Museum Without Walls

Bring OCM learning and fun to your event with Museum Without Walls and event booths

Museum Without Walls takes OCM beyond the Museum and into schools, festivals, STEM nights, community gatherings, and other local events. Through hands-on activities and traveling exhibit experiences, kids can build, experiment, investigate, and play right where they are. Experiences can include favorites like our Traveltron ball tubes and Children’s Hospital Nursery, plus interactive activities featuring bubbles, engineering, coding, fossils, and more. 

Event Booths

Bring a hands-on OCM activity to your school, festival, business event, or community gathering. Kids can stop by, explore at their own pace, and try an activity led by the Omaha Children’s Museum team. 

Bubbles
Kids can create bubbles of different shapes and sizes using bubble wands and bubble solution. 

Bugs & Beeswax
Using hand lenses, kids can examine real insects preserved in resin and learn more about the bugs on display. They can also roll a sheet of beeswax into a candle to take home. 

Wind Tunnel
Kids can engineer their own flying creations using string, pipe cleaners, coffee filters, and other materials, then test their designs in a fan-powered wind tunnel to see how they move through the air. 

Amazing Mice
A robotic mouse and a maze teach kids the basics of coding. They’ll program the mouse by creating a sequence of commands — moving forward, backward, and turning left and right — to guide the mouse to its destination. 

Garden in a Glove
Kids can learn what seeds need to grow as they create a small garden inside a clear glove using bean seeds, cotton balls, and water. They can take their garden home, hang it near a window, and watch for sprouts. 

Fossil Discovery
OCM’s collection of fossil models and dinosaur bones gives kids a closer look at creatures from the past. Museum staff share more about the fossils and the dinosaurs they represent, and kids can color a paper dinosaur to take home.