Whether you’re capturing the culture of your community or the history of the world, enhance the museum or cultural center experience with a custom play space. Fill the moment with wonder, while standing out from the competition for attention with an installation that will bring families back again and again.

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Custom Museum Play Areas from Soft Play

Are you ready to excite more visitors at your museum? Consider adding a playground. When you choose to outfit your museum with playground equipment from Soft Play, you can:

  • Promote active play for kids of all abilities
  • Attract and retain families
  • Increase ROI
  • Stand out from the competition
  • Enhance branding and theming efforts

For those with a grand vision, our custom playgrounds are built from the ground up, bringing any dream play environment to life. All our designs are crafted to ignite children’s imaginations and create unforgettable experiences.

Some of our solutions include:

  • Contained play areas: Tested structures designed to get kids moving and thinking creatively. Choose from ready-made options or work with us to develop a tailored layout that fits your park’s unique identity.
  • Themed indoor play sculptures: Made from soft sculpted foam, kids can play on their favorite animals and characters, and improve imaginative and sensorial skills.
  • Themed outdoor play structures: Built with hard-coated glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP), our weather-resistant art park play sculptures are lightweight and easy to maintain.

If you’re interested in ordering high-quality, durable indoor playground equipment for your museum, Soft Play is ready to help. For over 40 years, our team of designers has assisted property developers, architects, owners and managers in designing commercial indoor playgrounds tailored for specific space and budget needs.

Why Choose Soft Play for Your Museum?

At Soft Play, we have experience creating over 40,000 playgrounds across more than 60 countries. When you choose us, you can expect:

  • Unmatched customization: With Soft Play, you can build one-of-a-kind landmarks that become photo-worthy icons for your facility.
  • High standards for safety and durability: Soft Play adheres to safety and accessibility standards, such as ASTM, CPSIA and ADA, and uses commercial-grade materials for high-traffic environments.
  • Global expertise and local service: We balance global leadership with the hands-on care of a dedicated project manager who understands the nuances of museum operations.
  • End-to-end partnership: Soft Play is more than a vendor — we’re a partner that stays with your museum from the first sketch through play area maintenance and future expansions.

Planning Your Museum Play Exhibit

Soft Play offers comprehensive planning services for your playground design and installation. We utilize space strategically, integrating play structures into existing architectural footprints without disrupting traffic flow. We work with architects and facility managers to make this possible.

Design your museum’s theme as an exhibit and extension of the museum’s educational narrative, including history, science and nature. We can even incorporate spaces for mixed-age groups with distinct zones. Play exhibits can be an active gross-motor play for older kids and a sensory-safe zone for toddlers, extending dwell time for the whole family.

Our turnkey project management handles all the logistics for your project, so you don’t have to. From the initial 3D rendering to the final installation, we can reduce the burden on museum staff and bring your vision to life.

Financing Your Museum Playground

Funding is often one of the biggest hurdles for nonprofits and museums. Financing is a tool to bridge the gap between grant cycles and immediate needs, helping you fund the playground while keeping cash reserves free for other operational expenses or exhibit acquisitions.

A playground can also act as a revenue driver that increases membership sales, birthday party bookings and repeat visits. In this way, the playground can effectively pay for itself over time.

Soft Play offers lease-purchasing programs through trusted partnerships. We have representatives from these companies who can help you create a personalized financing program tailored to your museum’s needs.

Get Started With Soft Play Today

Whether you want to expand an existing playground or build from scratch, Soft Play is here to help. Reach out to our team today to get started.

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What they’re saying

We worked with Soft Play to design and install a custom two story climbing structure at our new Discovery Place KIDS museum. They worked with our designers and architects to build a structure that is accessible by both children and adults to encourage family interaction within the museum. Our guests are enjoying the structure very much and in the first year, the museum is exceeding our visitor and membership expectations.”

Debbie Curry Director, Discovery Place KIDS, Huntersville NC

This is really the centerpiece to the building. [The play structure] is full of energy. It’s a space that has a lot of excitement and a lot of fun. The energy [Soft Play] brings to the table is reflected in the final result. For us, it was really exciting that we felt we were a part of that design, but also that Soft Play was bringing a ton to the table with their own expertise and own ideas and design energy.

Jen, LEED AP BD+C, Senior Associate, Hobbs, New Mexico