About Kaleideum
Kaleideum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was reimagined and rebuilt in 2024. Sitting at nearly 70,000 square feet and four stories, Kaleideum is filled with exhibition galleries and an expansive rooftop play experience. The building is inspired by the geometric forms and triangulated shapes captured in a kaleidoscope and is grounded in the idea of experiencing spaces and places from diverse perspectives. This children’s museum features indoor and outdoor exhibits, hosts parties and events, makes a perfect birthday party venue, hosts camps, and field trips, and provides a safe space for kids and families to explore and grow together.
Kaleideum Downtown Exhibits
By Design
Construct a building, craft pottery, model furniture, code a dance routine, or design a tattoo. This area is great for tactile visitors and those with an eye for art. Here you can dream about how you will leave your mark on our city, county, and beyond!
In Motion
In this exhibit, you can build a roller coaster, explore kinetic movement in motion capture labs, build a race car, or ride a bike to generate electricity. Get energized by learning about the physics behind the way things move. This area also has areas to play trivia, show your artistic side and imagination.
Our Nature
Zoom in on bird feathers or reptile scales, explore time-lapse videos of natural processes and pretend you’re a wildlife veterinarian. In Our Nature, you’ll be surrounded by animals and nature as you investigate the constant change and surprising connections among life on Earth. This exhibit is a hit for anyone big or small who loves the outdoors and animals.
Wonders Of Water
Experience water in all its forms by controlling a waterfall, or a whirlpool, sculpting an ice block, and playing with light in a tunnel of fog. Color your fish and make it swim in a digital aquarium, see live fish, and paint with water on a slate wall. The water is recycled and treated, so this is one place where it’s OK to let the water flow! This area even has seats for your youngest visitors to sit and play safely with water. Feel free and grab a jacket to keep yourself dry.
Climb into a cozy play space for babies, crawlers, new walkers, and their caregivers. With a right-sized slide, play mats for tummy time, live fish, and comfy chairs, this is a relaxing space full of natural light and soft surfaces. This area also features a private mother’s room for pumping, changing, or feeding and also has convenient family restrooms right outside.
Create an animation, tell a tale with shadow puppets, invent sound effects, and practice the science of reading and phonetics with a letter-munching dragon. Experience the transformative power of telling your own story as you are transported to new worlds. For your tech-savvy children, they can control the lights and sounds while a play/performance goes on.
Travel through space, tour the human body, explore Earth’s geography, experience a laser light show, or dive into an immersive movie in this planetarium-like experience. In this learning environment, you’ll go places you never imagined and feel like you are there!
This exhibit is perfect for your arts and crafts-loving children. Create your own work of art, spell, build, and experience while seeing beautiful skyline views of Winston-Salem! Experience all of this and more in this changing space with activities such as painting, construction, theater, robotics, ceramics, sketching, and so much more!
Climb the one-of-a-kind play structures and stand on the top of our city! A bridge makes this outdoor experience accessible to all. Use the rooftop track as you take in the city’s skyline. Spin on cocoon swings or travel down a slide. Rooftop Adventure delivers play and rejuvenation for children and adults alike.
Kaleideum Downtown Admission
General Admission
Adults: $15
Youth (1-19): $12
Seniors (62+): $13
Ages 11 Months and Under Free
Members: Free
Museums for All: $3
NC sales tax will be added to admission prices
Learn more about saving on your visits with membership.
Kaleideum Hours
School-Year Hours
Kaleideum is open to the public on weekends during the school year.
Monday: 9 a.m. – Noon (Members Only Starting April 1, 2024)
Tuesday-Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
First Fridays: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. (Starting April 1, 2024)
Second Saturdays (Evening Hours Adults Only): 6-9 p.m. (Starting April 1, 2024
Summer Hours
Monday-Friday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Memorial Day to Labor Day.
If you have any questions about hours or admission, please call (336) 767-6730, ext 1000, or email info@kaleideum.org.
Kaleideum Field Trips & Groups
Kaleideum offers virtual and on-site educational programs that will fascinate your students with exciting hands-on activities that correspond with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and Development.
- For a school-year field trip, fill out and submit the online School-Year Field Trip Registration Form.
- For a summer field trip, fill out and submit the online Public and Summer Group Field Trip Registration Form. A Kaleideum scheduler will contact you when your Registration Form is received.
- For questions, please email scheduling@kaleideum.org.
- Your field trip or group visit to Kaleideum is not confirmed until you receive a confirmation letter from the Kaleideum scheduler. Please bring this confirmation letter with you to present to the front desk when you come.
- If you do not receive your letter within two weeks of booking your visit, or you have any questions, please contact Tracey Fulp via email at scheduling@kaleideum.org or phone at (336) 714-7104.
