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Oct 18, 2024 - The Strong publishes and co-publishes books that illuminate its collecting and interpretative activities and advance the study of play.

Use pinecones and other natural materials to create an adorable friend.

Sep 4, 2025

Join us in the Play Lab throughout the summer to explore weekly activities featuring a wide array of Spin Master toys and products! Each week will spotlight a...

Visit the Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden during Tropical Escape to experience an island getaway right here in Rochester, NY! Enjoy bright colors, tropical...

The Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden is closed today.

I am a self-professed nerd. I blame (or should I say credit?) my parents, whose family vacation plans alternated visits to educational destinations such as...

I am going to visit the ESL Digital Worlds: Level Up exhibit at The Strong National Museum of Play! I will take the stairs or elevator with my adult to the...

Find answers to many of the frequently asked questions about Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden at The Strong.

Show off your engineering skills and have a blast playing with and assembling Meccano products.

Video games first entered the home in the early 1970s as inventors, programmers, and designers developed new ways to play with a television.

Listen to a story and meet your favorite characters! Each week of the summer will feature a new book and new friend to meet. This week features Cookie Mouse....

Be transported to another universe at The Strong! Dress as your favorite family-friendly science-fiction character. Meet and take photos with costumers from...

Jan 9, 2026 - The National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong, established in 1998, recognizes toys that have inspired creative play & enjoyed popularity over a sustained period.

Beep beep! Explore various vehicles that help us get from one place to the next.

The histories of tabletop games and video games are deeply woven together. Analog and digital games often share similar mechanics (such as experience points)...

Visit the Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden during Tropical Escape to experience an island getaway right here in Rochester, NY! Enjoy bright colors, tropical...

Jul 16, 2024 - The Strong names high-adventure ropes course Ralph Wilson Skyline Climb in Honor of Ralph Wilson’s legacy.

Join us in the Play Lab throughout the summer to explore weekly activities featuring a wide array of Spin Master toys and products! Each week will spotlight a...

Explore how circuits work. Create your own functioning circuit out of play-doh!

The Ouija board as we know it today was patented in Baltimore in the year 1890. Its development and success were closely tied to the rise of the American...

Sep 10, 2025 - The Strong’s Woodbury School staff employs a Reggio Emilia-inspired approach to curriculum that encourages students to delve deeply into topics that...

Join The Strong throughout February to celebrate Black History Month with renowned theatrical performances (see additional entry for February 6) and a...

Oct 13, 2025

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with The Strong! Decorate Your Own Red Envelope, Play Lab Decorate a red envelope with good luck and good wishes for the New Year!...

Released in 1994, the PC-FX was a 32-bit home video game console developed by NEC and Hudson Soft. The PC-FX was preceded by the TurboDuo (PC Engine Duo in...

Enjoy a meet and greet with a famous Hasbro or National Toy Hall of Fame character.

Listen to a story and meet your favorite characters! Each week of the summer will feature a new book and new friend to meet. This week features Cookie Mouse....

Wegmans Super Kids Market is back and better than ever! Join us for the ribbon cutting on the newly renovated exhibit at 10 a.m. The renovations will include...

Read our comprehensive 2020 Annual Report For The Strong Museum of Play. Learn about 2018 highlights, grants, supporters, and more.

Head out to the Hasbro Game Park for a bubble party!

The Strong offers unpaid, competitive internship opportunities for students interested in history and museums.

Inducted: 2024 Simulations are some of the oldest forms of video games, but few have had the popularity, influence, or staying power of SimCity. The germ of...

Your donation to The Strong National Museum of Play is the first step in leveraging the power of play to change lives.

Put your LEGO-building skills to the test this week in the Play Lab. Construct a LEGO zip line for LEGO characters to zip down!

By Adam Nedeff, Researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History It was a bona fide institution for over a decade on NBC, a phoenix of a game that...

People have played on this spot for centuries. Through its outdoor exhibit Play Happened Here, The Strong celebrates the individuals who have lived here and...

Create a work of art using bricks and paint. Make prints using bricks creating a fun image in the Play Lab all week long!

