Exhibit Features Include:

• Apartment Building - Move Curious George on pulleys from window to window, climb the fire escape and go inside to play with color, light and shadow.
• Sidewalk Produce Stand - Be the customer or salesperson and explore shape, sorting, weighing and counting with fruits and vegetables.
• Construction Site - Design a building in the construction trailer, then get to work constructing different structures and using machines to move materials.
• City Park - Have a photo opp with a full-size Curious George! Youngest visitors will enjoy the busywall activities.
• Mini Golf - Use pipes, ramps, funnels, turntables, bumpers and force to experiment with physics and engineering and putt through three holes of mini golf.
• Space Rocket - Climb into the rocket Curious George took on his space adventure!
• Farm - Take a vacation to the farm where you can use wind power to move yard art like whirligigs and windmills. Then build your own whirligig or windsock and care for the farm animals.
• Museum Within the Museum - Learn new things about Curious George as you follow him throughout the years in H.A. and Margret Rey’s work, and learn of their escape from France to safety during World War II that saved the Curious George manuscript.

The exhibit is based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions airing on PBS KIDS®

To visit the Curious George&trade: Let's Get Curious!, visit http://www.pittsburghkids.org/

Curious George airs weekdays at 8:00 am and 3:00pm on WQED-TV. Click here for the full summer schedule.

The CURIOUS GEORGE Web site (pbskids.org/curiousgeorge ) —like the TV series—introduces young kids to key concepts in science, math and engineering in a way that is fun for them and accessible to parents, caregivers and educators.

Web Site Features:

Games
Interactive games featuring Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat:

• Roller Monkey, On the Job, and Cows Don’t Quack: Memory games that match colors, jobs with their corresponding tool, and animal sounds with pictures, respectively.
• Count Your Chickens, Banana 411, How Tall?, and Glass Palace:Number games that encourage counting and size approximation.
• Feed Gnocchi and Big Pictures: Problem-solving and visual identification.

Video clips

• Live-action clips from the series that illustrate real-world
• demonstrations of basic science concepts and problem solving.

Printables

• Fun pictures of Curious George for printing out and coloring in.

* Source: For PBS, NTI Pocketpieces for September 2006. For broadcast, cable, and syndication, Nielsen Galaxy Explorer, September 1-30, 2006.

** Source: PBS’s Visual Sciences.