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  • Digital Time Travel

    Digital Time Travel

    Seeing Fountain City through the Coffins’ eyes with augmented reality.

  • Indiana Youth Take On Health Science Roles During GSK Science in the Summer™

    Indiana Youth Take On Health Science Roles During GSK Science in the Summer™

    Free summer STEM enrichment programming to Indiana youth through GSK Science in the Summer and the Indiana State Museum.

  • New Cultural Landscape Study Nearing Completion for Culbertson Mansion

    New Cultural Landscape Study Nearing Completion for Culbertson Mansion

    This project enables the mansion's long-term preservation, management, while also enhancing the visitor experience

  • Quick Tips for a Fast Car

    Quick Tips for a Fast Car

    How to maximize your Pinewood Derby car's speed

  • Seeing Through the Eyes of an Artist

    Seeing Through the Eyes of an Artist

    Come learn about the artist who embodied Indianapolis: John Wesley Hardrick

  • Reconstructing One Man’s Road to Freedom

    Reconstructing One Man’s Road to Freedom

    Descendants piece together memories and research to share the story of William Bush

  • Drawn to Life

    Drawn to Life

    Meet the characters of Cardboard Storyland and the artist behind them

  • New 2025 Experiences Spark Creativity and Curiosity

    New 2025 Experiences Spark Creativity and Curiosity

    Our first two exhibits of 2025 provide immersive, one-of-a-kind experiences that center around our visitors

  • Haunting Holidays

    Haunting Holidays

    How Victorian England made ghost stories a holiday tradition

  • A Taste of the Holidays

    A Taste of the Holidays

    Bring L.S. Ayres' famous chicken velvet soup to your table this year!

  • New Experience Open at Angel Mounds

    New Experience Open at Angel Mounds

    Transformation highlights cosmological connections plus modern Native perspectives of the historical site

  • Taylor Swift or Gene Stratton-Porter?

    Taylor Swift or Gene Stratton-Porter?

    Who wrote it? Test your knowledge on these iconic female writers