Library Laboratory

Calling all curious minds! Read City and Knox County Public Library invite you to step into the library laboratory to wonder and investigate. 

Join this free event to launch the 2025 Read City USA challenge, 'Curious Minds,' with hands-on fun, demonstrations, special guest appearance by Mayor Jacobs, crafts, and snacks. Investigate a planetarium, experiment with kid-friendly chemistry, operate a robotic arm, excavate fossils, and examine crawling specimens from the insect zoo.  

Step into the lab at Bridgewater Place, 205 Bridgewater Road, Knoxville. 

On the Science Stage:

10:30 Welcome and STEM Storytime with Mayor Jacobs

11:15 Dr. Al Hazari's Kid-friendly Chemistry

12:00 Open

12:45 Owl Ridge Raptor Center

1:30  Fossils with Hands On! Discovery Center

In the Library Laboratory:

The Muse Knoxville Mobile Planetarium
American Museum of Science and Energy
Webb School of Knoxville Robotics Team
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Keep Knoxville Beautiful
Oak Ridge National Lab
Seven Islands Birding Park
Zoo Knoxville
Knox County Health Department
University of Tennessee Entomology Insect Petting Zoo
Tennessee Civil Air Patrol

With Knox County Public Library:

Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
STEM Fairy Tales
Make and take STEAM Crafts and Activities

Library Laboratory is made possible by a grant from the Jane L. Pettway Foundation.