Come on an adventure with Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat where they live! Insatiably curious, George lives to find new things to discover, touch, spill and chew. You can learn like George – through direct experiences and problem solving as you explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on play.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IS CLOSED ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 AND TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7.

Meet Curious George in person every Wednesday from 11:30 am - Noon and Saturday at 2:00 - 2:30 pm!

Exhibit Features Include:

• Apartment Building - Move Curious George on pulleys from window to window, climb the fire escape and go inside to play with color, light and shadow.
• Sidewalk Produce Stand - Be the customer or salesperson and explore shape, sorting, weighing and counting with fruits and vegetables.
• Construction Site - Construct different structures and use a conveyor belt to move large foam blocks overhead.
• Mini Golf - Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering and putt through three holes of mini golf.
• Space Rocket - Climb into the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure!
• Farm - Use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs and windmills.
• Museum Within the Museum -Learn new things about Curious George and his creators H.A. and Margret Rey, and learn of their escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript.

The exhibit is based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions airing on PBS KIDS®.

Over the course of one summer, emerging artists or artist-teams in the Museum's annual Tough Art residency develop a work of art that preserves their intention and vision while being responsive to, and able to withstand, the hands-on interaction with Children’s Museum visitors. Artists work with visitors, museum professionals, outside experts and each other to prototype and evaluate their pieces on the Museum floor. The Tough Art annual exhibition showcases the artists’ pieces at the Children’s Museum.

The Tough Art residency program connects emerging artists to the audience and resources of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Local media sponsor for the 2010 Tough Art exhibition is Pop City. The exhibition is also supported by a grant from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The four, original interactive artworks created for the 2010 Tough Art program are below. Click on the aritsts' names to read their bios:

Rubaerophone by Blaine Siegel
In a knot of pipes and a maze of air ducts, you choose what action, sound or motion happens next. It’s a guaranteed surprise!

The Beast by Nova Jiang
Feed this life-sized wooden cow colorful balls and see how its digestive system poops them out.

Temperamental Stairs by Agnes Bolt and Arthur Jones
Borrowing shrieks, giggles and moments of abandon and sadness from the daily activities of the Museum, this piece uses sounds to create new play possibilities on a central Museum staircase.

Motion Machine, two channel interactive video, 2010 by Amanda Long
As you step into the light and move your body, your motion triggers a 7 second recording which appears in red, green and blue staggered in time. Try leaping, jumping, skipping, somersaults, cartwheels, dancing - any movement - to see the dynamic rhythms your body creates in motion.

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Earth Forces by Ned Kahn

Check out these five interactive art works where you can set in motion the turbulent forces at work in avalanches, storms, underground movement and other earth-shattering occurences. Glass beads, garnet sand, magnetic sand and glass spheres move in beautiful and unique ways as they flow, attract, make patterns, sink and float to demonstrate the types of movements that happen on a larger scale to reshape the earth.

Artist Ned Kahn also created the Museum's facade wind sculpture, Articulated Cloud, with Koning Eizenberg Architecture, and the piece Rock Music.