Open every day of the week during the summer months, the Children's Museum of New Hampshire provides dozens of different activities and hands-on exhibits for kids, including the Yellow Submarine, the Cocheco River System, Music Matrix & Sound Watch, Kaleidoscopic, First Impressions, Dino Detective, Build It Fly It, Cave Explorers, and the Art Gallery. The Build It, Fly It exhibit lets children use their creativity and learn more about aerodynamics as they build their own flying machine, while the Cave Explorers exhibit invites kids to find cave paintings, read glow-in-the-dark books, and draw their own glowing paintings.

6 Washington St, Dover, NH 03820, Phone: 603-742-2002

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