Special Exhibits

January 26 – May 11

Inspired by the factory tour segments from the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood television series, CCM’s newest exhibit, How People Make Things, tells the story about the ideas, processes, and technologies that go into making favorite childhood objects.

This exhibit offers hands-on activities with real factory tools and machines to create objects through molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. Use a die cutter to make a box and a horse, and operate a three-axis mill to carve a block of wax. Assemble parts of a real golf cart, and race a robotic arm to see who can assemble a replica of the trolley from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood the fastest!

Mold pourable wax and match products to the mold from which they were made. Play the People in Your Neighborhood, using audio clues and stories to help you match objects to the people who made them.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the world of invention and imagination!

Created by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Family Communications, Inc. (FCI), the producer of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE).

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