Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall!

Wow! It has almost been a whole month since Please Touch Museum opened the doors to our new home! We would love to have you visit and get to experience play at Please Touch Museum first hand. There are lots of great exhibits, activities and programs for you to enjoy. For more information on hours, parking, services and amenities, please check out our website at www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
Don't forget to play today!!!

Play Quotes!!!

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
--Heraclitus, Greek philosopher

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
--Carl Jung, Psychologist

Chutes and Ladders

Milton Bradley Company started manufacturing the board game “Chutes and Ladders” in 1943. It was a variation on the popular international game “Snakes and Ladders” and produced in a variety of styles and themes from various countries. The American version of Chutes and Ladders is perhaps the most popular and still remains popular today as one of the first board games young children are introduced to. Manufactured by Hasbro. PTM # 1985.124.2

Please Touch Museum Golden Ticket Contest!!

Check out our videos featuring info on our Golden Ticket Contest for the opening of Please Touch Museum, Memorial Hall at Fairmount Park
on October 18, 2008!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usrXMzKvJVQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAOS7Z8eHg

More info can be found on our website:
http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/

PTM is on the move!!

Please Touch Museum is going to be moving very soon!

Monday, September 1, 2008 is our very last day at our current home at 210 N. 21st Street. Please come join us to help us say goodbye one last time...

What will happen next for PTM???

We are moving to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park! After years of renovations and exhibit design and more, PTM is moving to its new home with all new exhibits--and a historic carousel! There is lots in store and so much to see, you will love to learn through play at Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall!

Check out more on our website http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/

Beatles "Flip Your Wig" Game

Milton Bradley introduced the Beatles game "Flip Your Wig" in 1964 and got their foot in the door of the Beatles music craze. It originally sold for $2.98. A simple game...it featured 3 Beatles picture cards, 3 Beatles instrument cards, 3 Beatles signatures cards and 12 gold record cards. On the game board, you rolled the die to pick a card. Working your way around the game board with your mover piece (a head shot photo) of John, Paul, George or Ringo--the goal was to get one each of the three specialty cards before the other player. PTM# 1981.27.6

Play Quotes!!

Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.
--James L. Hymes, Jr., child development specialist, author

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. --Plato, Greek philosopher