The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

The year’s best in sights, sounds, and shows.

The Children’s Museum’s Dinosphere reopens March 19 with a new look and some very old tenants.

The year’s best in music, literature, and theater.

A Children’s Museum exhibit scheduled for this month marks Barbie’s 60th anniversary. The doll has been criticized for her proportions and materialism, but scholars also see her as a progressive symbol.

The 7.5-acre Riley Children’s Health Sports Legends Experience is The Children’s Museum’s biggest expansion in 40 years.

Star Trek and Willy Wonka share space in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis’s newest permanent exhibit, American POP. The past-and-present pop culture showcase features accessories from big-name celebrities like Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson alongside the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and iPods of everyday Americans. Nineties kids can reminisce about killing—sorry, nurturing—their Tamagotchis, superhero fans […]

Among the MLK Day events is storyteller Portia Jackson speaking about courageous children from the Civil Rights Movement at the Children’s Museum.

Via @GoIndyGo: “You know Indy is a world class city when we can handle the President of the United States and @DaveCoulier on the same day.”

Booze lines are long, and mixed drinks take time. Be a hero and order beer.

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