Great Explorations the Children's Museum454

Great Explorations - winner of our 2008 and 2009 Parents' Picks award for best museum in the Tampa area - strives to stimulate learning through creativity, play and exploration.

The museum's permanent exhibit space is chock full of interactive displays that allow kids to role-play and step into grown-up worlds. They can shop for nutritious food in a child-sized market, experience the life as a firefighter, learn what it takes to be a veterinarian in a kid-oriented animal hospital, and more. Kids can also play with hands-on exhibits that teach scientific and other educational lessons.

Kids from kindergarten through grade 5 can take part in the museum's summer camp programs. Detailed class information and registration forms are available online.

Great Exploration's Early Learning Institute provides a fully licensed preschool program for ages two to five featuring low teacher to child ratio, state-of-the-art classrooms, and more. Call for additional details.

The museum also offers an after school program from 2:30pm-5:30pm featuring homework assistance and tutoring, arts and music enrichment, physical education and recreation, and more.