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Exploration Station

Ages 0–9
1095 Perry St, Bourbonnais, IL 60914, USA
Photo: Bourbonnais Township Park District, via btpd.org

About this place

Exploration Station is an interactive children's museum in Bourbonnais, IL featuring hands-on exhibits designed primarily for ages 2-8, though welcoming visitors of all ages. The 10,000 square foot facility in Perry Farm Park offers exhibits including a flight simulator, puppet theater, pet clinic, market, soda shop, diner, air tubes, S.T.E.A.M. learning lab, auto repair shop, music area, critter creek, and a newly opened Storybook Forest exhibit with slides and lookout towers. The museum serves a 65-mile radius and has welcomed over half a million visitors from across the United States and around the world.

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