The Please Touch Museum, a popular children’s museum in Philadelphia, had outgrown its space. Instead of building a new space, the museum moved out of Center City Philadelphia to Fairmount Park and into Memorial Hall, an empty building constructed in the late 19th Century that is three times larger than the museum’s previous location.
To bring the space up to museum standards—and back to life—the joint venture of Daniel J. Keating Co./Bittenbender/McCrae renovated the 157,000-sq-ft Memorial Hall into space for a children’s museum, which not only now holds the previous site’s displays and exhibits but also added exhibits, including a 9,000 sq-ft Carousel House with a reconditioned Denzel Carousel.