
Fun at the Amazeum
7/20/2023 | 4m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
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If you haven't already visited the Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville, Arkansas, you should definitely add it to your summer checklist! Museum employee Jacob Andrews gives the scoop on all of the truly amazing things you can do at the museum. From making art, to shopping in the pretend grocery store, to putting on a play with the museum's props and costumes, the Scott Family Amazeum has it all!
Rise and Shine is a local public television program presented by Arkansas PBS

Fun at the Amazeum
7/20/2023 | 4m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
If you haven't already visited the Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville, Arkansas, you should definitely add it to your summer checklist! Museum employee Jacob Andrews gives the scoop on all of the truly amazing things you can do at the museum. From making art, to shopping in the pretend grocery store, to putting on a play with the museum's props and costumes, the Scott Family Amazeum has it all!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle upbeat music) - Hi guys.
I'm Jacob.
I'm be telling you guys a little bit about the Scott Family Amazeum here in Bentonville, Arkansas.
So one of the things we have here at the Amazeum is the art studio.
In this room, we've got all sorts of things relating to art whether that be painting or sculpting or making patterns in sand.
We've got some really cool exhibits in there that are all about getting your hands on, making real art.
We have these giant walls that you can paint on made of glass.
We have a vertical doodler where you can use buttons to control a drawing up on the wall.
We also have the market here in the Amazeum where you can come in and pretend to shop.
We've got fake produce.
We've got a fake cafe, a fake bakery.
We've a even have registers that you guys can use to check people out so you can learn a little bit what it's like to shop and spend money and feel like you're in a real grocery store.
We have our Nickelodeon play lab where we have a giant like six-foot tall SpongeBob you guys can come and see.
There's all sorts of levers you guys can use to move them around.
We have a giant music tower.
You can fiddle with all the instruments we've got on there, make all sorts of really cool sounds, explore how different things work together when you play on it with your friends.
We have a giant inn, a giant Nickelodeon Inn you guys can walk through and change the colors of.
We have a stop motion animation center where you guys can go and make real life animated movies with stop motion.
We have all sorts of props and little costumes and pieces you guys can use to make your own movies.
Here at the Amazeum, we have the cabin where you guys can go back in time to the pioneer days of early Arkansas.
We have a a cabin with its own cow and apple trees where you guys can go and pick your own apples as well as some other vegetables in the garden.
We also have our water amazement section where you guys can go in and explore all sorts of different ways that water moves around.
You guys can get wet, you can stay dry.
You guys can splash around.
We also have our traveling exhibit area where we periodically switch out the exhibits we have in there.
Right now we have something called building buddies where you guys can go and take on the roll of a construction worker.
You guys can build houses, decorate, lay out a lawn.
The cool thing about that area is that every once in a while, every few months, we switch out what's in there.
We also have our Hershey's lab where you guys can go in and do science experiments using Hershey's Chocolate whether that be using a scale made out of a slinky or racing different chocolate chips to see which one's the fastest.
We have all sorts of cool experiments you guys can use Hershey's candy with.
We also have our tinkering hub where you guys can go in and build all sorts of different contraptions.
You guys can learn a little bit about science, engineering, technology.
All of that is wrapped up in the tinkering hub which we have someone in there every day to help you guide you guys through.
We also have our lift load and hall area which is all about learning to work together.
We've got things that teach you about assembly lines where you can send blocks up and down two stories.
We have these air tubes where you guys can put scarves and little foam balls through and launch them through.
It launches them out at the top and you guys can go and try to catch them.
It's a lot of fun.
We also have a full-size 18-wheeler truck that you guys can go in and sit in the driver's seat.
You can click the buttons.
You can spin the wheel.
It's just like you're in the real thing.
We also have our leaf climbers where you guys can climb all the way to the top of the building and see the whole entire museum from it.
We also have our outdoor play scape where you guys can climb play with chalk.
We even have a small pond and fountain you guys can play in.
We have our cave where you guys can come in and use flashlights to explore what we have in there.
We hear, you can hear the sounds of what a real cave sounds like.
Learn a little bit about the different kinds of caves we have right here in Arkansas and even see some cave creatures.
Well, thank you guys for coming through the museum with me.
If you guys thought that was cool, come check us out.
We're the Scott Family Amazeum here in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Rise and Shine is a local public television program presented by Arkansas PBS