WOW! Children's Museum
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WOW! Children’s Museum is an interactive museum
Museum
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 located in Lafayette, Colorado
Lafayette, Colorado
The City of Lafayette is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 23,884 on 2005-07-01.- Geography :Lafayette is located at ....

. It was founded in 1996 and it aims to educate children in the areas of art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

s, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

s, life
Life
Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased , or else because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate...

, and other subjects through exhibits children can play with, touch, and discover.

Examples of exhibits include a pirate ship with a reading corner, a play house, a bank, a grocery store, a sand castle, a train village, dinosaurs, a science area, a music room, an arts room, party rooms, a stage, a dance floor, a traveling exhibit area, a snack area, and more.

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