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• The Spurlock Museum
  The Spurlock Museum is located on the campus of the University of Illinois. The Spurlock Museum offers five fantastic galleries all housing exhibits representing different people, cultures and geographic areas from around the world.  These include: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia and Africa. Ancient Greece and Rome, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania. Europe, American Indian Cultures of North and South America. Located in the Campbell Gallery are special exhibits offering unique programs, tours and special events. Located on ground level of the Museum you will find Workman Gallery of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures, Laubin Gallery of American Indian Cultures, Central Core Gallery, Campbell Gallery and Zahn Learnin Center. On the upper level you can see: The Workman Gallery of Asian Cultures, Faletti Gallery of African Cultures and the Leavitt Gallery of Middle Eastern Cultures. Now thru May, 2009 the Spurlock Museum special exhibit is Children Just Like Me giving the children who visit the Museum a chance to learn about diversity of World cultures by meeting young people like themselves who live in different countries around the globe. Featuring hands-on exhibits teaching the children regardless of where they live how much they all have in common. The Spurlock Museum offers something for people of all ages, you will enjoy a visit to this fantastic Museum.
   

• Prairie Farm
  Prairie Farm is a great place to share family fun. Located on Kirby Ave in Champaign, Illinois Prairie Farm is open from Memorial Day thru Labor Day. Prairie Farm is re-created from a turn of the century farm replica complete with barns, farmhouse, pastures, flower gardens and ponds. Special residents of Prairie Farm include your traditional farm favorites such as: cows, chickens, sheep, pigs, horses, goats and geese. There is no admission to Prairie Farm, but donations are appreciated to help feed all of these fantastic animals. Visitor's can make special arrangements for Farm tours and birthday parties. During the summer months visitors can enjoy horse drawn trolley rides offered during weekdays. Besides birthday parties other special events at Prairie Farm includes: Sundays On The Farm, Flashlight Scavenger Hunts and even a Petting Area- where all visitors are encouraged to wear closed-toe shoes like boots or tennis shoes. You wouldn't want one of the curious animals to nibble on your toes. Prairie Farm also offers some educational classes and programs that include: Zoo Keepers, Little Oinkers, Pee Wee Farmers, All About Horses, Farmhands and Barnyard Fun Camp. There is plenty of fun activities at Prairie Farm to keep the whole family busy. On your next visit to Champaign be sure to stop at Prairie Farm.
   

• Krannert Art Museum And Kinkead Pavilion
  The Krannert Art Museum is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign opened its doors in 1961, establishing a permanent home for the University's existing collection of fine art. In 1988 a new wing was dedicated, the Kinkead Pavilion almost doubling the buildings size to 48,000 square feet making the Krannert Art Museum the second largest art museum in the state of Illinois. A Huge part of the Museum's permanent collection featuring over 9,000 works of art is displayed in ten galleries ranging from ancient Egyptian art to Contemporary photographs. In addition to the impressive permanent art collection the Museum displays 12 to 15 changing exhibits each year, bringing works of art from other museums and collections nationally and internationally to the community.  The Krannert Art Museum strives to educate the public about a range of art work from all periods, providing an instructional laboratory for its students and instructors this process drives the Museum's collection vision. Also the Krannert Art Museum welcomes a wide variety of guests including the faculty, staff and students of the University of Illinois, the residents of Urbana and Champaign communities along with the people of Central Illinois and local schools. The Krannert Art Museum welcomes over 132,000 visitors annually. The Krannert Art Museum offers fun filled events for children and the entire family with hands on art projects, demonstrations, music, dance and storytelling. The Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion offer plenty to see and do you wont be disappointed when you visit the Museum and the Pavilion.
   

• Orpheum Children's Science Museum
  The Orpheum Children's Science Museum is a must if you are visiting Champaign with children. The Orpheum Children's Museum is located on the north end of downtown Champaign. There is plenty to see and explore at the Orpheum Children's Science Museum there are several exciting exhibits both inside and outside of  the OCSM. Experience hands on exhibits outside in the Dino-Dig area here young visitors are given a pair of safety goggles and some digging tools for a chance to uncover Dinosaur fossils. Grab your tools and start digging, there are replicas of a full size Deinonychus and a young Tyrannosaurs Rex in the Dino-Dig area. Children will have a blast using the Whisper Dishes these giant sound devices send silent messages across the courtyard perfect for sending a message to a family member or your friends. Other fun and interactive exhibits include: a 10-foot water flume, rock grotto, tornado exhibit and many more. Be sure and stop by the Critter Corner and see the growing critter family here you will have the opportunity to see: a corn snake, box turtles, three Australian  Bearded Dragons, even a rose haired Tarantula and a Madagascan hissing Cockroach.
  
  The indoor exhibits offer plenty of hands-on exhibits the newest addition to OCSM is Castle Workalot set back in the Medieval world with castles, kings, queens and knights along with simple machines. Here our little guests will have fun exploring, creating and playing with simple machines and building structures in a real castle. Other exciting areas include the: Miniature Castle- is complete with a drawbridge, moat and a dragon's lair. As the royal engineer you can move water with the use of gears, levers, wheels and pulleys. On your visit here you can re-create yourself as a castle character and take rule of this castle. Give the Carpenter's Workshop a try- where you can build a strong and sturdy bridge that reach the royal steps. Pulley Pull- put your muscles to the test and try lifting different weights made from flour bags and see how pulleys make lifting much easier. The Royal Dining and Kitchen- Offers plenty of simple machines waiting for you to explore that are used in everyday castle life. Such as the hearth used for cooking meals on and experiment with pulleys, levers and gears used in everyday tasks. Don't miss the Blacksmith Shop- here you will discover even the smallest of carpenters can build with several types of tools and take part in many different trades and jobs that are important to life in a castle.
  
  A couple of other exhibits you will enjoy is Waterworks- here you can measure sand while you play in the sand area, learn about ground water pollution and how rivers flow or relax and read from our educational books. Get your hands wet with a visit to the S.S. Ackermann Tugboat exhibit. Set on the Mississippi River take a trip and explore the Mississippi River with your own tugboat.
   

• Champaign County Historical Museum
  Champaign County Historical Museum in Champaign is housed in one of the region's oldest standing commercial buildings formerly known as the historic Cattle Bank. The Champaign County Historical Museum is  dedicated to preserving the history of Champaign County.  One of the permanent exhibits featured at the Museum is a beautiful collection of  over fifty handmade quilts many dating back from the mid to late nineteenth century. These quilts show popular quilting patterns and techniques making this a one of a kind collection. Along with a working 1919 Cretor popcorn wagon formerly owned by Henry Sansone. This famous Popcorn Wagon has popped corn for three generations of local residents of Champaign. The Popcorn Truck is still used today by the Museum for special events or The Popcorn Truck will make surprise appearances for downtown events. Also featured at the Champaign County Historical Museum are special exhibits that change seasonally. 
   

• Early American Museum
  The Early American Museum is located in Mahomet, Illinois This two level facility is near Lake of the Woods Park. If you are interested in the history of Central Illinois you have come to the right place. Featured at the Early American Museum is a large exhibit called Life on the Prairie- dating the activity of Native Americans and early Europeans for this region. There is a replica of a traditional Blacksmith's shop and an original John Deere Buggy. For our younger visitor's be sure to visit the Discovery Room where kids can experience first hand early prairie life, use a blacksmith's tool and drill through a bar of iron, explore the wigwam and see what horsepower does or camp out in the Civil War tent and put your fingers to the test and try the telegraph keys.