The Garden State Discovery Museum where it’s ok to touch everything

Cherry Hill, NJ – There’s a place in New Jersey where a child can be an NBA all-star, a television news anchor, line chef in a 50’s diner, captain of a fishing boat and much more.    That place is the Garden State Discovery Museum in Cherry Hill, a great fall, winter and rainy day destination for the whole family.

Sure, you can take the kids to a museum where they can just look at not touch, but at the Discovery Museum, not only is touching encouraged, it’s mandatory!  Every ‘exhibit’ in the museum is interactive from the sports stadiums which include basketball court and hockey rink to full service play diner.    

Some highlights of the museum which children always seem to gravitate to include the fully functional televisions studio which includes a news desk, working television cameras, weather map and everything that’s needed for children to pretend they’re in a real live television studio. 

The Silver Diner play area has a fully functional play kitchen in which tiny line order chefs take orders and prepare their culinary creations for eagerly waiting moms and dads in the diner booths.   Little waiters and waitresses run around, taking orders, bussing tables and handing out menus and there’s even bar service.

The museum also has a medical wing where our future doctors and veterinarians check mom and dad in their scrubs, taking xrays, reading charts and most importantly scheduling follow up visits.    For future veterinarians, there’s a pets to check and care for.

After a hard day’s work at the clinic children can head “Down the Shore” and take a fishing expedition on a fishing boat.  For the would be blue collar workers who want to get their hands dirty, there’s a huge construction site that needs lots of fixin’ and the museum provides the children with the tools necessary to get the job done? Can they build it?  They always do.

The possibilities of fun and hands on creativity at the Garden State Discovery Museum are endless.   A fully functioning theater, a rock climbing wall, a garden center and more await your child’s eager hands and buzzing minds.    If you’re looking for something to do on the next rainy weekend, head on down to Cherry Hill and visit the Garden State Dsicovery Museum.