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Marbles Kids Museum

Marbles Kids Museum is a hands-on, interactive destination that inspires children to be creative thinkers, active learners and confident individuals in today's world. With five galleries and two outdoor escapes, there is no shortage of activity for kids birth to 12 and their families.

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Marbles Kids Museum inspires imagination, discovery and learning through extraordinary adventures in play and larger-than-life IMAX experiences. With five galleries and North Carolina’s only 3D capable IMAX Theatre, there is no shortage of activity for kids and kids-at-heart.

Watch and wonder as kids run the show. In Around Town, children “drive” a real city bus, shop for groceries, harvest and sell veggies, pretend to be paramedics, read x-rays, fight fires, put on plays, ship packages and more. Built around the properties of water, children swab the decks in full pirate regalia aboard our ruggedly realistic pirate ship, designed and built pro bono by Maurer Architecture. Kids get their hands wet in our two running streams, dive into underwater surround sound, dig in the dirt in our outdoor spaces and make environmental crafts in the Eco-Lab. With a focus on creativity and innovation in IdeaWorks, budding architects, designers and builders measure, construct, move, balance, experiment and invent using the power of imagination. WorldTrek takes children on a journalistic journey to four distinct and colorful international destinations.

Let your child’s imagination run free…bring them to Marbles Kids Museum where an otherwise ordinary day will become an extraordinary adventure!

Cost: $5 museum admission for those over the age of 1; IMAX rates vary. Call 919.834.4040 (museum), 919.882.IMAX or visit http://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org for hours.

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