Qualla: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis/ Photo credit Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The first thing you see is the Brachiosaurus. A family of them, adult and juvenile, their sculpted forms climbing into the front of the building as if the museum walls cannot contain what lives inside. They are physiologically accurate to current paleontological knowledge, created by sculptor Gary Staab and painted by Brian Cooley, and they announce immediately that this is not a place where children are told to keep their hands to themselves. The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the largest children's museum on Earth, five floors and over 130,000 artifacts designed around a single philosophy: touch everything. Founded in 1925 by a woman who visited Brooklyn and came home determined to build something bigger, it has been ranked the best children's museum in the United States by both Child and Parents magazines. The New York Times called it "the gold standard of museums for children."

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis-wp/dp4d-the-childrens-museum-of-indianapolis-where-dinosau-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls: From a Carriage House to a Mansion https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Mary Stewart Carey owned the Stewart-Carey Glass Company and a conviction that Indianapolis children deserved a museum of their own. After visiting the Brooklyn Children's Museum in 1924, she enlisted the Progressive Teacher's Association and local civic leaders, and in 1925 the ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis-wp/dp4d-the-childrens-museum-of-indianapolis-where-dinosau-from-a-carriage-house-to-a-mansion.mp3 0:06 2 full The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls: A Carousel That Survived a Century https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis/ Photo credit Miyin2, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the fourth floor, a Dentzel carousel spins to the music of a rare Wurlitzer style 146-B Military Band Organ. The carousel's hand-carved animal figures were originally installed in 1917 at White City Amusement Park in what is now Broad Ripple Park. The museum restored and reins...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis-wp/dp4d-the-childrens-museum-of-indianapolis-where-dinosau-a-carousel-that-survived-a-century.mp3 0:06 3 full The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls: Sixty-Five Million Years Ago, Indoors https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis/ Photo credit Volkan Yuksel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Dinosphere plunges visitors into the late Cretaceous period through sound and light that simulate a day 65 million years ago. The exhibit houses one of the largest displays of juvenile and family dinosaur fossils in the country, including Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Gorgosaur...

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]]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/p/4/d/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis-wp/dp4d-the-childrens-museum-of-indianapolis-where-dinosau-sixty-five-million-years-ago-indoors.mp3 0:06 4 full The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Where Dinosaurs Crash Through the Walls: Children Who Changed the World https://qualla.com/the-children-s-museum-of-indianapolis/ Photo credit IndyTaylor, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Power of Children gallery on the third floor tells the stories of Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, Ryan White, and Malala Yousafzai through historically accurate, immersive environments. Frank's Amsterdam hiding place is recreated; Bridges' New Orleans schoolroom is reconstructed. F...

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