’80s Anne’s Annex; President Johnson celebrities Argentinosaurus Ruby’s Classroom to sign the Civil Ryan’s fuzzy bear supported Ryan? Rights Act; slippers Diplodocus Replica Anne Frank Saltosaurus diary Ultrasaurus
Barosaurus (femur)
Brachiosaurus ICONS HIDDEN GEMS FOR EARLY FOR EXPERT LEARNERS CURATORS MISSION: DISCOVERY Carousel Wishes & Dreams
Dentzel Carousel The Sophie, American Girl doll; Find all of Exhibits Family Guide painting by Kit Kittredge and the Carousel Nancy Noel her tree house menagerie animals: Your museum may be a little different than you remember, but there 1 lion is so much to rediscover! It doesn’t matter if it’s your first visit to 1 tiger The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis or your 100th—there is always something new to see and explore. Come on an adventure and 3 giraffes get to know your museum better than ever before! 3 goats 3 stags/reindeer THE EXTRAORDINARY EARLY LEARNER OPPORTUNITIES CHILDREN’S MUSEUM COLLECTION Some objects may be of particular Within each exhibit you will find a interest to our youngest visitors— treasure trove of objects to excite, inspire, ages 5 and younger. Help the early Wild Weather inform, and enchant you. These objects learners in your group discover represent only a fraction of the 130,000+ these special objects. Look closely at “TV Specs” Brick from the Indianapolis Star Stuffed toy Olaf artifacts and specimens in the museum’s the details on these objects. Do you from Frozen sunglasses Yellow Brick Road mug from the collection! How well do you think you see any colors, shapes, or patterns? in The Wizard of Oz blizzard of 1978 know our exhibits and the objects on Do they remind you of anything (loan) display? Use this checklist and these you have seen before? What stories questions to explore. can you tell about these objects? Which one is your favorite and why? Barbie You Can Be Anything: The Experience ICONIC OBJECTS 1959 first edition Amelia Earhart’s Doctor clothing Detective Barbie Each gallery contains objects or EXPERT CURATOR Barbie doll flight goggles and matching installations that are so unique, so Looking for a bit more of a challenge? doctor Barbie doll remarkable, and so fascinating that they Put yourself to the test and tackle Art glass Barbie, can only be called “iconic.” Can you find these gallery challenges. custom-made for these iconic objects in each gallery? What The Children’s do you find most interesting about them? BONUS REX ROUND! Museum Which is your favorite and why? Everyone’s favorite museum dinosaur, Rex, wanted to get in on the fun. HIDDEN GEMS Find the three stuffed Rex toys ScienceWorks There are many hidden gems throughout hidden in the museum! the museum: objects that may be small Amethyst vugg Glow-in-the-dark Living pond Borden seafloor or easy to miss, but are worth finding minerals creatures fossil plate and getting to know the stories that only (What are they?) they can tell. Be on the lookout for these hidden gems. What do you think is special about it? Have you ever seen anything like it before?