Article posted: 2/17/2013 6:00 AM

Museum exhibit encourages do-it-yourself

Museum exhibit encourages curious kids to get creative

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With the help of an adult, children get a chance to try out tools in the Tinkering Lab at the Chicago Children's Museum.

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With the help of an adult, children get a chance to try out tools in the Tinkering Lab at the Chicago Children's Museum.

Courtesy of the Chicago Children's Museum

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The new Tinkering Lab exhibit at the Chicago Children's Museum gives kids a chance to take apart items and see how they work and fit together.

Courtesy of the Chicago Children's Museum

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It's not just about producing — sometimes, the real learning can be found in the process. That's a lesson the Chicago Children's Museum is hoping to teach with its newest permanent exhibit, Tinkering Lab, which encourages visitors to design, experiment and create with tools, objects and other loose parts. Inspired by the recent do-it-yourself movement, the just-opened exhibit aims to cultivate the city's future tinkerers, hackers, makers, designers and inventors.