Children’s Museum Philadelphia - Please Touch Museum Skip to primary navigation VISIT Come play! Buy Tickets Hours Monday: Closed Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday: 1st, 4th, and 5th Sundays of the month: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 2nd & 3rd Sundays of the month: 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Modified Operating Hours: April 29 — Closing early. Open from 9 AM to 3:30 PM. May 6 — Closing early. Open from 9 AM to 3:30 PM. Holiday Hours Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Open to visitors President’s Day: Open to visitors Memorial Day: Closed Independence Day: Closed Labor Day: Closed Wednesday Before Thanksgiving: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving: Closed Christmas Eve: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Christmas Day: Closed New Year’s Eve: Special event hours New Year’s Day: Closed BUY TICKETS Earth Day Celebration Saturday, April 25 Dig into nature-inspired play, learn about recycling and conservation, and discover small steps we can take to make a big difference together. Sponsored by Essential Utilities. Buy Tickets for 4/25 View Schedule for 4/25 Book Faire Presented by: Saturday, May 9 Join us for Book Faire, a free Community Day celebrating the joy of reading! Families can enjoy storytimes, roaming fairytale characters, and a giveaway of 6,000 gently used books provided by BookSmiles. Sponsored by Way Past Books, BookSmiles, and TD. View Schedule for 5/9 Members‑Only Morning Sunday, May 10 Museum members only: Explore the Museum from 9‑11 AM before we open our doors to the general public! Special for May, members can enjoy a grab-and-go Mother’s Day breakfast from 9-10:30 AM while supplies last. Buy Tickets for 5/10 View Schedule for 5/10 Play Without Boundaries Sunday, May 17 A sensory-friendly morning designed for guests with sensory sensitivities, autism, and other disabilities, along with their families. This program is reserved for guests with pre-registered tickets only; the Museum will open to guests with general admission and member tickets at 11 AM. Play Without Boundaries is made possible by a generous grant from the Hamilton Family Charitable Trust, with additional funding from the Wawa Foundation, the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, and the Ladies Aid Society of the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Buy Tickets for 5/17 View Schedule for 5/17 MORE PTM EVENTS Field Trips and Group Visits Looking to bring your class to Please Touch Museum? Book a guided field trip for your students to explore engineering, mathematical concepts, and more, as they learn through play — or explore the Museum on your own! Learn more about field trips to Please Touch Museum Membership Matters! Discover all the exclusive benefits that come with a year-long membership to PTM. BECOME A MEMBER When we say, “Play for All,” we mean it. Learn the many ways we work to make PTM accessible to all families. Ready to Play? BUY A TICKET Manage Consent To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Preferences Preferences The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Statistics Statistics The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Marketing Marketing The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes View preferences {title} {title} {title}