Tot*Spot is the perfect place for our youngest guests to play and grow their brains.
Tot*Spot is designed to engage children ages 0-2 in meaningful experiences that encourage active play. This infant through toddler-friendly space fosters your child’s brain development through discovery, sensory exploration, experimentation, social communication, problem solving and imaginative play. The many interactives will grab their attention and keep them busy!
On-site nursing station available.
If you enjoy Tot* Spot you'll love our Toddler Trail! Toddler Trail is filled with activities that you and your toddler can do in all our galleries. All of the activities help your tot develop key executive functions essential in childhood development.
Toddler Trail in English
Sendero Para Pequeñitos en Español
CONSIDER WEARING A MASK
Feeling sick? Come back when you feel better. Exposed to someone with COVID-19 in the last 7 days? Please visit us another day. We remain committed to the safety of children, visitors, and our staff and follow CDC guidelines. As we continue to monitor updates, we will adjust our policies as needed.
Tot*Spot has been thoughtfully designed to address developmental milestones of children ages 0-2. The space features many opportunities for infants and toddlers to interact and focus on language, literacy, social-emotional, motor and cognitive development.
Tot*Spot is also meant to be an interactive experience between the parent/caregiver and the infant/toddler as each interaction will create moments of creativity, imagination, expression and discovery. The Museum continuously integrates and promotes key executive functions of the brain; those functions are filtering distractions, prioritizing tasks, goal-setting and achieving and controlling impulses.
Explore our calendar to discover a comprehensive list of toddler events, and join us for Mommy Mingle every first Friday of the month during the school year.
“It has been amazing to see the difference in how she now observes and plays with the manipulatives, from crawling to navigating the staircases. If you have a membership and come frequently, you don’t even have to buy toys at home.”
Toddlers place scarves into the blower and watch as they flow through a labyrinth of tubes, eventually blasting out and floating through the air just waiting for your toddler to catch.
Children of all ages, including those too old for Tot*Spot, are invited to go out onto the balcony and engage in fun, imaginative play with playscapes and pedal cars!
Exercise self-discovery, expression and creativity as families role-play with an artfully created and toddler-friendly floor-to-ceiling mural of a forest with a pond and forest friends as the backdrop.
For the safety of our youngsters, children over the age of 2 are not permitted in Tot*Spot.
Children with disabilities are allowed to enter Tot*Spot regardless of the age.
Caretakers, who are not parents, must be 16+ to accompany infant/toddler in Tot*Spot.
Please limit cellphone usage so that you and your baby have an optimal experience.
Visitors must remove shoes or wear surgical shoe covers in order to enter the exhibit.
Click here for more information about our cleaning procedures and other frequently asked questions.
Kathrine G. McGovern/McGovern Foundation
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