3rd Floor
When you step out of the elevator once you've reached the third floor, you'll see this small video gallery which is the only passive experience in the museum.
What is First Words?
The Schwarzman Family Library is the place to go on the second floor to see your favorite classics come to life! But unlike this one, not all libraries have a secret door. This library's secret door leads to this place
What is a poetry nook?
The exhibit I'm Sold! teaches about the power of advertising and what techniques copywriters use in their ads through a large spiral. The spiral teaches 5 techniques, the first of which is this
What is double meaning?
The celebration of language doesn't have to start when you walk in! Before you enter the doors to the museum, on your left you will find this motion-activated art installation.
What is the Speaking Willow?
"'I didn't know I was going to have to eat my words,' objected Milo."
What is The Phantom Tollbooth?
Are you a fan of solving mysteries and puzzles? If so, be sure to visit this place on the third floor labeled as "a word-sleuthing adventure".
What is Lexicon Lane?
What is Guess the Phrase?
Words Matter, of course! Hear other people's stories about how words changed their lives in this exhibit. You also get to answer word-related prompts on sticky notes. One of the side experiences here is focused on this type of problem
What are word-finding problems?
The year the museum opened
When was 2020?
"Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping."
What is Tuck Everlasting?
You may not know this, but the Planet Word building used to be Franklin School. When it was, the Spoken World exhibit on the third floor used to be this kind of room
What is an auditorium?
Paint with words and transform the world around you in the Word Worlds exhibit. If you overlap tempestuous with hibernal, it snows, but you get this if you overlap hibernal with nocturnal
What are the Northern Lights?
Are all these words making you hungry for some international cuisine? Fear not, because if you head down the stairs from the first floor, you'll wind up at this restuarant.
What is Immigrant Food+?
The owner of the museum
Who is Ann Friedman?
"Cecile wasn't in her living room, which meant she was in her kitchen."
What is One Crazy Summer?
What is "fish with a pig snout"?
Song-writing techniques used by various artists are showcased as you sing songs karaoke-style in Unlock the Music. This is the mostly chosen song in the exhibit
What is Let it Go?
Wish you could walk away with some Planet Word merchandise? Then after your visit to the exhibits, be sure to check out this location behind the check-in desk on the first floor.
What is the Present Perfect Gift Shop?
Doesn't the Spoken World room look beautiful enough that you would want to host events there? If they do, the giant globe in the middle retracts and becomes this
What is a chandelier?
"Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of a light."
What is The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
After seeing how babies learn to talk in First Words, you will enter the exhibit "Where Do Words Come From?", which features an interactive wall of words. Shout this word into the microphone to learn how it came from the Arabic word for dice.
What is hazard?
Lend Me Your Ears because this exhibit's all about delivering speeches! Here you get to re-deliver a famous speech with a teleprompter and discover what made it memorable. This is the mostly chosen speech in the exhibit
What is Mufasa's Circle of Life speech from the Lion King?
The first thing you will (or will not) see before you walk to the check-in desk is Planet Word's automatic short story dispenser. To find what story you want, you can pick from these three categories.
What are Children's, Poetry, and Classics?
In Word Worlds, the airplane in the mural is more than just an airplane. When it loops through "surreal", it becomes a dragon, and it becomes a magic carpet when it passes "magical". This is what the airplane becomes when it flies through "nostalgic".
What is a blimp?
What is The People Could Fly?