Event Details
Guests and museum members are encouraged to purchase/reserve tickets in advance:
Tinkerfest is a celebration of curiosity and creativity that allows guests of all ages to explore how things work through hands-on activities. Activities include car takeaparts, robotics, water play, circuits and more! Guests to Tinkerfest 2021 built by Kiewit-Massman will enjoy an estimated 35 activities.
- DIY Wind Chimes
- Magnet Play + Materials
- Pulley Power
- Matchbox Car Ramps
- Tinkering with Animatronics
- Measuring & Pouring
- Robo Sumo
- Bridge Building
- Shrinking Plastics
- Laser Table
- Screen Printing
- Drones
- Cardboard Construction
- Toy & Enrichment Making for Museum Animals
- Tool Jigsaw Puzzle
- Felt Farm
- Percussion Play
- Floor is Lava
- PVC Percussion
- Car Take Apart
- Traffic Flow Simulator
- Equipment Rodeo with Kiewit-Massman
- Technology Show & Tell
- Overpass Bridge Construction
- Water Rockets
- FrankenToys
- Scribble Bots
- “Can you Gear me now?”
- Pipe Water Towers
- Energy Management with Water
- Bee Town – Pollinators
- Bee Bots
- Tinkering Egg Crate Flowers
- Large Lincoln Logs
- Circuit Blocks
- Catapulting Paper Airplanes
With new COVID-19 cases still prevalent in Arkansas, the Museum of Discovery is taking precautions to make Tinkerfest 2021 a safe event. That’s why we are selling tickets for specific entry times – 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. We took this timed-ticket approach for the four smaller Tinkerfests in 2020, and it helped regulate the flow of people entering the site. However, we never had to enforce the two-hour limit, meaning at 11 a.m. we didn’t have to ask the 9 a.m. group to leave and same at 1 p.m. with the 11 a.m. group. We reserve the right to enforce the two-hour limit if the event gets overly crowded, but with a larger site and 350 tickets sold for each of the timeslots, we don’t anticipate having to enforce the two-hour limit.
Tinkerfest events are included in the museum’s regular daily admission: $10 for adults, $8 for children 1-12 and free for infants younger than 1. Seniors, teachers, Little Rock city employees and active and retired military are admitted for $8. SNAP recipients plus an additional five people are admitted for $2.
Guests and museum members are encouraged to purchase/reserve tickets in advance:
Thank you to our Tinkerfest Sponsors!
