A children's museum in downtown Lexington, just added its first new exhibit in a decade.

The addition provides hands on learning designed to encourage kids to explore science, technology, engineering and math.

We sat down with the executive director of the Explore Him, who walked us through all there is to learn.

The mission of the world of Lexington is to create a hands on learning environment that inspires imagination and curiosity.

The New York City family Foundation Engineering Gallery is the heart of what the exploring is all about and the two exhibits that we have in this gallery.

That paper airplane launcher and the imagination.

Building blocks are the quintessential forms of imagination.

We realized we really had a lot of exhibits that catered toward an older elementary school crowd.

And so that that was sort of the beginning inception phase of what we were trying to accomplish.

This new gallery is part of a longer journey for the experience and the new chapter of our organization.

And this is the first step, step in action for people to see what our organization's future goals and vision are so far.

And this this calendar year are the highest attendance numbers we've seen in roughly ten years.

And so what that tells us is that there is a desire and need for a great children's museum in this city and for this community.

Not only that, I think that it's telling us that our community has noticed the improvements that we've made.

And I believe that that's that's what we're seeing in our numbers right now.

The vast majority of the museum experience now is it's a lot of arts and humanities basics exhibits.

And we have some gravity in motion, but we really thought that we needed to hit more of a STEM based gallery experience.

And that's that's really what we chose.

Museums are all about is letting your imagination take you so that you get to learn through that play experience.

You can learn more about the explore him on their website.

Explore IMDB.com.

The Children's museum is closed on Mondays.