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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INDIANAPOLIS (January 29, 2024) – Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out, the first interactive exhibit based on the award-winning Disney and Pixar’s hit animated feature Inside Out, is coming to the world’s largest children’s museum on February 3rd, 2024.
The exhibit is filled with interactive experiences that help visitors – young and old - understand the important role emotions, memory and imagination play in our everyday lives. Hands-on and digital experiences focus on the five core emotions featured in the film: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear. Children and families will learn how to recognize emotions and explore how we express and manage our emotions.
Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out opens to the public at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis on February 3 – May 19, 2024.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this impactful exhibit to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis," said Lauren Wesley, exhibits project manager for The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. “Emotions at Play provides children the opportunity to learn more about feelings of fear, joy, anxiety or pain when dealing with a child’s self-management and social emotional wellness skills. The ability for a child to believe it is okay to be me is pivotal in this exhibit.”
In this exhibit, visitors can:
- Step into Headquarters to explore the range and intensity of emotions at the Control Panel
- Explore some of the ways we show how we feel with our faces and bodies at the Emotions Mirrors
- Think about an important memory and how it made them feel - or show how they’re feeling currently by creating a glowing Memory Sphere
- Use their imagination to create a story and perform it at Dream Productions
- Work to keep the train on track – what feelings do you have when you control and balance the Train of Thought?
- Explore how emotions work together as they stack and balance the Emotion Blocks
The exhibit will be at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis from Feb. 3 – May 19, 2024 and is free with Museum admission. Visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets at childrensmuseum.org.
Emotions at Play with Pixar’s Inside Out was developed by Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. Local sponsorship provided by presenting sponsor CollegeChoice 529 with support from Primrose Schools of Indianapolis Metro.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is proud to partner with Riley Children’s Health, Old National Bank, Ice Miller LLP, and The Heritage Group.
About The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
We ignite joy, wonder and curiosity by creating powerful learning experiences for children and adults. For more information about The Children's Museum, visit www.childrensmuseum.org and follow us on Twitter @TCMIndy, Instagram@childrensmuseum, YouTube.com/IndyTCM and Facebook.
About Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is a place that delights and inspires children, where they can take off on fantastic flights of imagination daily, and return to earth to splash in a river, hammer a nail and ink a silkscreen. With 80,000 square feet of space, the Museum welcomes more than 307, 000 visitors annually and provides tons of fun and loads of “real stuff” experiences for play and learning. The Museum was voted one of the nation’s Ten Best Museums for Families in USA Today’s Reader’s Choice Contest in 2017, and named one of the nation’s fifteen top children’s museums by Parents Magazine in 2015. In April 2019, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Museum opened MuseumLab™, a new museum for older kids, in the former Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny next door. This project transformed a historic landmark on Pittsburgh’s North Side and completed what is now the nation’s the largest cultural campus for children.
About Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. The Northern California studio has created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars,” “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille,” “WALL•E,” “Up,” “Toy Story 3,” “Inside Out,” “Coco” and “Luca.” Its movies and technology have won more than 40 Academy Awards® and its films have grossed billions at the worldwide box office.
About Inside Out
Pixar’s hit animated feature Inside Out is the story of 11-year-old Riley, who like all of us, is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco as Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive. Inside Out was released in 2015.
