“Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit”
December 11 2024
Opens at Boston Children’s Museum on January 18, 2025
Boston Children’s Museum is proud to present “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit” from January 18 – May 4, 2025. Created by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in partnership with Fred Rogers Productions, this exhibit is based on the award-winning PBS KIDS television series that follows the adventures of 4-year-old Daniel Tiger and his friends. The partnership sought to connect the familiar TV world, where young viewers learn and find comfort with Daniel, to the three-dimensional, multi-sensory experience the exhibit provides.
In present “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit” children ages 2 to 6 enter the world of Daniel Tiger and friends to explore the Neighborhood. Through immersive experiences, visitors collaborate to solve problems, use their imaginations to transform their surroundings and play along with Daniel’s singable strategies as they learn life’s little lessons.
“We really wanted to create the feeling for the kids that they’re really coming into the Neighborhood of Make-believe, and Daniel is inviting them to play,” explains Anne Fullenkamp, Director of Design for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
Exhibit elements include an Imagination Stage, where kids can put on costumes of series characters and step onto the stage to act; The Music Shop, where children can express themselves through unusual instruments; The Post Office, where they can sort, deliver and receive packages and letters; and a Thank You Tree, where visitors can write or draw thank-you notes and put them on the tree.
“Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit” brings to life the themes presented in the PBS series such as community, communication, and emotions, which enables young children to understand their feelings and those of their neighbors. Visitors can walk the paths and hear the sounds of Daniel’s world as they encounter the meaning of empathy, gratitude, sharing and diversity in an environment of creative and interactive play. Through music, kids can also sing along with Daniel, work together to solve problems, and even experience the contagious nature of kindness.
“Daniel speaks directly to children, and he is their age,” notes Paul Siefken, President and Chief Executive Officer with Fred Rogers Productions. “Because of that, they see him as their friend, and he goes through a lot of the challenges that they face, whether it’s dealing with mad feelings or learning how to share.”
Along with the emotional lessons gleaned in the neighborhood, visitors can:
- Transform into to a favorite character with masks and costumes
- Compose a song or play along with one-of-a-kind instruments
- Visit the Post Office and sort, deliver, and receive packages and letters
- Create stories through the Character Mural
- Step inside the Clock Factory to play with a variety of clocks
- Write or draw thank-you notes and put them on the Thank You Tree
- Cozy up with a good book in O the Owl’s Reading Nest
- Stroll with a Trolley along the path and ring the bell upon arrival!
“For kids to go into Daniel’s world and this exhibit and feel like they are part of the Neighborhood is very, very exciting,” Siefken adds. “They feel like he is one of them.”
“Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: A Grr-ific Exhibit” continues its multi-year run as a traveling exhibit in Boston and is scheduled to appear in four more North American cities through December 2026.
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