The first thing visitors see as they
walk through the front door is EDDIE®, the museum's
centerpiece and world's largest child. He is impossible to
miss. A 40-foot, 17.5-ton, hands-on exhibit, EDDIE is made
of reinforced, molded plastic and is large enough for adults
and children to climb in and through.
EDDIE®, the world's largest child.
Explore EDDIE
You can climb his vertebrae to his brain, crawl through his
heart, bounce around inside his stomach and slide out his
intestines. As a model of learning through immersion, EDDIE
allows children to use their gross motor skills to discover
what's inside their bodies. When crafting EDDIE as the typical 10-year-old boy, educators wanted EdVenture's ambassador to be
representative of all the people of South Carolina. Using a cross section of children
as models, features were lifted from each and combined to create an amalgamation of the
many people seen in our state.
Like all of EdVenture's exhibits, EDDIE is a barrier-free exhibit for easy access and sits
in the middle of the museum in his own atrium opposite the front door. There's nothing like
him anywhere else in the world! In his hand he holds a dragonfly (named 'Flutter' by the
youngsters at Heathwood Hall during EdVenture's "The Dragonfly Needs a Name Contest.").
EDDIE is twice the size of the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials in Washington, D.C. and weighs as
much as the combined student bodies of Burton/Pack and Carver/Lyon Elementary Schools.
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