Please Touch Pop Art

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The Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park might be, arguably, the best kids museum on earth (museum seems like too small a word, too limiting… a multi-sensory experience is more like it, but too marketing jargon-y… perhaps one of those old –ara words like Sensorama is the most apt….) It also happens to be an endless where can you buy vicodin legally fantasia of oversized, Claus Oldenburg-y, Koons-y pop art constructions… rockets, disco balls, cars both miniature and over-sized, a squished Septa bus, a functioning supermarket, junk sculpture, and an astro-turf draped staging of Alice’s Wonderland… acres of pop eye candy in an absurdly grand frosted layer cake of a building…