The last flight from The Children's Museum of Indianapolis to China departs September 9, 2018 as the highly popular exhibit at the world's largest children's museum closes to make way for a new culture.

For three years, families have been able to immerse themselves in Chinese culture as they explored Take Me There:® China.   

In one of the largest exhibits about contemporary China ever produced in the U.S., children and their grownups have “flown” over the Great Wall of China, “landed” in Beijing and embarked on a journey through modern life in the world's fastest-growing nation.

Visitors explored daily life and the celebrations of Chinese families through art, music, food, tea culture, calligraphy, ancient Chinese medicine, and the preservation of giant pandas. There's only a week and a half to see live performances and demonstrations by Chinese artists demonstrating martial arts, music, calligraphy, shadow puppetry and much more.

What's the next destination, you ask? Museum developer Melissa Pederson says, “Well, not to be all mysterious and secretive…but it's still a mysterious secret.” 

The China exhibit is just one of a series of Take Me There exhibits that explore far-way places. We started with Take Me There: Egypt in 2009, and then China took its place in 2014. “The new exhibit will have all the things that make Take Me There special. The airplane will still be there to whisk your family away to see the new country. There will be family homes, a restaurant, outdoor environments, and arts and language activities. Most importantly, our new Take Me There experience will do what the China and Egypt experiences have done so well—provide an opportunity for your family to explore the differences and similarities between our culture and the cultures of others so that we can build a better understanding of people from other societies and traditions,” said Pederson. 

Stay tuned for information about the new country to be explored.

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