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Tennessee–Play and Learn at the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center (Clarksville)

In downtown Clarksville, TN, let your kids run wild in the lower level of the Customs House Museum. The main floor and upstairs will bore young kids, but downstairs you’ll find big bubble play things, a pretend grocery store, and (Xavier’s favorite) working train displays and a train table.
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Missouri–Dress the Part at Museum of Transportation Creation Station (St. Louis, MO)

Got my $1.50 worth! At Creation Station kids can color, build stuff, climb in a ship, dress up like a fireman or pilot, play with toy trains, planes, automobiles. So much fun.http://transportmuseumassociation.org/creation.html

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Missouri–All Aboard! at the Museum of Transportation (St. Louis, MO)

This place kept the kids and the adults happy. You get to actually climb on the trains and crawl through their bellies. Just pay attention to your kids so they don’t get hurt. A lot more fun than the name implies.http://transportmuseumassociation.org/plan.html

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Wyoming: Butch Cassidy and the Woman with Kid

Visitors to Wyoming Territorial Prison can view a selection of prisoner bios like this one of Butch Cassidy. Besides this famous outlaw, the prison held women and even children as young as twelve. Very interesting look at the history and culture of the wild west.
http://wyoparks.state.wy.us/Site/SiteInfo.asp?siteID=25

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Wyoming– Big Al, the Allosaurus, Peeks Over My Shoulder (Laramie, WY)

At the University of Wyoming in Laramie you can walk through a nice collection in a pretty dated museum. It did not bother me that everything seemed stuck in a time warp because it brought me back to my childhood. Read about Big Al’s incredible adventure at the museum or at this link:http://www.uwyo.edu/GeoMuseum/tour/alcoop.aspOr read the [...]

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Wyoming Territorial Prison

Prisons fascinate me. I’ve visited prisons around the world, including Robben Island in South Africa where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner for over twenty years. This one imprisoned Butch Cassidy. What would life be like when locked behind metal doors?

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Nebraska–Harold Warp’s Pioneer Village

Man, this man could collect a bunch of stuff. Harold Warp’s Pioneer Village includes an auto museum, a toy collection, a recreated outdoor village with more stuff in each building. You can even watch presentations like the one we saw on broom-making. Not the most intriguing of subjects, but the broom-maker captured our attention with [...]

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