Minnesota Children’s Museum is pleased to announce the arrival of the three-dimensional exhibition based on the children’s revolutionary television program—Frontier presents Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?, produced by Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, in collaboration with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street. The traveling exhibition was launched in 1999 as part of Sesame Street’s 30th year celebration and is making its second stop to Minnesota Children’s Museum; it first visited Minnesota in 2002.

Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? leads visitors of all ages through three adventurous decades of the revolutionary children’s television series.  Dozens of interactive components invite children to explore concepts about letters, words, numbers, and issues of diversity.  There are interactives for adults, too.  Those explore why and how the innovative program emerged and developed over the years into an international educational phenomenon.

Experience the Sesame Street set with the famous brownstone facade of 123 Sesame Street.  See yourself on a monitor, as you would appear on the show.  Sit for a while in the bus shelter where you can view the episode that introduced Sesame Street to a national audience in 1969. Follow a timeline stretching through the exhibition to see important milestones in the creation and development of Sesame Street from 1969 to the present.  Travel down Sesame Street and the nation’s history as you visit the Sesame Mucho “Rainbow” Bodega, Gina’s Day Care Center, Oscar’s Newsstand, and Bird Air Travel Agency.

Find out who’s who in the Sesame Street neighborhood.  Come face-to-face with images of  Sesame Street’s long-running human cast and trigger on-demand videos of their memorable moments on the series.  Then visit the Muppet Museum Gallery and learn about the educational significance and purpose of popular Muppet characters. 

With the help of chroma-key technology, you can watch yourself on screen as you count along with The Count, sing the alphabet with Elmo, and count with Rosita in Spanish.

Children and parents will enjoy an educational romp in the Hands-on Minds-on Playground where they can turn a crank, spin letters, and discover new words; count squirrels, butterflies, and other creatures hidden in the counting tree; experiment with notes and scales on a set of steel drums; play with letters in the A–Z cubbyholes beneath the Central Park bridge; and lots more.

Also featured:  Circle in the Square Cinema, where you’ll enjoy fast-paced compilations of enduring episodes of Sesame Street; interactive CD-ROMs that teach about letters and numbers; and a full-sized re-creation of Big Bird’s nest, where kids are invited to curl up and read a good book.

Sesame Street Interactives:

Step onto the Sesame Street set and see yourself in a monitor as you would appear on the television show.

Come play at the Hands-On Minds-On Sesame Street Playground where you can:
play with letters in the A–Z cubbyholes beneath the Central Park Bridge;
learn to play notes and songs on steel drums.
turn a crank, spin letters, and discover new words;
play chess and checkers in the park;
count the animals and objects in the counting tree;
count the movable pigeons on the abacus bar.

Climb into Big Bird’s Same and Different Nest, a full-sized re-creation of Big Bird’s nest, where you can curl up and read a good book.  Big Bird is big.  His nest is big, too.  People come in all sizes.  How big are you? 

Visit the Frontier Telephone Booth and listen to phone messages from popular Sesame Street characters. 
 
Relax at the bus shelter and see the very first episode of Sesame Street.

Appear on screen with one of the famous Sesame Street Muppet characters.  With the help of chroma-key technology, you can count to 20 with The Count, sing the alphabet song with Elmo, or learn Spanish with Rosita.

Visit Platinum Platters Music Shop and hear excerpts from Sesame Street’s greatest hits including the “Sesame Street Theme,” “The People in Your Neighborhood,” “Rubber Duckie,” and “C is for Cookie.”

Shop at the Sesame Mucho “Rainbow” Bodega, where you can place fruits, vegetables, and flowers into bins with matching colors and learn Spanish words for your favorite foods.

At Oscar’s Newsstand you can browse video shorts on fire safety, fitness, sibling rivalry, and other important issues.

Take a seat in the Circle in the Square Cinema (look for Bert and Ernie overhead!) and see five fast-paced compilations of memorable moments from Sesame Street.

Put on a puppet show using Muppet hand puppets—and see your show on a video monitor.

Draw a friend from Sesame Street and hang it in the window of Gina’s Day Care just as the children do on the show.