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Following the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the Warhawk Air Museum will unveil its War on Terror expansion, featuring the stories of Idaho veterans. Years in the making, the expansion sits in a former airplane hangar behind the museum’s main building. Glass display cases feature memorabilia, photos and gear donated to the museum by vets. Each…

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center has announced the opening of a new satellite museum, Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360. The location opened on 26 August in downtown Chicago at 360 N. State St. Launching during Skokie Museum renovations, the new location ensures the museum’s vital mission continues amid rising antisemitism and hatred, making Holocaust…

The City of Milpitas was once home to a 300-acre Western Pacific Railroad industrial park and is still known as the Crossroads of Silicon Valley. Storybook SCCLD’s Milpitas Library Railway Rollick is filled with fun activities for children 0-10 years old. Find a quiet reading nook on the train, or test out your balance skills…

At the Glazer Children’s Museum, the new bilingual exhibit “Let’s See,” presented by the Glazer Vision Foundation, invites families to explore the science of vision through fun, hands-on activities. Visitors can discover how eyes work by mixing colors, walking through a giant kaleidoscope, casting colorful shadows, and peering through a water sphere that mimics how…

The City of Gilroy offers residents the perfect blend of small-town charm and natural open spaces. The Gilroy Library also holds a secret world, an Earthen Excursion, that exists underground. MoleBot will lead families to discover hidden gems, as well as colors, letters, numbers and words in both English and Spanish, while children use their…

Light Lab is a brand-new immersive exhibit at Science City Kansas City. This extraordinary exhibit is the bright idea of Delta Woods Middle School students, grand prize winners of the 2023-24 Burns & McDonnell Battle of the Brains competition. Within Light Lab, visitors unravel the captivating principles of optics and illumination through tech-driven interactives.⁣ Ravenswood…

Just outside the Morgan Hill Library, visitors can view El Toro hill and enjoy the many hiking trails that surround the City of Morgan Hill. When families enter Morgan Hill Library Trusty Trails, HikerBot will introduce them to local plants and animals through fun, interactive early learning activities. Children can enter through the marquee with…

The soon-to-open National Museum of Public Housing in Chicago, located in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, is the first cultural institution in the U.S. dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories of public housing residents. A key exhibit, the Historic Apartments, allows visitors to step into recreated homes from 1938 to…

The Children’s Discovery Museum plans to open a new “From the Farm to a Healthy Me” exhibit in 2026. The Normal Town Council approved a contract with Ravenswood Studio to fabricate and install the exhibit, allowing offsite work to begin while onsite demolition or relocation of existing installations is set for completion by the end…