Explore Our Exhibits:
Where Play Comes to Life

Experience 20,000 square feet of playful exhibits where families create, explore, and discover new adventures around every corner.

Permanent Exhibits

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Fundamentally Food

Climb tractors, milk a dairy cow, load delivery trucks, shop a bustling grocery store, and cook pretend meals together. Through playful farm-to-table fun, explore where our food comes from, how it moves, and how food helps families grow strong and healthy.

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Gateway to the World

Travel the globe through hands-on play. Guide trains across continents, launch rockets to planets in our solar system, and climb a two-story Earth. Along the way, explore geography, movement, and the ways our world is connected, from the ground beneath their feet to far beyond the sky.

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Leaping into Learning

Step into a magical forest! Cast your rod, catch colorful fish, and slip behind a waterfall without getting wet. Climb the treehouse, spot forest animals, and let little ones explore a cozy space filled with bubbles, a play car, and a house just their size.

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Let Your Creativity Flow

Create a masterpiece on the paint wall, shape and reshape sand into living landscapes, and watch digital topography shift beneath your hands. Create your own avatar and share an act of kindness, adding your voice to a growing world of creativity, connection, and care.

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Step Up to Science

Experiment with light and sound through playful, hands-on activities — creating shadows, exploring color, and making vibrations move. Discover how waves work, how science and creativity connect, and how experimenting leads to exciting, sometimes surprising results.

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Tools for Solutions

Connect make-believe wires and pipes in the Construction House, build skyscrapers, and design a city of the future with blocks. Along the way, explore engineering, problem-solving, and how structures respond to forces.

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Take a Look Inside

Check out the Museum's current and upcoming featured exhibits! Click below for more info.

Five permanent exhibits fill the main floor — plus the CMA stage, art studio, and a sensory-friendly room.

  • Fundamentally Food Ages 10 months – 8 years

    Experience the farm-to-table journey — pick produce, climb on the John Deere tractor, milk Buttercup the cow, drive the delivery truck, shop in a mini Publix grocery store, and dine in a play café.

  • Gateway to the World Ages 10 months – 8 years

    Climb through the layers of the Earth on a two-story globe, explore six continent tables, launch rockets toward the planets, and discover geology and geography through hands-on play.

  • Leaping into Learning Ages 0 – 5 years

    A magical forest designed for the museum's youngest explorers — with a toddler house, bubble-and-light wall, magnetic fishing pond, treehouse, and puppet theatre.

  • Let Your Creativity Flow Ages 10 months – 8 years

    Release your inner artist at the paint wall, build imaginative worlds at the virtual reality sand tables, and catch daily storytimes, dance parties, and science demos on the CMA stage.

  • Tools For Solutions Ages 10 months – 8 years

    Build, engineer, and discover — from the interconnected ball machine using six simple machines to the construction house, Atlanta city blocks, and the Norilla earthquake design challenge.

Mezzanine

Take the piano stairs or elevator to the Mezzanine and play in Step Up to Science, the Science Bar, and Jane's Innovation Station. Explore and experiment with the forces and phenomena that make our world wonderful.

Hover over a pulse point and a 360° image of the area will open. Click, hold, and drag inside the viewer to look around. Alternatively, try the Walk-Through Tour below to move from room to room.

Children's Museum of Atlanta floor plan