LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network
Play fuels curiosity, sparks creativity, unlocks essential skills, boosts wellbeing and inspires a lifelong journey of learning.
The Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) is proud to serve as the host for the LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network, connecting our members to emergent practices, research, and resources that support museums’ ability to offer quality playful learning experiences to their visitors and local community.
The LEGO Playful Learning Museum Network brings twenty-one children’s museums and science centers from around the country together to make sure more children experience the magic of learning through play both within museum walls and out in communities.
Resources
These Play Kits were designed by members of the network to be used with museum visitors, staff, and community.
Tinkering Play Kit
Tinkering is a form of purposeful play that creatively explores materials and phenomena. This kit includes ideas and activities to integrate tinkering into programs for all ages.
Nature Play Kit
Play is the way young children learn about and learn to love nature. This kit includes ideas and activities for engaging young learners (0-7) and their families in play-based activities related to nature and planetary health.
About the Network
Together, the twenty-one museums have created mutually beneficial partnerships with more than 70 community organizations. Since 2021, have reached over 7 million children with the power of learning through play!
- Arizona Science Center
- Boston Children’s Museum
- Brooklyn Children’s Museum
- Chicago Children’s Museum
- Children’s Creativity Museum
- Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
- Children’s Museum of Richmond
- Connecticut Science Center
- Discovery Place
- DuPage Children’s Museum
- Exploratorium
- Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
- Michigan Science Center
- MOSI
- Museum of Discovery and Science
- Museum of Science, Boston
- Orlando Science Center
- Natural History Museum of LA County
- Port Discovery Children’s Museum
- Science Museum of Virginia
- Thinkery
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This work is generously funded by The LEGO Foundation, supported by The LEGO Group, and hosted by ASTC.
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