TVA/Waterplay Dam
All ages love the water and the Water Play Dam is the perfect place to get a little wet. Originating at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, TN, the Water Play Dam has been a favorite of visitors since 1987 when the museum opened.

It has many learning possibilities by teaching about water power and electricity but also provides lessons on the historical use of waterways in Tennessee and America for commerce and travel. It has a working lock that demonstrates how canals and water are used to transport goods.

The addition of the railroad exhibit emphasizes the changes of travel and commerce from waterways to steam and a method of transporting goods across the country during the expansion West, and today.

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Safari Dreams Library
The Safari Dreams Library offers a variety of children’s books and quiet space to read. Storytelling is offered each week.

In addition to the wide variety of books available, the library also contains several exhibit panels devoted to a historical account of the Underground Railroad through Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The Underground Railroad facilitated the movement of slaves to northern states and ultimately into Canada. Learn about the local landmarks of the "conductors" of the railroad and explain how the topography and terrain of our region worked for and against the movement.

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WKID-TV
Look at the "behind the scenes' workings of a TV station. See mini tornado in the tornado machine that demonstrates how a tornado occurs. Children can also be a television anchor delivering the news or a meteorologist forecasting the weather. We have monitors in the room so children can see themselves on TV.

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Katie Ellen Coal Mine
The Katie Ellen Coal Mine holds much potential with classes about mining, coal, fuel, cave exploration, cave animals, and mining history. The Katie Ellen has tunnels for exploring that shows the impact of mining of the local areas.

Other topics are fossil fuels, layers of soil, and extinct animals - like dinosaurs. Children learn the difference between a renewable and non-renewable resource. They also relate the materials and resources from the earth to the practical uses in their lives and the impact mining continues to have on our region.

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Amazing Me
In the Amazing Me! Exhibit, a number of activities are offered including a Nutrition Rock Climb , a Circulation Loop, Hygiene Station, Food Pyramid, Exercise Bike, and the science cabinet that features different anatomical models like a life-size skeleton or a real human brain!

Learn all about your body inside and out during special programs with Mr. Stuffee!, a 140 pound, 7 foot doll. Mr. Stuffee's plush organs can be removed and children can lean what each organ does and how it connects to others. Please call for an appointment to meet Mr. Stuffee.

• Nutrition Rock Climb - visitors select foods to eat for breakfast and a snack. Then the mountain climber scales a peak to a height based on how much energy the foods selected would provide. A food pyramid shows children how learning to eat healthy can be fun.

• Circulation Loop - demonstrates how blood flows through the arteries and veins plus how the heart pumps the blood through the body.

• Exercise - An area discussing the benefits of an active life-style also features the heart through an exercise bicycle that visitors can ride on to see how exercise effects their heart rate.

• Hygiene - a magnifying lens gives visitors an up close view of what is on their hands - fingerprints, hair, freckles, maybe even some dirt! This area teaches how hand washing is an important part of good hygiene. Practice brushing a giant set of teeth and learn the importance of flossing.

• Operation table - role play as a surgeon while learning about different organs in the body with this large version of the popular child's game.

• Ophelia the bionic skeleton - one of only three skeletons in the world that displays mechanical replacement parts that can be added to the human body.

• Pin Wall - make an impression of your body on this 3-D wall.

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Fort Adventure & Theatre On Main
Have hands-on highly interactive fun at Fort Adventure. Children are encouraged to explore, build and play in our Fort Adventure facility which includes a slide, tunnels, climbing bars, and crawling spaces!

Join the fun and excitement of The Closet! This delightful exhibit is full of great dress-up clothes, boas, hats, costumes, and other dazzling sights. This one of a kind dress-up room is designed especially for the creative and bold.

The Theater on Main is the stage area. This area allows children to explore dance and song while having fun! Activities include karoke and dancercise.

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Tiny Town - Just for Preschool Age Children
The Tiny Town exhibit, developed for children up to age 5, features a miniature doll house donated to Hands On! by John L. McConnell, II. Hands-on activity in Tiny Town is emphasized with toys, developed especially for toddlers, to promote imitative, imaginative, and social play. Toddler-friendly doll houses, blocks, and alphabet letters are among other toys for these young visitors.

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KinderMart
This exhibit is a favorite exhibit for children of all ages. They learn how to be smart shoppers, budget money, add on the registers, and play grown-up in the grocery store. Many different types of food, including all-natural foods are available to help build an awareness of the cost/benefit analysis many shoppers make daily.

Push the kid-sized shopping carts around the store, make healthy choices, and then check out at the register! Learn about nutrition, good eating habits, and money management. Developing a nutritious diet on a limited budget shows children the necessity of smart shopping.

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Kids Bank & Credit Union
Kids Bank is excellent for children both young and old. This exhibit includes a children's ATM (which accepts special ATM cards and hands out fake money), teller machines, safe deposit boxes, money stained with an exploded dye pack, a large map featuring examples of currency from all over the world, a penny press with four unique Hands On! Museum designs, a "How tall are you in coins?" mural, a balance your budget scale, and money trivia round out this educational exhibit.

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Art Studio
Walk down the black light hallway into The Art Studio exhibit.

Visitors can participate in the changing monthly programs that showcase different artists and their art styles, create something on their own, or design smething new.

Let your imagination run wild!