Get your wheels spinning!

Form meets at the intersection of function and play in the Children’s Museum’s new Wheels exhibit. Though we didn’t invent the wheel, we’ve certainly made it more fun with activities that include:

• Vehicle Track: Choose from 8 different wheeled vehicles and test your riding skills on an 80-foot oval track, including scooters, balance bikes, rickshaws, pump cars and more.

• 1970 Harley Davidson Chopper: Take an imaginary road trip on a vintage motorcycle.

• Build-a-Wheel: Build your own tire using wooden rims and bungee cords; then get it rolling on an inclined track.

• Spinning Wheels: Walk on a treadmill to activate a spinning tire sculpture overhead.

• Magnetic Car Park: Create fantastic vehicles using roller blade wheels and blocks embedded with magnets; then test your creation on a 37-foot bow-shaped course.

• Virtual Ride: Jump into the Museum’s Smart Car and take a virtual ride through the Museum via a specially created video that combines live action and stop motion animation.

• Giant Tire Sculpture: Explore and climb on 7-foot-high tires.

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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.