Learn about Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets and design your own Muppet-inspired puppet!

Head out to the Hasbro Game Park for a bubble party!

Make your way to the entrance of Reading Adventureland for a meet and greet with the Berenstain Bears!

Put on a puppet show with hand-crafted intergalactic friends and foes!

Learn about campfires with the Sago Mini Pretend Campfire Activity Pack.

Create your own tabletop pinball machine at the Strong National Museum of Play! Led by Ben t. Matchstick of The Cardboard Teck Instantute, learn how to...

The museum will open at 10 a.m. and close at 4 p.m. today.

The Strong National Museum of Play invites families with vision disabilities to a special Blind and Low Vision Family Night. During this exclusive evening,...

Calling the littlest ghouls, ghosts, and goblins! Come in costume and trick-or-treat for prizes with popular storybook characters.

Learn about percussion instruments and make your own drum from recycled materials!

Veteran game designer Don Daglow recently gave the International Center for the History of Electronic Games a collection of design documents, early drafts of...

Gather your friends and enjoy an evening of play exclusively for college students! Explore more than a city block of interactive exhibits, play your way...

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 For Immediate Release Shane Rhinewald, 585-410-6365, srhinewald@museumofplay.org Did you know that the Wright Brothers were...

The holiday season is once again upon us. With seasonal songs filling the airwaves and retailers decorated with all that sparkles, I am amazed at how the...

Create pieces of art with nothing more than pieces of fabric! From portraits, to landscapes, to silly creations, you can make a masterpiece with nothing more...

Inducted Year: 1998 Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all played with marbles made of stone or polished nuts. Shakespeare mentioned marbles in his play...

Enjoy story time and a meet and greet with Corduroy the Bear.

On September 4th, the video game industry lost a true pioneer. Bill Kunkel, founder of Electronic Games magazine and longtime video game journalist, passed...

An interdisciplinary publication of The Strong, the American Journal of Play is a forum for discussing the history, science, & culture of play.

Cowabunga! Explore these rad toys from the 80s and 90s to celebrate the final leg of the National Toy Hall of Fame Eras Tour. This week highlights Uno, Cabbage...

In 1970, the movie Patton became a top-grossing film of the year, earned eight Academy Awards, and starred George C. Scott as the brilliant, eccentric World...

Try a variety of bubble blowing techniques and fill the park with bubbles!

Enjoy story time and a meet and greet with Rainbow Fish.

Enjoy live fish feedings by museum experts.

This week of camp is sold out. Join us for a week of slime, kinetic sand, LEGOs, and more. Investigate the math, science, and technology behind these popular...

Listen to a story and meet your favorite characters! Each week of the summer will feature a new book and new friend to meet. This week features Bruce the Bear....

The Strong is a highly interactive, collections-based museum devoted to the history and exploration of play.

Visit the Play Lab to learn how roller bridges are built and construct your own model.

Refine your aim during Nerf Blaster target practice.

Modified Butterfly Garden Schedule for Annual Maintenance Butterfly garden closed Monday, September 25 to Friday, September 29 Butterfly garden opens at 1 p.m....

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

View hundreds of blue morpho butterflies as they flutter about the garden and take pictures as they land on colorful holiday ornaments during Morpho Magic....

Create treasured memories for years to come by celebrating a special occasion at The Strong.

Use natural colors and objects of nature, like leaves and sticks, to paint your masterpiece!

Inducted Year: 2018 John Madden Football redefined sports video games. In 1988, Electronic Arts (EA) was all but ready to throw in the towel on making American...

Join local artisan Ronnie Reitter (Seneca Nation, Wolf Clan) for a 45-minute educational, hands-on workshop to explore the art and importance of corn to the...

Inducted: 2025 A dark, medieval world filled with peculiar technology and Lovecraftian creatures. Quake was a first-person shooter built with the mouse in...

Enjoy Daniel Tiger: A Grr-ific Exhibit and build a block castle for the royal family; craft your own puppet and then put on a show to explore what emotions you...

Watch architects, engineers, artisans, and students compete to design and build giant structures made entirely from full cans of food in the Adams Atrium....