With more than 140 permanent exhibits, this 60,000-square-foot, three-story facility -- which relocated to the Gateway development in 2005 -- is the place for kids of all ages to explore: Children can play a marimba, make a stop-motion animated video, or engineer a paper plane to throw in a wind tunnel. The museum also features a child-size grocery store where kids can be both shoppers and checkers, and an outdoor "flight to life" exhibit with a real helicopter now serving as a simulator. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Allow 1 to 3 hours.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Utah, 7th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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