Kids Eye View
Experience the world from a child’s perspective in Kid’s Eye View at Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum! This hands-on, child-sized city lets kids explore real-world roles such as shopping in the grocery store, becoming a mechanic, and building in the construction zone. Designed to spark imagination, creativity, and nurture social learning, each exhibit is intentionally created to support essential early childhood development as children learn through play and discover how the world around them works.
Experience the life of a paleontologist through your child’s eyes in our one-of-a-kind exhibit. Kids can dig for fossils, take them to the lab and identify their find under a microscope, interact with real fossils found in Utah, and learn about kids who have actually discovered dinosaurs. It’s a first of its kind exhibit where kids get to be the paleontologist and get to be hands-on with actual fossils and bones!
Choo-choo! The Stillson River Railroad, the biggest train exhibit in the Intermountain West, is here at Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum! This immersive new exhibit invites children and families to explore the magic of trains, from historic locomotives to hands-on train adventures. Whether you’re an engineer in training or love the sound of the whistle, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Climb aboard, and let the journey begin at the Stillson River Railroad! Don’t miss the chance to experience this exciting ride!
Train operating hours are daily at 11:30 AM 2:30 PM, and 4:30PM.
The Bee Garden
The Garden exhibit gallery demonstrates the importance of bees and their connection to Utah. Children and adults work together to keep things buzzing in the Garden exhibits featuring the Honey Climber, the Live Hive, and the 30-foot Pollinator!
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Story Factory
The Story Factory exhibit area offers visitors numerous ways to explore telling a story. Make your own comic strip, learn about social stories, create and perform your own plays on the theater stage, discover the science of color with Colors in Motion or create a picture with our Jumbo Picture Pegs!
Stop by Sensory Room to tickle or relax your body senses through touch boxes, plasma balls, lights, and more.
Intermountain Healthcare Saving Lives
The Saving Lives exhibit features an authentic Life Flight Helicopter, a kid-sized Primary Children’s Emergency Department, and a Life Flight Rescue Hangar. Put your rescue skills to the test as a nurse, surgeon, image tech, pilot, paramedic, command center staff, hoist operator, or an engine mechanic.
Exhibit generously sponsored by Intermountain Healthcare
Utah Jazz Court
All-Star Alliance and Utah Jazz teamed up to celebrate the 2023 All-Star Game with this kid-sized Utah Jazz court, so you too can become a star.
Step onto this mini Utah Jazz court and perfect your shot! Kids can challenge friends or family at the free-throw line while building hand-eye coordination, motor skills, timing, and rhythm. It’s a fun, active way to play, connect with others, and strengthen social skills and family bonds.
Creat something new every day at Discovery Gateway’s Daily Art program! Each day features a fresh, hands-on art project that inspires creativity and self-expression. From painting and sculpture to collage and craft, kids can explore new materials and techniques while creating their own unique masterpieces.
STEAM Lab
STEAM programs offer a wide variety of inquiry-based, participant-focused, and engaging experiences focused on STEAM.
Programs vary from 10–15 minute introductory activities to in-depth 30–60 minute family learning experiences. All our STEAM classes invite children to learn through play. Recommended for children ages 3+ yrs.