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Discover, Learn & Create at the
PHELPS YOUTH PAVILION

Children's Museum Hours

Wednesday – Saturday | 10:00AM – 4:00PM &
Sunday | 1:00 – 4:00PM


3rd Thursdays: The PYP will be open from 10:00AM - 8:00PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month during the fall and winter season. 


Admission is $5 per person or $2 with the presentation of a valid EBT card for up to 4 people. WCA members are free

WHERE ART LAUNCHES A WORLD OF WONDER, DISCOVERY & LEARNING!
The Phelps Youth Pavilion is a split-level children’s museum filled with creative, hands-on experiences, from simple drawing and painting projects always available in our Arts Workshop to magical high-tech adventures and a climbable Playscape for young ones to traverse.
DRAW & LEARN
Visitors immerse themselves in exhibitions relating to Grant Wood’s early life and paintings that have been reproduced for digital and tangible experiences. Other interactive exhibits available that encourage children to draw and learn about other cultures.
CLIMB & PLAY 
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Additionally, the Phelps Playscape is just around the corner offering a large jungle gym for kids to climb and play and go between gallery spaces. 
TRAVEL THE WORLD
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Children have the opportunity to star in their own plays on stage or take a stroll through a mini town intended to teach visitors of other worldly cultures or adventure
JUNIOR ART GALLERY
DINOSAUR RUCKUS
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See real fossils in our exhibit, DINOSAUR RUCKUS! Children can stomp through the exhibition dressed like a dinosaur while they have fun learning about art, math and our prehistoric Earth.
UP COMING EXHIBIT
PUMPKINS, PIGS & PIRATES: TALES OF ARTHER GEISERT
On View Beginning March, 1 2025 Junior Art Gallery III
An interactive new display inspired by award-winning children's book author and Iowa artist, Arther Geisert!
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Celebrating a Birthday? Spend it with Us

Create special memories with your family at your Phelps Youth Pavilion Birthday Party! Plan to bring one adult for every six children. Become a member and receive a discounted birthday party! 

 

Bronze | $120

Includes birthday child, 15 children and 3 adults
– Use of a private room for 2 hours
– All day access to the Pavilion
– Self-directed birthday craft kit

Silver | $160

Includes birthday child, 20 children and 4 adults
– Use of a private room for 2 hours with a Birthday Buddy staff member
– All day access to the Pavilion
– A fun make-and-take birthday craft during your party

Gold | $280

Includes birthday child, 30 children and 5 adults
– Includes everything in the Silver Package PLUS free passes for each child for a return visit

– Access to a refrigerator and freezer

Birthday Party Inquiries
Please contact Angie Hickok at 319-291-4490
or send an email to angie.hickok@waterloo-ia.org

SCHOOL & GROUP TOURS
Pre-arrange a guided tour for your group (Kids or Adults) and save! 
Minimum of 12 per group 
Free admission for Waterloo Public Schools
$1/person - All other public schools 
$3/person - Private schools & daycares
Bus funds available through the Guernsey Foundation to qualifying schools
UP COMING EVENTS
  • Frosty & Friends!
    Frosty & Friends!
    Sun, Dec 08
    Waterloo
    Dec 08, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Waterloo, 225 Commercial St, Waterloo, IA 50701, USA
    Join Frosty and his friends for crafts and an ice cream sundae!
  • Noon Year's Party
    Noon Year's Party
    Tue, Dec 31
    Waterloo
    Dec 31, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Waterloo, 225 Commercial St, Waterloo, IA 50701, USA
    You're invited to a Noon Year's Party for kids!
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