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Exhibits » Level 2
Eye to Eye: Step into giant eyeballs and peer through their lenses to understand the eye's anatomy and function and experience impairments such as blindness, glaucoma and other visual conditions. Visit a kid-size eye clinic and pretend to be an ophthalmologist or patient. Perform eye surgery on a gator. Peek through magical masks for a glimpse of how a hawk, honey bee or a catfish sees its surroundings. Wander through a walkway of optical illusions and perceptions. Sight and match famous eyes, read Braille and more. Little Sav-A-Center: Shop in pint-size grocery store complete with cash registers, grocery items, frozen foods, a deli, bakery, and flower shop. You can be the shopper, the cashier, or the stock clerk.
Kids' Café: All kids have an appetite for learning. Be the chef, wait staff or dinner guest in a five-star, role-play café.
WWL-TV KidWatch: Deliver the news. You can be a news anchor, reporter, director or meteorologist. Bubbles: Stand inside a giant bubble and create bubbles of all sizes. Look for the rainbow of colors and discover what makes a bubble pop!
First Adventures: Even little ones have a place to climb, crawl and explore in an enclosed area filled with brightly colored toys, games, books, a pretend kitchen, and more.
Art Trek: Create a one-of-a-kind work of art. Explore painting, collage, sculpture and more with changing daily art encounters in a working art studio. Cajun Cottage: Play house in a Cajun Cottage complete with a kitchen, fireplace, front porch, and costumes. Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, A Hands-On Exhibit! Enter a world of imagination and fantasy where children and families can explore and discover new adventures together in “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Hands-On Exhibit,” on display at the Louisiana Children’s Museum as a gift from the Pittsburg Children’s Museum. The traveling exhibit helps visitors understand the importance of caring adults and the role of play in children’s lives through a full-sized facsimile of the celebrated neighborhood. The 2,000 square-foot exhibit includes three main sections: Mister Rogers’ Television House, Neighborhood Trolley and Neighborhood of Make-Believe. The Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood exhibit was originally funded through a generous grant from the Grable Foundation and was developed by the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum with the support and assistance of Family Communications Inc., the producers of the legendary Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Television show.
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Port of New Orleans: Pilot a tugboat and navigate a barge down the
mighty Mississippi. Captain a cruise ship. Use a gantry crane to position
and load cargo from a container ship onto a big rig truck. Serve a hearty
make believe meal in the galley. Use an interactive global map to trace
origins of cargo and their shipping routes and explore how steel, coffee,
natural rubber, cotton, lumber, sugar, rice, and other cargo are imported
and exported the world over.
