Please Touch Museum

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The Please Touch Museum gives the following description:

Since 1976, Please Touch Museum has been the Children's Museum of Philadelphia. Our museum was the first in the nation whose target audience was families with children seven and younger. We have grown into one of the best children's museums in the nation, have become experts in play and have had our programs for underserved families in the region nationally recognized. Our mission to enrich the lives of children by creating learning opportunities through play, enables us to lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning and cultural awareness.

Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles

Museum Mission: Please Touch Museum enriches the lives of children by creating learning opportunities through play.

Vision: Please Touch Museum’s vision is to create meaningful interactive play-based experiences within the museum and beyond our walls for all young children and their families that are nationally recognized for their lasting impact.

Guiding Principles: Please Touch Museum strives to reflect our guiding principles in everything we do.

• Inclusive: We are dedicated to serving the varied interests and abilities of all young children and those with whom they share the experience.
• Visitor Focused: We are dedicated to creating a safe and clean environment, and assuring the highest quality play experience for all our visitors.
• Community Focused: We are dedicated to partnering with the communities that surround us and using our capabilities, strengths and expertise to improve the broader regional community.
• Collaborative: We are dedicated to working with other organizations who share our vision of early childhood development as being a cornerstone to lifelong learning.
• Stewardship: We are dedicated to being responsible stewards of our mission, people, resources, collections and historically significant home.

Statement on the Value of Play

At Please Touch Museum, we encourage children to play and grow through the myriad of experiences we offer. We know that play provides the foundation for basic life skills such as building relationships, cooperation, negotiation and compromise as well as providing opportunities for children to find out who they are and what they enjoy doing. Play offers an emotional outlet, develops the imagination and creativity, and cultivates problem-solving skills.

With young children playing daily at Please Touch Museum, we see that it is a process-driven way of creating, exploring and investigating the surrounding environment with adults, other children or by themselves. Play is a fun and imaginative way to become familiar with the world we live in.

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