Hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | Fri. & Sat. till 8 p.m.
The Strong National Museum of Play is a highly interactive, collections-based museum devoted to the history and exploration of play.
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Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
3…2…1…Happy (Almost) New Year! Countdown to noon and celebrate the beginning of the last 12 hours of 2025 with a dance party! 11:55 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Wilson […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Make a building, landscape, or structure and add it to the ever-growing Holiday village! Come back throughout break week to see how the village grows!
Chill Out with Dairy! American Dairy Association North East’s winter farm pop-up returns to The Strong, offering hands-on farm play and dairy-powered nutrition education. Children […]
Celebrate the joy of reading! Hear children’s stories read aloud on select Mondays at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and be whisked away on literary adventures […]
Learn how to finger crochet, make pom-poms, and use your imagination to create a fabric collage!
Celebrate the joy of reading! Hear children’s stories read aloud on select Mondays at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and be whisked away on literary adventures […]
Learn how to finger crochet, make pom-poms, and use your imagination to create a fabric collage!
Learn how to finger crochet, make pom-poms, and use your imagination to create a fabric collage!
Learn how to finger crochet, make pom-poms, and use your imagination to create a fabric collage!
Learn how to finger crochet, make pom-poms, and use your imagination to create a fabric collage!
Explore The Strong’s newest exhibit and enjoy some gooey and grimy activities throughout the museum! Gross Performance, 1 p.m., Paychex Theater Enjoy a gross out science show Slimy Sensory Bin, Play Lab Dig your hands […]
Enjoy The Strong before it opens to the public at an exclusive event designed for guests with special sensory, developmental, or physical needs. Explore the […]
Explore The Strong’s newest exhibit and enjoy some gooey and grimy activities throughout the museum! Gross Performance, 1 p.m., Paychex Theater Enjoy a gross out science show Slimy Sensory Bin, Play Lab Dig your hands […]
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Join us in celebrating the memory and continuing the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to create a world full of compassion. The Courage of Oz, 12:30 […]
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Join the Eastman Community Music School for a family-friendly performance followed by a question-and-answer session with the musicians. Each performance lasts approximately 20 minutes and […]
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Use fabric to create a puppet to put on a puppet show for your friends and family!
Celebrate the joy of reading! Hear children’s stories read aloud on select Mondays at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and be whisked away on literary adventures […]
The Heart of the Matter: Victorian Valentine Traditions Where would we be without Valentines? In the 19th century, Valentine’s Day could bring elaborate cards drenched […]
Explore the Woodbury School’s classrooms, meet staff, and have your questions answered at the Woodbury School’s open house. No registration required. Families should enter through […]
Get your body moving and celebrate the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics with these Olympic themed activities! Snowboard Balance Board, Adams Atrium Test your balance and see if […]
Gather your friends and enjoy an evening of play exclusively for college students! Play your way through the history of electronic games and pinball machines, […]
Play and learning go hand in hand as students conceptualize, design, and create an original computer game. Led by Dennis McCorry, Digital Games Hub Coordinator […]
The Strong Museum is the ultimate play destination for all ages! With nearly 150,000 square feet of dynamic, interactive exhibit space, The Strong provides entertaining, educational, and unforgettable intergenerational fun.
Opening January 17
Based on the best-selling book Grossology, the exhibit uses sophisticated animatronics and imaginative interactives to tell you the good, the bad, and the downright ugly about runny noses, body odor and much more.
A visit to The Strong is not complete without a stop in Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden, the only year-round indoor butterfly garden in upstate New York.
Let your imagination soar! Be an astronaut, rescue pilot, construction worker, actor, and more in The Strong’s original, permanent Imagination Destination exhibit. Role-play in inspiring spaces bursting with physical challenges, such as a rescue helicopter, construction site, rocket ship, and theater.
Museum News
The Strong's National Toy Hall of Fame inducts Battleship, Slime, and Trivial Pursuit.
Museum News
The Strong launches an online exhibit in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, Insert Coin to Start: A History of Arcade Video Games in the 1970s.
The Strong owns and cares for the world's most comprehensive collection of toys, dolls, board games, video games, other electronic games, books, documents, and other historical materials related to play.
Access thousands of objects from the museum's online database.
Search design documents, personal papers, and other archival materials.
Explore periodicals, books, comic books, and other holdings from The Strong's research library.
Thousands of artifacts from The Strong’s collections are available to researchers by appointment.
Become a champion for play and help make a difference in the lives of the children and families who play, learn, and grow with The Strong.
In play a child always behaves beyond his average age, above his daily behavior. In play it is as though he were a head taller than himself.”
Visit a highly interactive, collections-based museum devoted to the history and exploration of play.
